[RESOLVED] Create Win 7 ISO DVD

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Originally Posted by Welshjim

All--When you use a "bootable" Win7 OS disk do you go to Install|Repair, and from Repair to Recovery before going to Desktop?

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Yes. When the system boots from the DVD, you go to the Install. The desktop is not involved. Consider booting from the DVD with a brand new empty hard drive - no Windows Desktop exists. The bootable DVD presents the installer. Then if you boot the DVD on a system with Windows installed, the installer notices and offers the Install/Repair options.

So a DVD that does this is bootable.

I've never used the Microsoft Download Tool, but I suspect it is just a dedicated utility mainly intended for creating a bootable USB installer, but it also works with DVDs in case someone is unsure how to use the ISO to create a bootable DVD with whatever burning application their system has.

Platypus--Thanks very much. Good to get a definitive answer!

SpywareDr--
http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/en...-Download-Tool
That link is much clearer than the US one.
I am pretty sure that the need to use the Download Tool to make a bootable DVD/USB thumb drive is only for ISO files purchased from the Microsoft Store.
A quote from the US MS Store site as posted earlier "This tool is only for use with the Windows 7 ISO file purchased from Microsoft Store."
And based on Platypus' post it seems that my ISO files from TechNet and burned by IMGBurnto a DVD are bootable.

I agree with Platypus, "mainly intended for creating a bootable USB". There are many utilities available for burning an .iso back onto a CD/DVD. Not so many for creating a bootable USB flash drive from that same .iso file.