28/05/2014

USB Drive from Windows7 USB DVD tool

I just had such an issue trying to create a bootable USB drive on Windows 8.1. Every article online states that you should use the Windows7 USB DVD tool which is easily downloadable from Microsoft. When I tried to install it, it just did nothing. No error messages, nothing. In the end, I opened a command prompt and navigated to my downloads dir and ran:

> Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe /C

Which enabled me to extract the files from the executable and then double-click "setup.cmd" and it installed!

Posting this here in case it helps someone else.

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