Problem Making Win 7 Boot USB

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  1. uffbros

    uffbros MDL Senior Member

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    #1 uffbros, Sep 29, 2017
    I have done this a hundred times but I am not getting my USB to boot from the drive. I use Rufus to make the bootable drive from a good bootable .iso. I format it with MBR partition scheme for bios or uefi. My computer has secure boot bios..so I disable secure boot and enable legacy in bios. The drive is formatted NTFS because Fat32 can't have a .wim over 4GB...This bootable does. Why doesn't my USB flash drive show up in the boot menu? What am I doing wrong? It works if I make it for UEFI when I'm doing a Wind 10 GPT scheme and formatting fat32?
     
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    uffbros MDL Senior Member

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    #2 uffbros, Sep 29, 2017 (OP)
    Trial and error I figured it out. I had to select the option from Rufus that says "MBR partition scheme for UEFI" The first option says for UEFI as well so why didn't it work?
     
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    #3 atgpud2003, Sep 30, 2017
    I been using Rufus tools and never had problem, All I use FAT32 8GB or less on USB Flash.. works for me.
     
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    #4 xman charl, Sep 30, 2017
    think UEFI is not supported for win 7


    Charl
     
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    #5 Enthousiast, Oct 2, 2017
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    I just format the USB FAT32 and extract the iso to it's root.
    It should work when you split the install.wim into more smaller install.swm's (<4GB), to fit FAT32 max. filesize and follow this guide https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/fixing-a-image-for-uefi.75244/#post-1375604

    Addition: Do you use a kabylake/ryzen based system? Be sure you integrate the proper USB3.x drivers in boot.wim (both indices), to be able to boot the USB install medium.
     
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    #6 LatinMcG, Oct 2, 2017
    if its an hp you need to probably also do the uefi diagnostics on usb if trying to do uefi usb.. it was only way i could get w7x64 or 8 uefi on the hp compaq 2000

    if mbr in rufus check the 0x80 bios in advanced.