Windows 7 "Platinum"

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Reuploaded the tool,
- Added "Segoe UI Emoji" v1.45 font from Windows 11
- Added MS Edge WebView2 Runtime 109.0.1518.140

 

Like said, the edition shouldn't really matter as long as it's English, SP1, U, Media Refresh, no Office. It's the most "popular" ISO around and thus most available one.
It's easier to tell people "use exactly this one which is easy to find" than to list and test everything that is compatible.
By checking integrity with a checksum, it's also made sure it's exactly correct and not corrupted or whatever, which the ISO creation tools probably wouldn't catch.
The edition is really just a configuration thing. If the release version is the same, the files should be otherwise identical. IIRC it's also possible to change the edition of a live system. It only affects which activation methods can be used and what features are unlocked.

You also kinda answered your own question with this:

So did everyone else. If someone already has a Windows 7 ISO, it's probably the Ultimate one. So it's the first choice to use as base, simple as that.

 

No, you shouldn't add another activation method, it's already done with KMS. Enterprise isn't an OEM SKU anyway, and as such isn't listed as supported by MRP.

That being said, it's of course possible to edit the script, change the edition to something other than Enterprise, remove the KMS parts and use something else instead, but I don't know why anyone would nor should.

 

If you want to easily test this in a VM and have Vagrant and VirtualBox installed, there is a Vagrant box available by using this Vagrantfile:

Spoiler: Vagrantfile

Code:

# Windows 7 Enterprise x64

# config
BOX_CPU_COUNT     = "2"                # cpu count
BOX_RAM_MB        = "8192"             # RAM in megabytes
BOX_HOSTONLY_NET  = true               # enable host-only network adapter
BOX_HOSTONLY_IP   = "192.168.56.101"   # host-only network adapter ip
BOX_USER_NAME     = "win7"             # admin account name
BOX_USER_PASSWORD = "123"              # admin account password

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-vbguest") then
    config.vbguest.auto_update = false
  end

  config.vm.box = "anzz1/win7x64"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", BOX_RAM_MB]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", BOX_CPU_COUNT]
  end

  if BOX_HOSTONLY_NET == true
    config.vm.network "private_network", ip: BOX_HOSTONLY_IP
  end

  config.vm.communicator = "winrm"
  config.winrm.username = BOX_USER_NAME
  config.winrm.password = BOX_USER_PASSWORD

  config.vm.post_up_message = <<-HELLO
==============================
 CPU Count          : #{BOX_CPU_COUNT}
 RAM (MB)           : #{BOX_RAM_MB}
 SSH Port           : 22   => 2222
 Telnet Port        : 23   => 2223
 WinRM Port         : 5985 => 55985
 RDP Port           : 3389 => 33389
 Username           : #{config.winrm.username}
 Password           : #{config.winrm.password}
 Host-Only Adapter
   Enabled          : #{BOX_HOSTONLY_NET}
   IP               : #{BOX_HOSTONLY_IP}
------------------------------
 Windows 7 Enterprise x64 booted !
 HELLO
end

Then just connect via RDP, WinRM, SSH or Telnet — pick your poison.
You can achieve the same result for your own VM by using these tweaks (which are off by default) after installation: "Enable RDP Server", "Enable Telnet Server", "Enable Remote Management", "Enable SSH Server".

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Right, added a couple more options.

 

That seems strange indeed, the files seem to be missing somehow. I can't say what happened there, I only have some guesses. You mentioned struggling with the laptop and I see you're using W10, so it might be some strange Windows 10 related trouble, or maybe disk corruption?

While only the first two of these points should be needed, here's some things to try:
1. Make sure you have enough disk space on the drive the tool is in, at least 20GB
2. Change the power settings to make sure the PC or its' hard drive doesn't go to sleep while working, on a laptop plug it into the wall, and don't use it while it's working
3. Put the tool in a short path without spaces: "C:\WIN7PLATINUM"
4. Run "cmd" as Administrator
5. Disable Windows Defender or any other anti-virus which might be blocking disk access for some unknown reason
6. Try using another PC to create the ISO

EDIT: Also, never use Rufus, as it is garbage. If you are making a bootable USB instead of burning a DVD, refer to the "BOOTABLE USB INSTRUCTIONS" in the README on how to do it the official way using official tools.

 

Updated to 2023-11-15

- Add latest Patch Tuesday updates KB5032000, KB5032252, KB5032383 (20231114)
- Update VCRedist to 20231114
- Update .NET Framework 4.8 to 20231114
- Update .NET Framework 3.5/2.0 to 20231114
- Update .NET Core 6 to 6.0.25
- Update .NET Core 7 to 7.0.14
- Add .NET Core 8.0
- Add Roboto font

 

Updated to 2023-12-12

- Add latest Patch Tuesday update KB5033433
- Update root certificates

 

8GB is enough. Please post the output of your step 1, which are the "diskpart" commands.
Either the stick is broken and the "diskpart" formatting part failed somehow, or the flash memory exhausted its' write cycles and isn't writable anymore. Or the USB drive reports a fake size and is not really 16GB, which is known to happen sometimes.