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If you have a valid Windows product key, you can download full legal copies of Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 from Microsoft and use them to reformat your computer or to setup a new computer.
What’s even better is that you can now use a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 product key to install Windows 10 on a machine too. So if you have a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC and you want to perform a clean install, you can now download the Windows 10 ISO image and use your current product key to activate Windows 10 after it is installed.
The only restriction that Microsoft is still maintaining is that you must install Windows 10 on the same PC where Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 were installed. However, even with this restriction, it’s a big change for Microsoft and great for consumers.
In this article, I’ll talk about how you can download a legal ISO image from Microsoft for the latest versions of Windows and create a bootable USB flash drive so that you can install the OS on your PC.
Download Windows 10, 8, 7 ISO Images
Previously, you used to be able to download ISO image files for Windows from a partner company called DigitalRiver, but Microsoft removed that option about a year or so back.
Now in order to download any of the latest operating systems, you have to visit the software download page here:
Across the top, you’ll see Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. For Windows 10 and Windows 8.1, you can download the ISO images without needing a product key. You have to enter that once you start the setup process.
Download Windows 7
For Windows 7, however, you actually need to enter a product key before you can even download the ISO image file.
Once you type in a valid product key, you’ll choose the language and whether you want to download the 32-bit or 64-bit version. Note that the version of Windows 7 you get to download will depend on your product key. So if you are using a Windows 7 Home key, you’ll only be able to download Windows 7 Home.
Download & Install Windows 8.1
For Windows 8.1, you have to download the media creation tool. What’s nice about the media creation tool is that you can use it to download Windows 8.1 and install it directly to a USB flash drive or burn it to a DVD.
Once you download the tool and run it, you’ll be asked the language, edition and architecture you want to download.
Click Next and you’ll have the option to save the file directly to a USB flash drive or download the ISO and burn it to a DVD.
If you pick USB flash drive, you’ll be asked to insert one before you can start the download. After that, the download will begin when you click Next.
Once the download is complete, the tool will begin installing the OS onto the USB drive or downloading the ISO file.
Download & Install Window 10
For Windows 10, you’ll see a button at the top called Upgrade now, which will try to upgrade your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 install to Windows 10. Keep scrolling down and you’ll see a Download tool now button.
Windows 10 also comes with a media creation tool, which does the same thing as the Windows 8.1 tool, but has an extra option at the very beginning.
First, you choose whether you want to upgrade the current PC or create installation media for another PC. In our case, we want to choose the latter option.
The Windows 10 media creation tool will also try to determine the best options for you based on the current PC hardware. You can uncheck the Use the recommended options for this PC box if you want to pick something different.
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You can choose from USB flash drive or ISO file using this tool. As with the Windows 8 tool, you’ll have to burn the ISO image yourself to a DVD if you pick that option.
If you pick flash drive, you’ll just need to make sure you have one already connected to your computer before you click Next.
USB Creation Tool for Windows 7
If you’re downloading Windows 8 or Windows 10 as an ISO file, you probably want to burn them to a DVD. For Windows 7, you only get the option to download the ISO file (no media creation tool), so you might want to burn it to a DVD or make a bootable USB flash drive.
Luckily, Microsoft has another free tool called the USB/DVD Download Tool that will take the ISO and install it onto a USB flash drive or burn it to a DVD. Note that this tool is called Windows 7 USB/DVD tool, but it works with the Windows 10 and Windows 8 ISO image files also.
Once you download and install it, you’ll simply go through a four step process. First, you pick your Windows ISO image file like shown below.
Next, you choose whether you want to use a USB device or a DVD for your Windows installation media.
Make sure to insert your USB device or DVD and then click the Begin copying or Begin burning button to start the process.
You’ll get a popup message stating that the USB device must be erased in order to continue. Go ahead and click Erase USB Device. The program will format the USB device and then begin the installation.
Once completed, you will have a bootable Windows USB device or DVD disc. Once you have created your media, you simply need to plug it into your computer and restart.
Most computers will try to boot from DVD or USB first, so the installation should come up automatically. However, if not, you will have to enter the BIOS and change the boot order manually. If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment. Enjoy!
In order to make a UEFI system boot from a USB flash drive, the latter has to be formatted in the FAT32 file system. An official Microsoft utility for creating bootable USB flash drives, Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, formats a flash drive to the NTFS file system. So, a UEFI system won’t boot from such a flash drive in native mode.
Let’s try to create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 7 distribution for UEFI computer by ourselves. We’ll need the following:
- USB flash drive (USB v2 or v3) with a capacity of at least 4 GB;
- 64-bit Windows 7 distribution (32-bit Windows versions won’t boot in the UEFI system). A distribution could be in the form of the installation DVD or an ISO image file.
Consider two ways to create a bootable UEFI flash drive for installing Windows 7.
How to manually create a bootable UEFI USB flash drive with Windows 7 installer?
You can create a bootable UEFI flash drive with the correct Windows distribution manually. The procedure described below is suitable for advanced users, is performed from the command line and allows you to fully control (and understand) all the steps in the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive.
Step-by-step guide on how to create a boot Windows 7 flash drive for a UEFI system:
- Connect a USB flash drive to the corresponding PC port;
- Run the command prompt as an administrator;
- Run the DISKPART tool by typing in the command prompt:
Diskpart
- Display the list of all drives in the system:
list disk
- Find the disk that corresponds to your USB flash drive (in our example it is Disk 2) and select it:
Select Disk 2
- Warning. The following command will completely remove all information and partitions on the USB flash drive, so it is better to make sure that you have selected your removable USB device in the previous step, and not one of the computer’s hard drives.Remove all data from the drive using this command:
clean
- Create a primary partition:
create partition primary
- Make this partition active (a system volume):
active
- List the system volumes with this command:
list volume
- Select the partition you have created (in our example, it is Volume 3):
select volume 3
- Format the selected partition with FAT32:
format fs=fat32 quick
Note. Unlike systems with BIOS, which allow booting from boot partitions with FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS, a UEFI systems allow to boot only from a bootloader located on a boot drive formatted with the FAT32 file system. - Assign a drive letter to the formatted partition (if Windows doesn’t assign a drive letter to an USB flash drive — see the article):
assign
- Exit DISKPART:
exit
- Copy the contents of your Windows 7 x64 installation disk to the USB flash drive that you have prepared. You can do it using Windows Explorer, a favorite file manager or from the command prompt, for example:
xcopy d:* f: /s /e
(where d: is an installation DVD or mounted ISO image containing a Windows 7 distribution, and f: is a letter assigned to the USB flash drive);Note. Since the maximum file size on the FAT32 file system should not exceed 4 GB, in some cases you won’t be able to copy the large image file install.wim. The file size of install.wim, maybe more than 4 GB, you have integrated updates, drivers, etc. into it. In this case, you will have to split the install.wim file into several files up to 4 GB in size (for example, 3 GB files). To do this, you can use the command Dism /Split-Image:Dism /Split-Image /ImageFile:D:sourcesinstall.wim /SWMFile:c:tmpinstall.swm /FileSize:3000
Or using the imagex tool:imagex /split D:sourcesinstall.wim c:tmpinstall.swm 3000
The resulting files (install.swm, install2.swm, install3.swm …) need to be copied to the USB flash drive into the directory F:sources. The Windows Installer will assemble the swm files and apply the full wim image to the disk during the installation process. - Go to f:efimicrosoftboot folder on the USB flash drive;
- Entirely copy its contents one level up (to the F:efiboot directory);
- Copy the bootmgfw.efi file to the f:efiboot folder and rename it to bootx64.efi.Note. The UEFI environment should pass control to the bootx64.efi file. The file bootmgfw.efi can be copied from the installed Windows 7 x64 system (located in the %windir%BootEFI folder). You can also get it using 7ZIP archiver, for example, from install.wim in the distribution iso. You can find it in the folder sourcesinstall.wim1WindowsBootEFIbootmgfw.efi.Note. Some motherboards require bootx64.efi to be additionally copied to the USB flash drive root; it has to have either the same name or shellx64.efi.
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Creating Windows 7 UEFI USB stick using Rufus
It is much easier for novice users to create bootable UEFI flash drive for installing Windows using the graphical interface of the popular Rufus utility. At the moment, the Rufus 3.3 is available on the developer’s website https://rufus.ie. The utility is quite compact (about 1 MB), doesn’t require installation and it’s completely free. In addition, it works much faster than analogs.
Run the Rufus utility and specify the following settings:
- Device: select your USB flash drive;
- Boot selection: specify the Windows 7 iso image;
- Partition scheme: GPT;
- Target system: UEFI (non-CSM);
- File system: FAT32.
Click START to start recording a Windows 7 image to an USB flash drive. After 10-15 minutes, your installation USB flash drive with Windows 7 for UEFI systems is ready.
After the described procedures, you have a USB flash drive, using which Windows 7 can be installed on a UEFI system in the native mode (note that, in order to install the operating system in UEFI mode, the hard disk of the computer must have a GPT partition layout). More detailed procedure of Windows 7 installation in a UEFI system will be considered in next article.
Tip. The procedure of making Windows 8 boot USB flash drive is a bit easier. You can find a detailed description here.