Convert DVD boot disc to USB boot stick

Is there any free Windows utility or program (7 or XP) that can be used to convert a working DVD boot disc to a USB boot stick?

 

1. The Official ImgBurn Website will allow you to convert DVD to .iso file
2. I know if you have an iso this will create a bootable USB for Win 7 (just test recently)
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All free SW's Hope this helps, J

 

Any number of image burning suites/programs can accomplish this - you just need to get your hands on the .iso, and then use the Windows utility on Microsoft's site that JOSEA provided (+1 rep, JOSEA!) to make the USB bootable.

P.S. ImgBurn is also very good.

 

ImgBurn is very good, but it only makes bootable physical discs from .iso files, and does not directly make bootable USB sticks.

Given all the Windows s/w that has been created, I have to think that there are Windows programs that directly make bootable USB sticks from .iso files.

But I wouldn't bet my life on it.

 

Whenever I needed to make a bootable flash drive from an iso that wasn't Windows, I used unetbootin.

 

InraRecorder, anyone? I'm not taken by it's audio disc burning capability/interface, but it has always come in handy for burning images for me.

 

Excuse me???

This implies that my recent *bootable* *free* 3GB d/l of Win7-64SP1 .iso is somehow different from any of the great many *free* and *bootable* Linux .iso d/l variants????

I seriously doubt this!

Have you got a non virus infested web site ref for unetbootin?

If yes then kindly post it.

 

For Windows isos, I've always used the Windows USB/DVD download tool with success so no need for unetbootin. That is what I meant, you completely misunderstood me. Here is unetbootin: UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads. In the list you have the other iso option, that is what I would try to use, it worked perfectly for the Crucial M4 firmware updater.

JOSEA already linked the USB/DVD download tool, I had assumed you tried it, but I don't see that you mentioned trying the USB/DVD download tool anywhere in this thread. It will not work for non MS .isos, but it is a very easy process for Windows isos.

 

1st thanks very much.

The unetbootin ref looks very hopeful.

And yes you are right.

Meaning that so far I haven't gotten around to trying to make a bootable USB stick from any .iso file.

I've d/l both the MS program (per JOSEA) and the unetbootin program (per you (i.e. tijo))

When I get to it in the next week, I'll try different things.

BTW and AFAIK, once created any bootable device (whether disc or USB stick) doesn't depend on a specific OS to actually work (i.e. boot).

So my hunch is that the program from MS (which must be run under a Windows OS) will be able to directly make a bootable USB stick of any Linux installation .iso file.

Again thanks for the unetbootin ref!

 

The MS program will return an invalid .iso error message with other .isos, at least that is what happened to me when i tried a non Windows .iso. It may have been just a fluke, but that is what led me to use unetbootin for a linux .iso (gparted).

 

I don't think the Windows utility will recognize a Linux install (as tijo mentioned). Linux typically uses something along the lines of grub4DOS for it's .iso/installation. Microsoft tends to not play nicely with other OSs.