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I am following these instructions:

1) Insert your upgrade DVD into your DVD Drive and load up "Windows Explorer"

2) Browse to your DVD rom drive and expand it, there should be a bunch of directories, and you should have 2 that are called "Win7OS32" and "Win7OS64"
3) Now if you want the 64 bit version of Windows 7, right click on the "Win7OS64" directory, and select copy from the popup menu (if you want the 32 bit version right click on the "Win7OS32" directory)

4) Create a temporary directory for example lets say we create a directory in drive C: called "Win7DVD"

5) Browse to the newly created directory (Win7DVD) and paste the files you copied in step 3

6) Download "oscdimg.exe" (which is the WIndows Iso creator tool released by Microsoft with their Automated Installation Kits) I've uploaded it here for those who don't want to download the kit from MS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BJORY9VO
but for the people who aren't confortable downloading something from me you can download the full WAIK from microsoft from the link below, but its almost a gig though
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...3-679830d629f2

7) Put the "oscdimg.exe" file into C:\Win7DVD (or whatever the directory you created is called)

8) Load up the command prompt(cmd) and run the following command
oscdimg.exe –bC:\Win7DVD\Win7OS64\boot\etfsboot.com -u2 -h -m -lWIN_EN_DVD C:\Win7DVD\Win7OS64 C:\Win7.iso

9) Once the process is complete you should have a file in your C drive called Win7.iso, burn this with Imgburn or your favourite ISO burning software.

There you have it, a bootable Win 7 DVD that you can use to format and do a clean install with.

Click to expand...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=430379

I receive the error message:

Could not delete existing file "C:\Win7DVD\Win7OS64
Error:5 Access is denied.

> I am doing this from Windows 7 Upgrade (I want to do a clean install)

> I am not sure if it is relevant, but there is a lock on the file in Windows of the path where the cmd prompt points to : (C:\Users\(insert my name).

> If it is relevant, this where I downloaded the ISO creator from:

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...124-make-bootable-iso-student-d-l-oscdimg.zip

I tried running it with an elevated command prompt, but same issue.

I have a feeling it has to do with permissions on folders, but not sure. I removed the "Read Only" attribute from the C:\Win7DVD\Win7OS64 folder, but for whatever reason, after doing it and going back, the "Read Only" is selected again. Removing the "Read Only" might be the key.

This fix should have worked, but no dice.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256614

Windows really can be a piece of work sometimes.

Someone suggested it might have to do with Networking attributes, but I am not sure what to do.

JWBlue, Dec 2, 2009

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Someone here mentioned a success bootable W7 creation disk with much simpler steps.

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1174622.htm

cheers ...

qhn, Dec 2, 2009

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If I boot from a USB drive, will I be able to do a clean install?
Here are the instructions.

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1104977.htm#post4184471

JWBlue, Dec 2, 2009

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