Creating a bootable Windows 7 x64 flash drive from within a 32-bit install of Windows is not as straight forward as it may seem. I recently had to go through this process myself, so I’ll document the steps below.
Things you’ll need
- Windows 7 x64 disc image
- Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
- 32-bit bootsect.exe
Create the installer
- Install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
- Extract the 32-bit bootsect.exe file to the directory that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool was installed to. This is usually something like “C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool“.
- Run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool and select your Windows 7 disc image. Follow the remaining steps in this tool and your image should be created successfully!
If you’ve followed these steps and your flash installer was created successfully then your next step is to, of course, install Windows 7! Don’t forget to change your boot options to load from USB!
This information is scattered on the web and slightly detailed on the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool page, but I was not able to find a guide laid out as simplified as the one I’ve provided above. In most tutorials they suggest that you download the entire 32-bit iso in order to get the 32-bit bootsect.exe application, but I’ve made that step a lot less troublesome. Hopefully this has helped you!
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Thank you for supplying the 32-bit bootsect file 🙂
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Seriously, thanks a million! finding all the steps to complete this clean install has been a pain in the @$$. 🙂 you made it far easier 🙂 TY.
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This was so great. I’ve been searching for the 32-bit bootsect file for so long, and I was just about to go ahead and download the entire 32-bit iso. Thankfully I found your page!
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Thank you.
It helps a lot! 🙂
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Thank you mate for providing the bootsect.exe file.. Thanks alot.. Much appreciated!
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amazing
thanks a lot for the painless process!!!
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I did everything you suggested everything goes great until the first restart and then it loops back to the beginning and wants to reinstall Win7 X64. Yes, the BIOS is set to see the USB stick as the first thing to load. Yes, all non-essentials are removed from the computer.
This is a clean install on a new HDD.
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You must remove usb pen on reboot or it will read usb again and go back to install
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THANK YOU SO MUCH ! Now, I can reinstall windows 7 on my broken PC 😀
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You’re an absolute lifesaver.
I’ve been skipping from place to place for five or six hours and when I saw your three step process laid out above… Well. I about died.
I bought a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium along with a new mobo and processor. The new board is SATA only and my DVD drive is IDE. I felt like such a tool until I realised I could put the install on a USB stick. Then I went back to feeling like an idiot when I couldn’t work out how to make a bootable USB stick.
Finally I found your page which has everything I needed to know set out clearly and succinctly! It’s a mini adventure and I’ve not even started trying to find 64 bit drivers…
Cheers!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Thanks for the bootsect!! You have saved my day!! 😀
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Thanks a lot. Your trick helped me do that easily.Now i can test windows 8 easily.
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You’re the man!!!
I have searched hours for this, and you didn’t even only provide the steps necessary to get this to work but also the necessary files.
Thanks a lot!
Rob
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I just want to offer my sincere thanks. I don’t understand why Microsoft don’t just do that. I have been chatting to them online and they directed me to a long and cumbersome process (despite the fact that getting to the point of recognising the missing bootsect.exe file was rather cumbersome in itself!). So thanks to all of you people who know what you’re doing and are willing to share your solutions with all the rest of us.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Thanks so much! You saved my day!
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Hey thank you for this guide. I had my doubts BUT it worked the first time when I followed your instructions exactly. Cheers
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.83 Safari/537.1
Awesome! thanks for this, it was super easy, and helpful.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
I did everything as said but I get the same error over and over: Copying files succesful, however, the bootsect didn’t work and the usb is not bootable.
I downloaded the bootsect, extracted it properly, I have the right .iso and the program to put it on the usb. Any ideas? 🙁
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Lou
September 7, 2012 at 12:36 pm
using Firefox 14.0.1 Firefox 14.0.1 on Windows XP Windows XP
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I did everything as said but I get the same error over and over: Copying files succesful, however, the bootsect didn’t work and the usb is not bootable.
I downloaded the bootsect, extracted it properly, I have the right .iso and the program to put it on the usb. Any ideas? 🙁
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hello, i have the exact problem!
did you find the solution?
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Will this work if I’m currently running Windows XP? If not, could somebody please explain how to create a bootable windows 7 x64 install flash drive from Windows XP? Is this possible?
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It will work.
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When I attempt it I get “NTLDR is missing”
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hello, I can’t Create a Bootable Windows 7 x64 Install Flash Drive from 32-bit virtual Windows xp.
my main system is ubuntu 12.04, virtualbox is running inside, VB run windows xp, where I’ve downloaded all the files for bootablelity I’ve tried to do the same with a linux usb bootable creator but not into my virtual windows xp
help, please
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Bootsect looks safe according to virustotal: https://www.virustotal.com/file/8d9cc60f938a4ea6a66c7b8cf383be97843adf6f120c2c47ef91b9b8e1f01c72/analysis/1349121947/
I’m gonna test this right now, wish me luck!
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Yo, thnx for savin’ my day and night. Cheers bruv!
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Thank you so much! The bootsect.exe trick worked beautifully! You saved my day!
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
Big thanks!!! I read a lot of rubbish before I found out this… It works perfect! Thanks again! 🙂
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What a star – it’s taken me ages to get a solution – thank you very much! Jeremy
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awesome !! thought it wouldnt be possible ..ut u made a gem of atrick to install from 32 bit :)kudos !
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Thank you so much …….
Micro$oft sucks
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I think that I LOVE YOU
you´ve saved my life THANK YOU
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Thanks original poster! It worked wonderfully. I had to search many places before I found your easy solution.
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thx a looooooooooooooooooooooot u made my day best one eeeeeeeeeeever 🙂
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thxa lot .
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i have windows xp 32 bit.i searched everywhere for C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool.i cant find that location.i have this C:\Documents and Settings\chendog\Start Menu\Programs\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool
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-Open “Start Menu”
-Right click on “Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool”
-Select “Properties”
-Left click “Find Target…”
That will take you to the file location in Windows Explorer
🙂
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This path on my computer was a SHORTCUT to the tool not the installation directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\chendog\Start Menu\Programs\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool
The actual installation directory was as follows, so copy the bootsect.exe. file here
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool
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Why doesn’t Microsoft make it this easy?
Thanks a lot, this was really helpful and I couldn’t find the bootsect for this (or what I found wasn’t trust worthy).
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I have a question.
Thank you for all these, but what is when i have an installed system, like Win7 Home premium 32 bit.
I wanna install Win7 64bit, will my files stay on hdd or it will be deleted everything?
I dont have a partition, its everything C:\
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Thanks for the trick and the bootsect app.
I found more than 10 tuto explaining it’s not possible to create a mixed bootable key (OS64 on a 32bits host)…
A big thank you again
Didier
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Thanks dude!!!
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Great! Thanks for your help.
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I’m grateful for your help
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You are a lifesaver, thanks! 😀
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you should be in charge of Microsoft mate, thanks
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Thanks, saved me the hassle of downloading and extracting that exe.
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DUDE!!! This save me a lot of time!! I’ve been walking around in circles tryin’ to figure out how I can make this pendrive… So many errors… There was the .iso error too, and this one? This is really a pain in the @ss… Thank you a lot!! Best Regards from Brazil!
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thx a lot (hello from brazil:P)
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Thanks a lot, I couldn’t find that damn bootsect.exe file! Now I’ll see if I’ll be able to reboot from USB without the ‘invalid partition table’ error. Fingers crossed!
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thanks very much yaar….
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It boots up and loads the files but it restarts itself back to the bios screen. Then tries again to load the USB and it restarts once again as it loads the windows files.
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Thank you!
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Thanks very much! https://twitter.com/adamralph/status/297700443067412480
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Thanks!!
Thanks for the file. I will give it a try and see if it works.
Current OS: windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit.
Creating 64 bit bootable usb with windows 7 ultimate 64bit.iso.
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you’re a lifesaver man. saved me a lot of time. thanks.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
Many thanks for the bootsect.exe file
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Thanks for the 32bit bootsect.exe didn’t want to download it from MS.
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Thank you very much for allowing me to bypass the atrocious microsoft store, which is about as clear as mud on a rainy day.
Hoping that this works for me : creating a bootable USB drive of Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate from a laptop with Windows 7 Starter 32 bit.
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Cheers, much simpler than Microsoft’s mountains out of molehills solution.
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Thanks man!
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This really helps, but it is asking for a password … any idea what it is?
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Huge thanks for this. I was banging my head against the wall. Pretty lame error notification on Windows part.
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thaks for the info !!!!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
Thank you! It worked fine.
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ahh thanks alot man, ive been stressing on this for hours!!
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This was more than helpfull!
Thanks!
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Thanks for this… like…like…like…like…
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thank you so much for the help 🙂
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thanks !!! omg you are awesome
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0
Thank you so much for 32-bit bootsect.exe. I was able to create bootable USB with Win 7 64-bit, using Win XP 32-bit. Although I’ve not tested yet, but the operation of creating bootable USB went without any errors.
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This worked immediately!! Thanks So Much!
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You rock man!!! Thank you for taking the time and sharing this.
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I’ve already following the step. It works on my USB to be a bootable drive. but I still can’t boot through USB drive even I change my boot options to load USB.
I try to open and run the setup.exe form my bootable USB, the message still the same that says the file is compatible with the version of Windows.
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FYI, I’m using Windows 7 32 bit on trial mode. I want to reboot it and make it Windows 7 64 bit
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Thanks so much for this, helped big style.
I actually found solution somewhere else but after scrolling through numerous forums. This is very straight forward all in one solution for others trying to install via usb from win7 32 bit to win7 64 bit. Thanks again ;0)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Thanks a lot for the advice. The best solution I’ve seen to this by far.
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Thank you for providing not only a simplified instructional, but the bootsect file! Also the title made it really easy for me to find from a search engine 🙂
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
You are the man !
Totally saved my by providing the bootsect.exe 🙂
– You take good care ,
– B
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
You make possible what Microsoft makes impossible. Thanks so much, your help worked perfectly.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36
Thanks a lot! You make it easier and faster. Thanks once again
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thanks you save me
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36
Hi,
i did not understand what to do with bootsect.exe. should i copy that file to “C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool” ? should i run that file ?
Giyora
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Hi Giyora,
Copy the bootsect.exe file to that directory, then run the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. Hope that helps!
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Thank you
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Thank you… seriously, thank you so much for this!!!!!
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Thank you very very much. I saw a usb preparation guide where the guy described even the installation procedure but didn’t tell how to fix the bootsect issue. You are awesome!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36
Thank you for this great tip! It helped me installing Windows 7 x64 on Lenovo Y700 🙂
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Thanks, man!
You just saved me a lot of trouble.
A question for you, what’d be the most reliable site to download windows ISOs from? of course I’m talking about the free ones.
Thanks in advance 🙂
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there are many but these two are legit imo
->This one is verified by comparing md5 and sha-1 hash values with the original copies…totally legit site:
http://mirror.corenoc.de/digitalrivercontent.net/
->There’s another one also verified but kinda new-
windowsiso.net
both work fine and also they support torrent downloads 😀
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Thanks a million, You did amazing work in precise manner.
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very much thanks dude…you Da Real MVP!!!
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thanks it worked.save a lot of time.
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Hi Kyle
I am trying to Windows 8.1 over Vista (32-bit). I downloaded the Windows 7 USB DVD tool and the bootsect.zip file. Still no joy; even though it’s telling me my copy was successful, when I run Setup.exe it fails on the 32/64 bit conflict:
1) Will the Win7 USB DVD tool work for Windows 8.1
2) Does bootsect have to be extracted right into the Win7 USB DVD folder, or in the same directory as this folder?
3) Does the Windows 8.1 iso file have to be in any particular folder?
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Hi Tony
For your questions.
1) yes, it will.
2) yes, it has to be extracted into the Win7 USB DVD folder.
3) no, it doesn’t.
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Hi Kyle
I see the link to 32 bit bootsect.exe is no longer working. I can’t find it anywhere and need it urgently. I would appreciate if you could make it available again. Or if anybody else can point me to a download.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3218.0 Safari/537.36
Hi Dan, it looks like the previous link had expired. I’ve updated the link now, please try again!
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Thanks for your quick response 🙂