Please backup with a disk image before proceeding. I tested WinToHDD on a virtual machine and worked great, but there are some caveats to using this program.įirst of all, because of the way this program is set up, it will likely wipe your entire C drive - so WinToHDD: Works Great, but Proceed With Plenty of Caution After a bit of research, I came acrossĪ freeware program called WinToHDD, which allows you to boot from an operating system disc image (.ISO file) - even if you can't boot from USB or DVD This is a good question in fact, I recently had a similar circumstance withĪnother user via remote desktop support. Do you have any idea how I can install Windows 7 on a machine that can't boot from DVD or USB? " Windows setup.exe file from the thumb drive on my Vista desktop, but I receive a message that 'Windows installation could not be started from the current operating system'. USB thumb drive, but it appears that my system does not support booting from USB. I had a friend of mine convert the Windows 7 installation DVD into a bootable The problem is that this PC is an all-in-one unit, and the DVD drive is broken replacing it would be extremely difficult. I have an older Windows Vista machine and I'm trying to upgrade it to a clean
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