I recently got to build a custom image of Windows 7, and I can successfully install it on other computers. The problem I have is right now I have to do the installs from a bootable hard drive. I would much rather do this from a disk or ISO image. I know there is a program that will take the Windows 7 system files and convert it to an ISO image, but I can't think of it.
Otherwise, could I just simply burn the files to a DVD? Would that work?
Answer
If you can, a better solution is to use a USB drive for installation purposes.
See this article on how to prepare a USB flash drive for Windows 7 installs, once the drive is prepared properly, simply copy and paste your installation files to it.
The only thing I would change from that article is the format command.
Use
format fs=fat32 quick
Otherwise it will take forever to do a long format.
If the wim file is larger than 4 GB, you cannot use FAT32, you will have to use NTFS and one more step to make the flash drive bootable under NTFS as outlined in the article.
format fs=ntfs quick
Any time you wish to change to installation files to another custom build, just delete all the files from the flash drive and copy the new ones onto it.
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