How to copy a boot disk to a flash drive. How to copy a bootable flash drive or disk to another flash drive using UltraISO Copy a Windows 7 boot disk

Greetings! Although CDs are no longer in fashion, because they are being intensively squeezed out by flash drives, I still decided to write an article today about how to copy an entire DVD/CD to a computer or other CD. I think many people will find this instruction interesting and useful. We will copy the contents of the disks using the UltraIso program, thanks to which you can create disk images, write them to flash drives, hard drives, CDs, etc. The program is easy to learn and at the same time functional, so we will use it to copy disks .

Note: You can copy the contents of a disk to a computer and then write it to a blank disc using standard operating system tools. However, if you copy the contents of the boot disk in this way and write it to a new blank disk, the new media will not be bootable.

How to copy DVD/CD to computer

If UltraISO is not installed on your computer, then download and install it first. So, first of all, insert the disc into the DVD-ROM drive. Afterwards we launch the UltraISO program,

Now we need to click on the "Create CD image" button

The image creation window will open, where we need to specify the main parameters. First of all, let’s check whether the correct drive is selected, then indicate the location on the computer where you want to save the disk image (for example, I chose the Desktop). Click the "Make" button

The process of creating a disk image will begin,

When finished, you will see a window like this:

Click no.

The disk image is successfully created and saved on the local disk.

How to copy a DVD/CD to another CD

Using the method described above, we saved the disk image to the computer. Now if you want to make a copy of the disk, you need to burn this image to a blank CD/DVD disk. Well, let's get started.

Insert a blank disc into the drive. Now let’s open the previously created disco image in *.iso format,

Now on the panel we find the “Burn CD image” button and click on it,

The Burn Image window will then open. Select the CD burning speed and click the "Burn" button.

The disc will begin burning, you can occupy yourself for 10-15 minutes. Upon completion, remove the disk and check. It's as simple as that copy DVD disc to another.

Although CDs are no longer in fashion, because they are being intensively squeezed out by flash drives, I still decided to write an article today about how to copy an entire DVD/CD to a computer or other CD. I think many people will find this instruction interesting and useful. We will copy the contents of the disks using the UltraIso program, thanks to which you can create disk images, write them to flash drives, hard drives, CDs, etc. The program is easy to learn and at the same time functional, so we will use it to copy disks .

How to copy DVD/CD to computer

If UltraISO is not installed on your computer, then download and install it first. So, first of all, insert the disc into the DVD-ROM drive. Afterwards we launch the UltraISO program,

Now we need to click on the "Create CD image" button

The process of creating a disk image will begin,

When finished, you will see a window like this:

Click no.

The disk image is successfully created and saved on the local disk.

How to copy a DVD/CD to another CD

Using the method described above, we saved the disk image to the computer. Now if you want to make a copy of the disk, you need to burn this image to a blank CD/DVD disk. Well, let's get started.

Insert a blank disc into the drive. Now let’s open the previously created disco image in *.iso format,

The task is, the initial conditions are:

The hard drive is divided into two or more partitions
Windows 7 installed on drive C:
Requires Windows 10 installation
The current Windows should remain operational and run from drive D:
You can't format drive "D"
This is not the first time the user has seen the computer :)

Or you can, on the contrary, install seven, copy ten, and swap the disks, this does not change anything.

What is this for? Well, for example, it’s high time to reinstall the system, but in the old OS a lot of things have been installed and configured since time immemorial. When you reinstall the OS, all programs and settings are lost. I would like to be able to run the old system and see what was there and how it worked. Well, or stupidly it’s problematic to transfer some licenses.

The whole difficulty is that existing programs can do it, but for the same logical partition. That is, from drive C: to drive C. But they don’t know how to do it to the same physical disk and to the second partition. Everything is complicated by the fact that even if they learn, we can’t format the destination disk, because according to legend there are tons of information that there is nowhere to put or that is very time-consuming and painful to put.

We'll have to do some magic. The action plan is:

Editing the boot menu
Booting from a flash drive
Copying system folders
Changing drive letters

Windows boot menu

When Windows boots, a menu will appear with the ability to select an operating system: the new (current) Windows and the copied current one. To add a new item there

Launch via the right button and select “Run as administrator”. Next, go to the “BCD” tab, where “BCD of current system” should be selected. Click on the “Easy mode” button

Now you need to configure a new menu item:

BootDisk: our hard drive with current Windows

Partition: partition (drive D) to which the current Windows was copied

OStitle: custom menu item name

Language: ru-RU, Russian language

Timeout: seconds after which the default item will be automatically selected.

To record changes, click “Save current system”. All this can be done later, read below.

Preparing a flash drive

According to the article. We will need Paragon Hard Disk Manager and Acronis Disk Director. Therefore, we select an image for the flash drive that contains these programs. The image from Sergei Strelec suits. Instead of a flash drive, there can be a CD/DVD or an external hard drive, it doesn’t matter.

In the Windows PE environment, this is the Windows that runs from USB.

Now you need to copy the system folders to the root of drive D, namely:

Windows
Users
Program Files
Program Files (x86) – if available
ProgramData

All these folders are needed for Windows and all installed programs to function on the second partition. Some highly specialized programs are installed by default to the root of the disk, and not to the “Program Files” folder, so take a look at the root of the C: drive and if you see familiar folder names, you need to copy them too.

You can simply copy using a file manager, for example, Total Commander. You can use the TeraCopy program, which is included in the Sergei Strelec image. It copies without stopping to error messages, if anything. And then at the end you can see what could not be copied and take action.

There may be problems with this step. Surprisingly, running Windows from a flash drive, it still protects Windows system files on other drives! Not always, but it happens. Therefore, there may be messages about access errors when copying registry files and its user branches (ntuser.dat). Namely the problematic folders:

System32\config
ServiceProfiles
Users\user folder\ntuser*.*

If you listened and chose an image from Paragon Hard Disk Manager, then we copy EVERYTHING or only the problem areas. Launch it, go to “Utilities” and select “Move Files”

Select the required folders or files and wait for the process to complete:

You can also copy using Acronis True Image, selecting backup files there, saving them to another drive, and then restoring them to your D drive.

If someone has only this program at their disposal, then please. But sometimes, for some reason, it freezes when copying large volumes, for example, all the necessary folders.

If there is a BOOTICE utility on the flash drive, then you can add another Windows to the menu item now, and not in the first step. All the steps are the same, but on the “BCD” tab, select “Other BCD file” and look for it along the path “C:\boot\BCD”. Now drive C is a hidden drive in regular Windows, but when you boot into Windows PE it is visible, and it should be 100-350 Mb in size. Or, if there is no such hidden disk, then this is a disk with the current Windows 7/8/10.

The final touch - letters

And now the highlight. The main problem of starting Windows from another drive is that it has a different letter, for example D, and most of the settings are firmly registered on drive C. We will change the drive letters in the copy of the operating system, i.e., so that Windows considers that drive D to where it is currently located, drive C.

So, let's launch Acronis Disk Director from a flash drive. Select the copied Windows from the list. Now, in theory, you should have two identical Windows, and you can distinguish a copy by the letter of the drive and its size on which it is located:

Now right-click on drive C and select “Change letter”. Select any free one, for example the letter G. Now we just need to free the letter C. Next, change the drive letter D to C, and the drive letter G to D:

All that remains is to apply the changes:

That's all.

Results, what happened

So, we created a new item in the boot menu, copied the system folders and swapped the letters. The trick is that now both Windows will work, and the one that remains on drive C, the current one, will continue to “see” drives C and D as they are now. And if you run the copied Windows, then in it you will see your disks “messed up” in places.

When you install Windows 10 on drive C, feel free to format the partition. The new installation will replace the name of the old Windows 7/8 with 10 in the menu and leave our new menu item.

But there may be a problem - most likely the activation of the copy of Windows will fail. You can reactivate again or do nothing if you only need it for a short time.

I haven’t found a simpler and “dumb” method to do all this, and if you know how else is possible, please write in the comments.

Make a boot disk with Windows 7 to reinstall it

People often ask how to make a good boot disk for Windows 7. Why do we need a boot disk? We need it if we are planning to reinstall windows on the computer.

ATTENTION! We highly recommend the article why a laptop heats up. Users often underestimate this situation. The result is the combustion of one or more expensive parts. Although, the heating issue is not difficult to solve.

Introduction

But it’s one thing to reinstall or install windows, and another thing to prepare for it. That is, make a good boot disk. There are enough ways to make such a disk. This article will discuss the method using the Windows 7 USB DVD tool.

Making a bootable disk using Windows 7 USB DVD tool

This is a free program from Microsoft. Why we will use this particular program is because it can also be used to make a bootable USB flash drive, which is also very popular and often needed.

In general, the program is sensible, nothing superfluous, everything is simple and literally in 2-3 mouse clicks a boot disk is already created.

You can use another program, the main thing is that using the example of Windows7 USB DVD tool, we will analyze the very essence of creating a boot disk, and from there you can experiment with any other programs.

And so first you need a Windows 7 image. What is a “disk image”?

Well, where can I get this image?

or here: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool (copy this link, paste it into the browser address bar and press enter) from the official Microsoft website, size only 2.6 MB.

Let's say we downloaded it, now we launch it, this is what it looks like when you launch it for the first time:

In this window you need to indicate that you need to make a boot disk or flash drive? (). Since we need a boot disk, select “DVD”:

All you have to do is click in the next window:

If everything was done correctly, the Windows 7 image will begin recording to disk. If an error appears, then read the article error: we were unable to copy your files When the recording process is finished, you can use this disk as a boot disk to install Windows 7 on a computer or laptop.

This is how we looked at the question of what steps it takes to create an installation disk with the Windows version 7 operating system.

First, let's look at a fairly simple way to copy content from one flash drive to another.

First way:

To copy a bootable USB flash drive image, you will need to perform the following steps:

Connect a bootable Windows USB flash drive to your computer's USB port.

2. Launch the UltraISO program.

" From the context menu, select " Create a diskette image..." or " Create a Hard Disk Image..."(both options work the same).

4. In the window " Create a diskette image", in the "Disk Drive" item, select the drive letter that is designated in Explorer for the bootable USB flash drive connected to the computer. In the settings item " Save as", select a location to save the disk or floppy image. By default, the disk or floppy image will be saved in the ".ima" format.

Please note that that the file in the “IMA” format will have a size equal to the size of the entire flash drive. If the flash drive has a size of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, then the “.ima” file will have the same size.

Make sure you have enough free disk space on your computer. After copying the flash drive is completed, this file is no longer needed and can be deleted.

5. Click on the button Do».

7. The window that opens “ Clue" will inform you that the creation of the disk image has been successfully completed.

8. Connect the second UISB drive to the computer, to which you want to transfer the contents of the first flash drive. Disconnect the original bootable USB flash drive from the computer; it is no longer needed.

9. In the UltraISO program, enter the menu “ File", click " Open…", select the file "boot.ima".

", select "".

11. In the window " Write Disk Image"You need to make settings to record a bootable USB flash drive with Windows:

in the setting " Disk Drive» select a flash drive (refer to its designation in Explorer, name and size of disk space);
You can check the box " Check» to check the recorded flash drive for errors;
in field " Image file» check the path to the original disk image;
in the option " Recording method» select « USB-HDD+»

12. Click on the button Write down».

13. In the window " Clue» Agree that all information will be deleted from the disk.

15. After completion and verification, in the “ Write Disk Image» information about the event will appear: “Recording completed!”.

Close the UltraISO program, the Windows bootable USB flash drive has been transferred to another disk and is ready for use.

Second way:

The second method assumes that you first need to copy the bootable USB flash drive into ISO format, which is then written to another flash drive. When carrying out this operation, a system image was created in ISO format without booting, however, when checked, the copied flash drive with the Windows 10 operating system booted on my computer.

Follow these steps:

Connect to your computer a bootable USB flash drive with Windows and an empty USB flash drive to which you want to copy the data.

2. Enter the UltraISO program.

3. Select the designation of the bootable USB flash drive in the “Directory” area, and then drag it to the new project area.

4. In the window " Clue» Agree to add all files to the disk.

5. After this, the contents of the bootable USB flash drive will be displayed in the new project area.

6. Enter the menu " File", select " Save as…».

7. In the Explorer window that opens, give the file a name (I chose the name “Windows 10”), select the location to save the ISO file.

8. In the window " Process» displays the process of saving the ISO file to your computer.

9. After saving the file on your computer, enter the menu " File", in the context menu select " Open…».

10. In the Explorer window, select the previously saved ISO image.

", select " Burn a Hard Disk Image...»

12.In the window " Write Disk image» make settings:

in the option " Disk Drive» select the flash drive to which you want to copy the contents of the bootable flash drive;
check the box " Examination» to make sure that the process of writing to the flash drive went without errors;
check that the path to the image file is correct, in this case to the image " Windowsiso»;
in the setting " Recording method» select « USB-HDD+».

13. Then click on the “Record” button.

14. In the warning window, agree that all data from the flash drive will be deleted.

16. After recording is complete, close the UltraISO program window.

How to transfer a Windows image from a DVD to a USB flash drive using UltraISO

Sometimes, there are situations when the user has a Windows installation disc recorded on a DVD. He needs to copy the disk with the operating system to a flash drive, which will become bootable.

To transfer a Windows image from an installation disk to a USB flash drive, you must complete the following steps:

1. Insert the operating system DVD into your computer's drive.

2. Connect the USB flash drive to the computer.

3. In the UltraISO program window, enter the menu “ File", select " Open CD/DVD…».

4. In the window " Open CD/DVD"Select your computer's optical drive, click on the " Open».

5. Enter the “Boot” menu, select “Burn Hard Disk Image...”.

6. In the “Write Disk Image” window, make settings for writing a bootable USB flash drive:

V " Disk Drive» select a flash drive;
check the box next to “ Check»;
in field " Image file» the drive letter of the optical drive will be displayed;
select recording method " USB-HDD+».

7. Click on the button Write down».

8. Agree to delete all data from the flash drive in the “ Clue».

9. After completing the recording process and checking the flash drive, close the UltraISO program.

You now have a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive created from the installation DVD.

Conclusion

If necessary, using the UltraISO program, you can copy the contents of a bootable flash drive to another flash drive, making it bootable. UltraISO has the ability to transfer the contents of a DVD with the Windows operating system to a USB flash drive.