
In this guide, I'll show you how to create a bootable Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 ISO image file from Windows installation files. NOTE: This method is applicable to Windows 10, 8.1 and 7 Versions Create bootable Windows ISO from installation files In short, if you have Windows installation files and want to create an ISO image file from them, you can do it in minutes. Windows ISO bootable from installation files / folders It's relatively easy and doesn't take a lot of time. After gaining GB of disk space, I realized that the previously downloaded Windows 7 SP1 ISO, which was present in the Downloads folder, was deleted along with other files.Īlthough I was able to easily download the Windows 7 SP1 ISO package again in a couple of minutes, I decided to create an ISO file from the Windows 7 bootable USB drive I had prepared to install Windows 7. Two days ago, I decided to free up some disk space on my Windows 8.1 drive and manually deleted everything in the Downloads folder and also uninstalled dozens of programs I had installed over the past three months. The installation went smoothly and Windows 7 worked as it should. Windows 10 ISO of files and folders.Ī couple of weeks ago, I downloaded Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate ISO 64-bit to my Windows 8.1 PC from Microsoft (using my MSDN subscription) and dual-boot Windows 7 with Windows 8.1 using my USB flash drive for bootable media. That is, you can use this method to create boot files.

Update: This method also works perfectly with newly released Windows 10.
