Windows 7 DVD easily build your own

Windows 7 DVD easily build your own
Who needs to re-install Windows 7, should take the original DVD. Which
is in many PCs and laptops but not enclosed. All around computer shows
you how to create a Windows-7-DVD.

Many PC manufacturers ship their devices nowadays are no longer made
with full Windows-DVDs, but only with a recovery DVD or partition. Thus,
the PC can only be reset frequently to the factory setting. They have in
Windows 7 after the restoration of the original version without updates,
but with the old programs that were preinstalled on the PC.
A true Windows-DVD has over the advantages: You can install Windows so
clean, and also embed new advance if needed updates, service packs and
new device drivers.
Because of the home made a Windows-7-DVD is a bit of work, you should
first check that you still do not already have a full-fledged Windows
DVD. All around computer shows you how to recognize genuine Windows 7
DVDs, prepare for your needs and create on demand from the existing
installation is complete.

Find out whether one of the DVDs that came with your computer, a
full-fledged Windows DVD. Then you can in fact save the complicated
self-made. This also applies if you contact your PC burn the recovery
DVD only themselves. Please follow the instructions, which is usually
found on a separate page attached to the computer.
Check included DVD: Insert the DVD into the drive, click the Windows
icon and select "Computer". Double-click in the window that appears on
the DVD drive to view its contents. Located underneath the folder
"Sources", then open it by double clicking.
Find the heading of the file "install.wim". If you find it, click it
with the right mouse button and select in the drop down menu
"Properties". If the file contains more than 2 GB in size, it is most
likely a complete Windows-7-DVD.
Windows-7-DVD use a different computer: If your household is in another
Windows 7 computers on which you have a Windows-7-DVD, then you can
usually save a homemade also. For the original DVD contains all the
Windows 7 versions (Starter, Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate),
but only as a 32-bit or 64-bit versions. Which version is installed
depends on your Windows product key.
If you want to install Windows 7 on the computer without the original
disk that you can use for this and your other Windows-7-DVD. However, it
must be adjusted so that you can use your Windows product key in the rule.

Caution: The procedure described below is from the Windows maker
Microsoft is not actually intended, but usually works anyway. It is
probably the only way a Windows-7-DVD without the original disks to
create that promises success in any installation. Due to the large
number of different computer-equipped computer All around, however, can
not guarantee that the homemade DVD is in any case be fully functional.
To compile from your current Windows 7 is a installation DVD, you need a
whole series of programs. But first you have to check what Windows 7
version is installed on your PC. To hold the [Win] key and then press
[Pause]. Which then appears in the window shows the "Windows edition"
version of the name (like "Windows 7 Home Premium") and further down in
the "System", the system architecture ("32 bit" or "64 bit"). Write down
the information.
Windows 7 Enterprise: Now load the DVD image of the test version of
Windows 7 Enterprise from the internet from the Microsoft download page.
Be sure to catch the version with your system architecture. This image
is later used as a framework for your new Windows 7 DVD.
Virtual Clone Drive: Now install Virtual Clone Drive. Confirm that the
driver software can be installed, although the signature is not verifiable.
Windows Automated Installation Kit: Then download the latest dump of the
Windows Automated Installation Kit from the Internet. Click on the
downloaded ISO file with the right mouse button and select the menu
"Load Image File". Then click the Windows icon, select the "Computer"
and open the new virtual disk with the inserted "KB3AIK_DE".
Double-click on the program entry StartCD.exe there. In the Start
window, select the menu item "Windows AIK Setup" and follow the
instructions of the wizard.
Virtual Box: Do not install the Virtual Box program. So you will start
later you created copy of Windows.
Winimage: Do not install the trial version of the English program
Winimage. So unpack later the Windows installation archive from the
virtual copy of Windows. Ensure proper version.
Windows PE: Finally, you must still create the CD image to a
"mini-Windows 7". The later you need to pack up the installation image.
Unzip the archive to All around computer MakeWinPE to any folder on your
hard disk. Then click in it to the same file with the right mouse button
and select "Run as administrator". A few minutes later you find in the
directory "C: \ winpe" about the large 140 MB CD image "Winpe.iso".

In order not to damage your running Windows, you must create a virtual
copy of it. Start the English-language Disk2vhd from the Sysinternals
suite. Remove the check mark next to the program in all drives except
the system and boot partition. Then click on "..." and select the folder
where the virtual drive (VHD) to be created. Make sure that the drive to
free enough space for the contents of the system and boot partition.
Then click on "Create". The copy process may take several hours.
Creating a virtual machine: Start Virtual box and select "New" and then
"Next". Then type the name of your Windows version, as Windows 7 Home
Premium 64 bit. In addition to "version" choose "Windows 7" or "Windows
7 (64 bit)" and then click "Continue". In the next window you reserve
1024 MB of RAM for the virtual machine and click again on "Continue". In
the new window select "disk use" and click the little folder icon. Then
click "Add" button, locate the previously created VHD file, click "Open"
and "Select", then "Next" and "Finish". Finally, click on "Start" to use
the virtual system.
By the way: Since your main and the virtual machine to work with
different hardware, and possible error messages are repeated restarts of
the virtual Windows. Once this system is stable, you can proceed.
De-install software: To get a clean installation DVD as possible, the
underlying Windows installation should be as free of extraneous
software. Click your virtual Windows so the Windows icon and select
"Control Panel, Programs and Features". There you will remove the
"Uninstall" in succession each program.
Remove user files: Now delete all pictures, video, music and other files
that do not belong to the Windows system. The more you delete more, the
lower the amount of data to your new Windows 7 DVD.
Delete User Accounts: You click on the Windows icon and select "Control
Panel, User Accounts, Manage another account". Remove the so-called
window in turn each account by clicking the "Delete Account" button.
Only the account with which you are currently logged in, you can not
delete. In a new installation with the new Windows-7-DVD will be
included automatically.
Cleaning the system: After you have removed all the software, click
again on the Windows icon, type in the search box, type cleanmgr and
press [Enter]. On the first window click "OK". After the releasable
space was calculated, select "Clean System Files" and click again on "OK".
Then open the tab "More Options" and click in the "System Restore and
Shadow Copies" to "Clean ..." and "Delete". Then open the tab "Disk
Cleanup" and put check in front of all available options. Finally click
"OK".

Now prepare your virtual Windows 7 so that all the system settings are
set as neutral as possible before you pack it into a setup file. Just
click on the virtual Windows 7 on the Windows icon and type cmd in the
search box. Click the right mouse button on the top search hit, and "Run
as Administrator", select the new menu. Enter into the command window
this command line:
cd / d% windir% \ system32 \ SYSPRE ep
Press [Enter]. Then type this command:
sysprep / generalize / oobe / sh utdown
According to [Enter] will begin the neutralization process that takes
several minutes. Then shuts down the virtual Windows.
Windows PE: Now select the entry in Virtual Box on the left for your
virtual Windows 7 and then right click on "Storage". Select below "IDE
Controller" and select "Empty" next to the DVD icon. Click on the far
right-clicking the folder icon, then click "Add". Now select "C: \ winpe
\ winpe.iso". The click "Open", "Select" and "OK". Then click "Start"
and press any key when prompted on the screen to do so. Thus, the
virtual PC will boot from your previously created Windows PE image.
Image pack: Windows PE will automatically open a Kommandozeilenfens
funnel. First enter the command diskpart, and press [Enter]. Then tap a
select disk 0 and press [Enter]. With list volume, and [Enter] all
partitions of your system temlaufwerks listed. In the column "lit" to
find the drive letter. Remember the letter of your system temlaufwerks.
Exit diskpart with the command and then exit [Enter].
In order to tackle the installation image, you go with the long command line
imagex / capture c: e:. \ install wim "Windows 7 Professional," "Home
Premium Windows 7" / comp ress maximum / flags "HomePrem ium" / verify /
scroll / check
further. Instead of e:, type in both places the one previously
determined drive letter, followed by a colon. With name and description
of your Windows version, in this example twice, "Windows 7 HOME
PREMIUM", enter your corresponding Windows version (make sure the caps).
The same goes for "home premium". Look for the mixed case, here as
"starters", "professional" or "Ultimate". Then press [Enter].
The following packing process can take up to an hour. When he is
finished, shut down the computer with the shutdown command wpeutil and
[Enter].
Now you have created on your virtual PC, the installation archive
"install.wim" in the root directory of the system drive. Now you need to
get this file on your main system.
File containers are: the virtual Windows system on your home is included
in the previously created VHD file. The last change in your virtual
Windows virtual box but has not written directly in the container file.
It has rather a more VHD file created that contains the differences from
the original, called a difference image.
To see how this file is called in your particular case and where it is
located, click on Virtual Box "file manager for virtual media" and fold
the tab "Disks" on. Here you see an entry with the name of the VHD file
created previously. To the left is a small arrow. Click on it to list
the corresponding difference images. These are usually quite illegible
names from seemingly arbitrary strings enclosed in curly brackets. The
left is seen next to one of these entries to another small arrow, then
you also work on this. Repeat the process until you arrive at the lowest
level. Highlight the entry in the lowest level. Then you look further
down in the box next to "place" the path to this difference image on
your main system.
"Install.wim" Extract: Now start the previously installed program
Winimage. Continue with "File, Open." Then select the File Type
drop-down next to the entry "Virtual Hard Disks (*. vhd, *. vud)".
Navigate to the path of the previously determined difference-image now,
and open it.
If the calculated path of the folder "Users" occurs and you do not find
him, instead you open the folder "Users". The folder name will be shown
at German Windows 7 versions usually in German.
You will then prompts Winimage to select the virtual partition whose
contents are to be displayed. Select the virtual system partition from
the list, and click "OK". Click the right mouse button on the file
"install.wim" and select "Extract". Finally, select on "Browse" to
"Desktop" folder on your main system as the extraction destination and
click "OK".
Prepare Windows 7: Click the right mouse button on an empty part of the
Windows desktop ("Desktop" folder) and select "New Folder". Give the new
folder name Win7DVD. Then click on the downloaded ISO file of the first
test version of Windows 7 Enterprise with the right mouse button and
select the menu "Load Image File".
Then click on the Windows icon, select "Computer" and open the virtual
drive. On we go, by holding [Ctrl] and press [A]. Thus, the contents of
the drive is highlighted. With [Ctrl] and [C] to copy the selected
items. Open the previously created folder "Win7DVD", and add everything
using [Ctrl] and [V]. After the copy is complete, open the folder
"Sources" and delete the three files "Ei.cfg", "7 install_Windows
Enterprise.clg" and "Product.inf".
"Install.wim" replace: Now select the first on the Windows work surface
extracted file "install.wim" with [Ctrl] and [C]. Then open the
directory "Win7DVD \ Sources" and add the file with [Ctrl] and [V]
there. Please confirm that you want to overwrite the existing file.
Creating a DVD image: Now you need to make the folder "Win7DVD" a
bootable installation DVD. Click on the Windows icon and select "All
Programs, Microsoft Windows AIK, prompt deployment tools." Enter into
the command line window command
cd x86 \ boot
, and then confirm it with [Enter]. Then you type in this long command line:
oscdimg-h-u2-betfsboot.com-o "% userprofile% \ Desktop \ Win 7DVD" "%
UserProfile% \ Desktop \ Win7DVD \ Win7DVD.iso"
Complete with [Enter], and then wait until the image was created.

Now check the size of the folder "Win7DVD" created file "Win7DVD.iso".
Just click on it with the right mouse button and select in the menu that
opens "Properties". If the file is larger than 4.7 GB, you need a double
layer recordable DVD or a USB memory stick with an appropriate use. If
the image is larger than 8.5 GB, you can not burn it. Then you can
continue only with a USB stick.
Burn DVD-image: Click on the newly created ISO image with the right
mouse button and select the menu "Open with Windows-burner for disk
images." Click the "CD / DVD burner" in the appropriate drive. Put
another check mark next to "Verify disc after burning" before you
finally click on "Burn". Once the burning process, your new
Windows-7-DVD is ready.
USB stick refill, if the generated ISO file is too large for a DVD, you
can create a bootable USB instead stick. Plug in to a sufficiently large
stick to the PC. Then click the Windows icon and select the "Computer".
To format the drive, click the following win-ter with the right mouse
button on its icon and choose "Format" and "start".
After formatting, open the folder "Win7DVD" and check its contents with
[Ctrl] and [A]. Then, hold [Ctrl] and click on the file "Win7DVD.iso" to
remove the marker with her. Then copy the remaining elements marked with
[Ctrl] and [C]. Then open Windows Explorer, the stick, and insert the
copied elements with [Ctrl] and [V].
Make bootable USB flash drive: Click the Windows icon, and type cmd into
the "Search" field. Click the right mouse button on the first entry, and
select "Run as administrator" from the menu. Then appearing in the
command line, type diskpart and press [Enter].
After the list disk command and [Enter] to see all the volumes in
diskpart which are connected to the PC. Determine the basis of the size
(disk) number of your USB stick. Continue with the commands select disk
[disk number] [Enter] and active [Enter]. Then you exit with exit
diskpart [Enter]. Now you have to do with
cd / d "% userprofile% \ Desktop \ Win7DVD \ boot"
confirmed by [Enter], and
bootsect / nt60 [drive letter of the stick]: / mbr
and [Enter] to boot sector write to the stick. Afterwards, your bootable
Windows-7-Stick is ready.