Saturday, January 7, 2012

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Unable to Copy Files


I was planning to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my netbook so I downloaded Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool by Microsoft allows you to create bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview. This is specially useful for installing Windows operating system on netbooks or computers without optical disc drive.

While it starts to creating bootable USB device, it stopped and shows an error message "We were unable to copy your files. Please check your USB device and the selected ISO file and try again."

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool - Creating bootable USB device

Well, don't fret. Neither your USB thumb drive spoiled nor ISO file causing the error. I've found a guide to fix this. UPDATE: Disable Antivirus first. Open command prompt with admin rights and run the diskpart tool:

diskpart
list disk
select disk # (# is the number of your USB. Make sure you selected the correct drive)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format quick fs=fat32
assign
exit

When you done, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool should be able to copy files to your USB thumb drive.
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40 comments:

  1. GuestFebruary 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM

    You are my hero ;)

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  2. LemonFebruary 7, 2012 at 2:49 PM

    You're welcome. :)

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  3. CrezynMarch 23, 2012 at 10:50 PM

    Thanks for this info, this is really helpful..

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  4. XeoNApril 9, 2012 at 3:28 AM

    Thanks a lot

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  5. LemonApril 9, 2012 at 1:18 PM

    Glad it helps =)

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  6. Mike KennedyApril 20, 2012 at 7:08 AM

    I was perplexed as to why I was getting this error. This worked, thanks!

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  7. LemonApril 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM

    You're welcome. =) Microsoft should have fixed this long time ago.

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  8. Samuel AngelesMay 3, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    thanks

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  9. LemonMay 5, 2012 at 2:20 AM

    My pleasure.

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  10. Guest to this blodspotMay 5, 2012 at 2:33 PM

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)     :D       ):-)  

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  11. Guest to this blogspotMay 5, 2012 at 2:34 PM

     we all know bill is a eugenicist.  thats why they ineject the poor kids..

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  12. LemonMay 5, 2012 at 3:08 PM

    No problem. Have a nice day.

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  13. GuestMay 8, 2012 at 3:00 PM

    if this wont work anyways, disable ur anti-vir and it will work fine :)

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  14. GuestMay 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM

    I may or may not but definitely love you. I've been trying for hours and you saved me. SOooooooo many thanks

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  15. LemonMay 24, 2012 at 7:01 PM

    No problem. Glad it works for you.

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  16. ToddJune 2, 2012 at 6:18 AM

    Thanks dude, worked for me.

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  17. ToddJune 2, 2012 at 6:20 AM

    And I felt like a boss doing that on prompt hahaha!

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  18. LemonJune 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM

    Glad it helped. Playing around with command line is cool. Matrix-like.

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  19. mocinJune 12, 2012 at 7:52 PM

    it worked , thnx alot

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  20. Jeffrey GamaJune 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM

    worked like a charm... really awesome solution... thnx... :)

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  21. xyz25June 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM

    This is the same thing as going into the partition tool thing (idk what it is called) and doing it manually, but just in cmd am I correct? But anyways, if it doesn's work still after you do this, disabling my antivirus worked perfectly.

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  22. LemonJune 20, 2012 at 1:23 PM

    Yes, thanks for the heads up.

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  23. LemonJune 20, 2012 at 1:23 PM

    Glad it helps.

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  24. LemonJune 20, 2012 at 1:25 PM

    Disable anti-virus should allows the "clean" command to proceed.

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  25. BaaliJune 22, 2012 at 6:28 PM

    Thank you so much :) It worked like a charm :) #ThumbsUpBro

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  26. LemonJune 23, 2012 at 2:02 AM

    That's great to hear. ^_^

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  27. fgbvbJune 27, 2012 at 6:09 AM

    after making usb bootable my quickheal antivirus shows virus in autorun.inf and it does not boot

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  28. LemonJuly 4, 2012 at 11:45 PM

    After executed the commands above, your usb flash drive is clean as a whistle. It is safe to turn off your antivirus, as long as your ISO image file is a genuine Windows. You won't go wrong with it.

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  29. Ashley RodanJuly 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM

    Wow, the last thing I would of thought of, ANTI VIRUS!!
    That worked like a charm, I was just about to give up.


    Im running trend micro BTW

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  30. andiAugust 4, 2012 at 9:18 PM

    even with this tipps i had a problem. turns out: you have to turn off the antivirus software, at least mine (avira antivir) for the tool to work

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  31. andiAugust 4, 2012 at 9:23 PM

    wow, now i see that everybody had that thought with the antivirus already, could have saved me a lot of work. that DISQUS system does not really work great for me on IE 9 with Windows 7 - maybe it should be tweaked if not replaced. I did not see the posts in the first lace, had to change the Dicussion>Newest setting, plus it lags terribly...

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  32. LemonAugust 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM

    Apologize for the inconvenience. I've updated the post so that others will notice it.


    Thanks.

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  33. thatguy11235August 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM

    Thank you so much. I was able to get it to work after following these simple steps.

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  34. Andrew LamAugust 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM

    Thanks! Worked perfectly

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  35. Chris RexSeptember 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM

    Disabled AVG, ran these exact steps and the tool unformats the flash drive and gives me the error message. WTF?

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  36. ArthurHOctober 19, 2012 at 4:48 AM

    Thanks it work

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  37. Sweetkiss KwonyuriDecember 21, 2012 at 9:40 PM

    thank you , i'm same

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  38. ahmedMarch 31, 2013 at 6:31 AM

    i havent Firewall and have win xp what should i do?

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  39. RuiAugust 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM

    thanks, disable antivirus works for me :)

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  40. micahJune 7, 2014 at 1:36 PM

    I did this and it worked better, but got stuck on 99% and after a while, failed, followed by the same message. help?

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