Windows 7 SP1 64bit August 2018 ISO Size

[TearsInTheRain]

One thing I did not think about at the time when downloading this was the actual file size.

Presumably because of all the updates included the ISO is over 5GB and that is without the language packs and other version (HE, HP, Pro, Ultimate) content too.

The original Window 7 discs I have are also near to or over 5GB so they must also be on dual layer disc media.

In the August 2018 Update ISO download that is the only option if you want to create a disc on standard DVD+-R/RW but other non-updated versions (if available now) may be able to be pared down to <4.7GB/4.37GiB by removing the language pack (1.3+GB), if present, and maybe by removing the other versions too. How you do that properly I'm not sure as that brings it back to my other thread here asking about the way the download's install.wim is populated.

The alternative and seems is the only option if you want to create a universal Win7 installer with language packs and updates is to use the ISO to create a bootable USB drive installer instead.

[mooms]

Who burn DVD in 2019 anyways ?

[TearsInTheRain]

I use them for certain specialised reasons connected with my interest in retro console gaming. Too boring to explain but I wouldn't be without a disc drive on a PC. It is still a useful tool and many of us, at those least wanting to keep on the right side of legality, own their original OS disc(s) and likely at some point have either installed or reinstalled Windows using them rather than by a USB storage device.

Up until 3 years ago I was using a WinXP laptop that did not even support booting from a USB device.

It is often the simplest easiest solution to use a disc.

[mooms]

Most of the contemporary PCs and laptops did not have any optical drive, Windows & Office have been offered as digital download since a long time, when you buy Office in a physical store, you just buy a key, and you need to download the setup.

Optical media is the past.

[TearsInTheRain]

I've been having 'discussions' about that on forums like this for almost a decade. Physical disc media is not dead - yet.

Even in this particular case where the ISO size is such that it requires DL disc media if I'd had it I would have probably installed the OS by now.

Instead I've had to research the whole process of how to get it onto a bootable flash drive. Initially I was seduced by all the articles recommending MS's own "Windows USB/DVD Download Tool" before finding Rufus. Even in creating the modified ISO I suspect I've made it more complicated than it should be by using CMD tools when I'm pretty sure any disc creation program (ImgBurn) could have made a bootable ISO from the updated Win7 disc contents with far less hassle. 

[mooms]

If you have a "big" USB key, you can use Easy2boot: once the key prepared, you can copy iso files directly on it, and you can put as many iso as you want: Windows, Linux, etc...

 

http://www.easy2boot.com/download/

[TearsInTheRain]

Thanks for the info.

I've actually installed Win7 SP1 Pro 64bit now. Rufus worked for me and the install from the flash drive it prepared went almost without a hitch and the OS licence activated with the key I'd bought too.

A few driver issues but after those were sorted everything is working OK. Still a lot of work to go before all the programs I want are installed and all the Windows updates since likewise.

I think I may need to install the recent SHA-2 only Windows update first though.

Does anyone here know about that and whether it is being backdated to cover earlier Windows updates?   

 

[erpster9]

On 8/11/2019 at 8:58 AM, mooms said:

Who burn DVD in 2019 anyways ?

I do sometimes - I got the last batch of DVD+RW discs from my local Staples store in southern California at the end of August and I sometimes burn those original Win7 SP1 ISO images (not the Aug 2018 ones) onto rewrite-able DVDs.  for the Aug 2018 Win7 ISO images, dual layered DVDs (DVD+R DL) are required as I also got those earlier in the year - also from Staples.

 

On 8/19/2019 at 3:55 PM, TearsInTheRain said:

I think I may need to install the recent SHA-2 only Windows update first though.

Does anyone here know about that and whether it is being backdated to cover earlier Windows updates?   

sometimes the SHA-2 only updates (like the KB4474419 update originally released back in March 2019) for Win7 get revised to fix newly discovered problems with it [KB4474419 got a V2 release in August and now got a V3 release this September].

so just install the revised KB4474419 update along with the latest servicing stack update for Windows 7 (minimum KB4490628 update but that update has been replaced by the KB4516655 update this September) and you're all set.

Edited September 25, 2019 by erpster9

[sharkPkamk]

I've tried using ISO to create bootable USB drive installers,i downloaded iso file from Microsoft,but i realized i didn't need it.

For Windows 7,just need it: https://www.recoverywindowspassword.com/create-bootable-windows-7-usb.html

For other OS,i looked at other pages,and it seemed to do the same thing.

 

Edited October 21, 2019 by sharkPkamk