How to write the image of Windows

How to write the image of Windows

Optical disks gradually go into the past: users are increasingly resorting to them, preferring USB drives and electronic cloud storage. Despite this, operating systems still require operations that were once performed using disks. For these cases, there are special tools and programs that mimic the optical disc drive in your computer, creating files with the ISO format, the MDS and MDF, VCD, DAA and many others. In this article, you will learn how to configure and record the image of the Windows system.



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What a program will need

You have a lot of options on this subject, as the utilities today have a huge set. Here is a list of the most popular of them:

  • VirtualCD;
  • Nero Burning ROM;
  • Daemon Tools;
  • Alcohol 120%;
  • Poweriso;
  • Ultraiso;
  • Driveimage;
  • FREEVDF;
  • CloneCD.

It is better to resort or to Daemon Tools Lite Series, or to Ultraiso. These programs can be used for free, they are simple in the setting and intuitively understandable. If you already have a Windows image, then it doesn't matter in which one of them is recorded - you can use another utility at your discretion.

Go to the official website and download the program, this article will use for example. Daemon Tools..



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How to create a Windows image

It is worth understanding that simply the archive with the Windows system is not its image. Image files are also created in Daemon Tools for Windows ISO format is more appropriate.

If you are completely unfamiliar with the program for working with images, you should see another article How to create a disk image

While there is nothing complicated: you need to install the program and wait until it opens.
After that, select the "New Image" section.

From the menu that appears, select another subsection "Create an Image with Data". Please note that this is true only if you have Windows files on your computer. If you want to create an image from a real optical disk, then click on the option "Create an image from the disk".

We will look at the entry with the data, as it is more difficult to figure it out on your own. First select the ISO format from the drop-down line below.

Then select the files themselves by clicking on the plus on the right.

Lay directory with Windows data and select all files, not a folder. Click "Open".

It remains only to click on the line of the location of the future image. You can choose any folder convenient to you in which the image will be saved after creating.

  • Now check that the image is less than 4.38 GB and click on "Start".
  • Creating can take up to an hour, after that the image will appear in the folder you specified.
  • If you already have an image, then feel free to go to the next item.

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How to write ready-made iSO Windows

Having a Windows image, you can record it both on the disk and on the USB media. Open the program and select "Fast Mounting" to speed up the further procedure.

In the window that opens, find your image with the operating system and click Open.

Now make sure that a new virtual drive appeared below. Click on the section "Burn Disc", you may need such items:

  • "Write an image to disk" - if you need to write an image to an optical disk;
  • Select "USB" and then "create a bootable USB" - if you need a USB flash drive with a way.

  • Now find your image by clicking on the three-point icon in the first line.

  • The drive, as a rule, all users have one, so this parameter can not be touched.
  • Check the "Finalize" checkbox, insert the drive into the drive and click "Start". Make sure the disk is enough to write.
  • Now you can install Windows to your computer at any time from your media.

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