Efi Windows 7 Iso
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The reason is that (despite what many would like to convinced themselves otherwise) Windows 7 is an old OS and was NEVER designed by Microsoft to support 32-bit UEFI boot and installation. As such is is missing criticial pieces, such as a bootia32.efi bootloader (which is not something you can replace with the first bootia32.efi you see, or even the bootia32.efi from later versions of Windows). This article describes how to create an International Standards Organization (ISO) image for a Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) CD-ROM for Windows Server 2008. This CD-ROM starts the computer by using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware.
- I looked at https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ to see if my question has already been answered.
- I performed a search in the issue tracker for similar issues, using keywords relevant to my problem.
- I clicked the
Logbutton in Rufus and copy/pasted the log into the line that says<FULL LOG>below. - The log I am copying is the FULL log, starting with the line
Rufus version: x.y.z- I have NOT removed any part of it.
Additionally (if applicable):
- I ran a bad blocks check, by clicking the 'bad blocks' check box in Rufus, and confirmed that my USB is not defective
- I also tried one or more of the following:
- Using a different USB drive
- Plugging the USB into a different port
- Running Rufus on a different computer
- If using an ISO image, I clicked on the
#button (at the bottom of the Rufus interface), to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.
Issue description
Good day
I hope you can help me out.
I have a Microsoft Nextbook on which I am trying to install Windows 7 64bit. I know that my UEFI bootloader is a 32bit bootloader as I managed to load Ubuntu a long time ago (had to get the 32bit bootia32 files and all that).
I created my bootable flash drive using Rufus 2.11 and chose the following options:
GPT Partioning Scheme for UEFI
NTFS File System
Used a genuine Windows 7 DVD from which I create an ISO image
I notice the following:
A folder gets created by rufus in the same directory as my source Windows 7 ISO. This folder has 2 subfolders (boot and Rufus). Each contains 3 files:
Boot contains bootarm, bootia32, bootx64
Rufus contains ntfs_arm, ntfs_ia32, ntfs_x64
After my bootable flash drive gets created by Rufus 2.11, I plugged it into my nextbook and it booted into Grub, saying that it cannot find 'efi/boot/Rufus/ntfs_ia32'. I proceeded to copy the file from the location above onto my flashdrive into '/efi/Rufus/ntfs_ia32'. I plugged my flashdrive back into my Nextbook and it gave me the attached photo of my error.
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I tried replacing the bootia32 file that rufus automatically creates with the one above, but same error. (I dont know if they are exactly the same files therefore I tried both. I got the same error below both times)
I also extracted the file out of the Windows 7 ISO in the sources folder (the one you need to rename to bootia32.efi), but then I get 'Unsupported' error (but I dont think the latter error is of importance as the file size is so much different from the one Rufus creates but I attached the image just in case it is helpful).
Windows 7 Iso Uefi Boot
If you need more information please let me know, or if you need me to test some things also.
Thank you in advance