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After I download the ISO for windows 7 64-bit trial through Digital River, and Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool, I begin copying the content into my flash drive. However, when the download tool finishes copying the content, it says the flash driver is unbootable. And sure enough the driver cannot boot even after I select the flash drive to be boot priority. I try many methods suggested on the internet and I find one a software people say on the other forum called "bootsect utility," which they say it's included in the DVD that I don't have. What are the necessary steps to make the driver bootable?

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Ironsounds
Hello... there is a box you have to check in the Windows 7 USB/DVD Utility? to make Bootable... Did you do that?
1.When the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool formats the flash drive during the process above, it does so using NTFS, a file system that some UEFI systems won't boot from if on a USB stick.

To get the USB drive to boot on these computers, you should copy the data from the flash drive onto a folder on your computer, then reformat the flash drive using the older FAT32 file system, and then copy that same data back onto the drive.
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Hello... there is a box you have to check in the Windows 7 USB/DVD Utility? to make Bootable... Did you do that?
1.When the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool formats the flash drive during the process above, it does so using NTFS, a file system that some UEFI systems won't boot from if on a USB stick.

To get the USB drive to boot on these computers, you should copy the data from the flash drive onto a folder on your computer, then reformat the flash drive using the older FAT32 file system, and then copy that same data back onto the drive.
 
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I'm not sure if my flash drive is UEFI, will FAT32 format work definitely?
 
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