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Issues with windows vista/7 ISO's with ventoy - johnson - 08-26-2025
Hi,
I apologise if this went in the wrong forum.
Recently I tried ventoy to hopefully not have gazilion drives just to install each OS. I put the following ISOs on it which are known good:
windows 7 home premium x64
vista x64 all versions sp1
vista x86 all versions sp1
windows 7 pro x64
After I got into the boot menu I selected vista x86 and I got blinking underscore when I did normal boot. So I tried wimboot mode but that resulted in the setup not being able to load some disk driver.
I then selected vista x64 and it seemed to go smoothly until I got to the partition creation wizard. After it I got an error "setup couldn't find an valid partition table".
I also couldn't boot any ISO in normal mode. All had to be booted using wimboot mode.
I lastly tried the win 7 home premium x64 and I got an windows asking me to point to a driver for the USB/CD install disk.
Hardware I used:
Known good 32GB USB stick (no problems if I mount any ISO using rufus)
NTT model 8581 Windows Vista era laptop (boots normally with USBs which only have one ISO written on it).
Any ideas how can I fix it? This laptop doesn't support secure boot and the Ventoy USB drive was made without secure boot option.
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RE: Issues with windows vista/7 ISO's with ventoy - Steve2926 - 09-09-2025
https://ventoy.net/en/isolist.html
Vista is not in the list
A no valid partition error might be because your disk was previously a GPT disk. You may need to use diskpart to clean it and convert mbr
win 7 may not contain USB drivers. You may need to find an ISO with added USB drivers.
RE: Issues with windows vista/7 ISO's with ventoy - johnson - 09-22-2025
(09-09-2025, 10:03 PM)Steve2926 Wrote: https://ventoy.net/en/isolist.htmlI did double check if the USB disk is GPT, and it wasn't. I have already wiped it by "clean" command in diskpart.
Vista is not in the list
A no valid partition error might be because your disk was previously a GPT disk. You may need to use diskpart to clean it and convert mbr
win 7 may not contain USB drivers. You may need to find an ISO with added USB drivers.
As for the vista being unsupported, I just wanted to check if it's really not going to work. Let's focus on the w7 ISO now.
Any ideas?