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I have a Toshiba Satellite P745 Laptop.

I bought a new Kingston UV400 SSDNow SSD 120GB. I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04 as my OS (in laptop). I've downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit yesterday, because I want to change my OS to Windows 7.

After putting the SSD inside an enclosure, I did the following steps:

  1. Right-clicked the .iso file of Windows 7.
  2. Pointed to Open With -> Disk Image Writer.
  3. Wrote the image to SSD.

After that I put my SSD inside my laptop to install Windows 7, but it shows me this error:

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The boot sequence is as follows:

  1. HDD / SSD

  2. USB

  3. ODD

  4. LAN

Update: My HDD properly boots Ubuntu in my laptop, but I cannot do it in SSD.

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    That's not how it works. You cannot directly boot from an ISO file. You need to burn the ISO image to a DVD and boot into it to install Windows.
    – bwDraco
    Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 6:17
  • This question is basically: "How do I install Windows 7?" with a misleading title.
    – jiggunjer
    Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 10:07

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I don't think writing an OS installer to a SSD directly is quite right, and disk image writer may not be right tool for the job - it essentially DDs the contents of the ISO to a drive when usually some extra work needs to be done to convert a livecd to a liveiso. This Askubuntu question suggests a few options - of which karel's option of winusb seems the best

Write it to an USB drive - Boot that and install from that to the SSD. Alternately use a optical drive burner software like brasero or k3b to burn the image to a suitable optical disk.

There's ways to directly apply a windows install to a drive, but none would work from linux

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