Win 7 USB Patcher FREEZING on "Formatting drive"

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   I have an "ASRock H270M-ITX/ac LGA 1151 Intel H270 Mini ITX Motherboard", with an Intel G4400 processor. 
I am trying to use the "Windows 7 USB Patcher ver:2.0.16" (downloaded from the support section of that exact motherboards' ASRock webpage). I am choosing to make a [patched] bootable USB, and am selecting to make that from a Windows 7 ISO file I have on my desktop. It will not get past the "Formatting drive" section. 

I have let it run 3 times now, on 3 different Windows computers (Windows 7 computer, Windows 10 with the same ASRock motherboard in it, and on a Mac running bootcamp with Windows 10), using two different known-working USB drives (previously formatted NTFS, and fat32), for well 2-3 hours on each machine...

Please help as the programs I need to run only work in Windows 7, so running Windows 10 is not an option.

Edited by Dochartaigh - 16 Oct 2017 at 4:17am

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Dochartaigh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 Oct 2017 Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dochartaigh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Win 7 USB Patcher FREEZING on "Formatting drive" Posted: 16 Oct 2017 at 4:03am
	I have an "ASRock H270M-ITX/ac LGA 1151 Intel H270 Mini ITX Motherboard", with an Intel G4400 processor. I am trying to use the "Windows 7 USB Patcher ver:2.0.16" (downloaded from the support section of that exact motherboards' ASRock webpage). I am choosing to make a [patched] bootable USB, and am selecting to make that from a Windows 7 ISO file I have on my desktop. It will not get past the "Formatting drive" section. I have let it run 3 times now, on 3 different Windows computers (Windows 7 computer, Windows 10 with the same ASRock motherboard in it, and on a Mac running bootcamp with Windows 10), using two different known-working USB drives (previously formatted NTFS, and fat32), for well 2-3 hours on each machine... Please help as the programs I need to run only work in Windows 7, so running Windows 10 is not an option. Edited by Dochartaigh - 16 Oct 2017 at 4:17am

ASRock_TSD Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List ASRock_Official Joined: 20 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 8532	Post Options Post Reply Quote ASRock_TSD Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 9:50am
	Dear Dochartaigh, Thank you for choosing ASRock. Regarding your case, please download the Windows 7 USB Patcher from below link and try it again, usually the process will cause over hours, depends on your USB device. Windows 7 USB Patcher for Intel 200 Series: http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Utility/UsbPatcher/Win7UsbPatcher(v2.0.16).zip You can also download "Intel Windows 7 USB 3.0 Creator Utility" and follow the instructions on Intel's official website. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25476/Windows-7-USB-3-0-Creator-Utility Thank you! Yours truly, ASRock TSD

Dochartaigh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 Oct 2017 Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dochartaigh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 Oct 2017 at 11:52pm
	Hello, I would try this yourself and see if it works for you. I have a feeling it won't. I'm also using Sandisk Extreme PRO USB sticks which read/write at well over 200mb/sec (they will write the entire 3+GB Windows ISO to USB stick in about 15-20 seconds for example) - so it's not simply just a matter of waiting longer. I did however get this to work by having your program write the modified Windows image to my hard drive INSTEAD of to the USB stick. Extra steps, and took me an entire day to finally figure this out and get it done (after trying all those hours to get it to write to the USB stick itself), but it worked at least. If you also google this problem you'll find hundreds of posts about this same exact problem happening to others - many people posted on this same forum we're on right now as well. It's a problem with your software - not the end user I'm sorry to say. Edited by Dochartaigh - 18 Oct 2017 at 11:54pm

Hyper1on Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hyper1on Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Dec 2017 at 1:49pm
	The same exact thing is happening to me. When you say 'modified Windows image to my hard drive instead of to the USB stick' you mean just using your main C drive? Where do the resulting unpacked ISO files go? Thanks!