The Windows 7 Media Creation Tool was a application with a thin wrapper around native Windows imaging and filesystem APIs.
Once the media is created, you can use it to install Windows 7 on a PC. microsoft windows 7 media creation tool
graph LR A[Select ISO] --> BTarget Media B -->|USB| C[Format Drive: FAT32/NTFS] B -->|DVD| D[Load IMAPI Burn Engine] C --> E[Write bootsect /nt60] E --> F[Copy /boot, /sources, /efi] F --> G[Set active partition flag] D --> H[Write ISO to optical media] G --> I[Validate via hash] H --> I The Windows 7 Media Creation Tool was a