To Create An x86 and x64 All in one Windows ISO

Windows 10 has been out for a while now and it was offered as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users for the first year. Even after that Windows 7 is still by far the most widely used Windows operating system. Windows 7 is available in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) editions and has Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise versions. Only the Starter edition of Windows 7 does not have a 64-bit version.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the 5 available consumer Windows 7 versions all easily fit on a single layer DVD. Instead of doing that Microsoft released each version as a separate disk and each of those has a separate 32-bit and 64-bit DVD. That’s 9 different DVDs if you want all Windows 7 versions to hand. They are actually all on each DVD but hidden from view by the \Sources\ei.cfg file, delete that and everything with the same architecture becomes available, except Enterprise.

Windows 64-bit is the preferred option because it natively utilizes more than 4GB of memory and can help increase application performance with 64-bit specific versions, such as 64-bit web browsers. Although 32-bit versions of Windows are fading out these days, they are still very useful to install on low memory systems, lower end or old hardware and run perfectly fine as long as you don’t use memory intensive software.
Unlike Windows 10 which has a dual option x86 and x64 install disk available via the Media Creation Tool, Windows 7 has never officially had both 32-bit and 64-bit editions on the same disk. It’s quite possible to create one yourself and have all 9 consumer versions on the same DVD or USB flash drive. All you need is 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 ISO files and the software to do it. Here’s three ways to create your own all in one x86 and x64 Windows 7 install media. 1. WinAIO Maker Professional
The developer of WinAIO Maker Professional, Josh Cell Softwares, also makes some other useful free tools like Advanced Tokens Manager and WinUSB Maker. This program is about as simple as it gets and takes the hard work out of creating an all in one Windows x86 and x64 install media.

To create an all in one ISO image click the AutoAIO button, browse for a working folder where the ISO will be created, then add both the x86 and x64 Windows 7 ISOs. The ei.cfg file that restricts the versions on the disk will be automatically removed during the process. The Enable x64 recovery mode option is useful because without it you won’t be able to use the Windows recovery options on a 64-bit system. Checking the box will create a boot menu with the 64-bit option added. Click Start Compilation and wait a few minutes for the ISO to be created.

Apart from the ease of use, creating an all in one media using WinAIO Maker Professional has two other advantages over doing it manually. Firstly, you have the choice to include both 32-bit and 64-bit recovery options on the same disk. Secondly, you can also perform a repair install for both 32-bit or 64-bit systems (although the 64-bit repair install option didn’t work during testing). For manual methods it’s either x86 or x64, adding both is tons of extra work.

WinAIO Maker is far more capable than just creating an all in one ISO as it can delete specific Windows editions from the WIM file. For example, if you know you won’t need Windows 7 Home Basic or Starter, they can be deleted from the image. It might only save a few hundred Megabytes at best though, so we’d advise you just to leave all 9 versions in place.
There are some other very useful tools available such as creating an ISO from a folder or extracting a folder to an ISO, an MD5/SHA1/CRC32 hash calculator and an option to create an ISO from a DVD. The other built in tool that is quite valuable is WinToUSB which can write any extracted Windows install media folder or your new all in one to a USB flash drive.

WinAIO Maker Professional is a standalone portable executable but does require .NET Framework 3.5, Windows 8 and 10 users will need to install it from Optional Features.

WinAIO Maker is a professional tool to manage, configure, edit and delete images inside the Windows Imaging Format (WIM).

About the Software:

WinAIO Maker is an application to fully manage the Windows Imaging Format files (WIM), that is found on the Windows Installation Media since Windows Vista.
The WIM file is located at \Sources\Install.WIM – It contains all the operating system data, and can be compressed, edited and managed by this software.
Managing this file, it makes it possible to build one Installation Media with multiple Operating System versions.
The AutoAIO module can help to make a media with all x86 and x64 versions of the operating system.
Also it is possible to rename the operating system images inside this file, making a very customizable installation disk.
After all the procedures, Folder2Iso module can creates a bootable ISO image.

Features:

The application has several modules that you can work with, adding professional features to your custom Windows Setup.
Folder2ISO: Create bootable ISO files from a folder that contains Windows Setup files.
ISO2Folder: Extract the ISO Image to a folder that will contains all the Windows Setup files.
HashCalculator: Compute the MD5, SHA1 and CRC32 from any file.
WinToUSB: Create bootable USB Disks using directories.
DVDToISO: Burn any ISO file to a physical DVD media.
AutoAIO: Create All In One ISO from x86 and x64 images from the same Operating System.
Save All Into ISO: Save all WIM Changes to a ISO file.
Name / Description: Change the sub-image name and description in the WIM file.