Boot Camp 4.0 on MacBook Pro With USB

I'm trying to install Windows 7 onto a Macbook Pro  (2011) with Boot Camp 4.0 (i.e. not the one that lets you make a usb installer for computers without an optical drive). I have a NTFS formatted install USB made with Microsoft's ISO tools. Boot Camp won't recognize it as an install disk and when I try to boot from it, it doesn't show up in the boot menu. Is there any way I can install from the USB drive?

Tim Fall wrote:
I haven't had a burnable disk in years. I have Windows 7 as an ISO.
Good luck.

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