Booting from Win 7 bootable USB flash drive?

What I thought would be rather simple has turned really frustrating, I wanted to install Windows 7, on my iMac, on a different partition.
I don't have a retail DVD but I have the product key for activation. So I downloaded the ISO Image from Microsoft. First I burnt it into DVD-R and booted it. It ended up getting stuck on 0% in Expanding Files. Then I tried to 'burning' it into USB and make it bootable, but I could not boot the USB flash drive on the Mac. How can I boot it? (I used the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool)
Thanks

I don't know about the answers to your issues, as I have never tried any disks that large.  But it would probably be wise not to mention that you are trying to do this on a non Arch system, as now I am pretty sure you will not recieve the help you desire.
I don't mean to say that I encourage you to try to dupe our community into helping you with your debian system by not mentioning it.  But it seems pretty silly to come to the Arch threads looking for debian support, even if it is a universal (os independent) issue.

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