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Making Bootable USB

This document provides instructions to create a bootable USB drive from Windows Vista or 7 using the DISKPART and BOOTSECT commands in an elevated command prompt. It involves formatting the USB drive to NTFS, copying the Windows installation files from an optical drive to the USB, and using BOOTSECT to make the USB drive bootable. The process takes just a few steps of selecting and preparing the USB drive in DISKPART, changing to the optical drive, and using BOOTSECT to set the USB as a bootable drive for installing Windows.

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Making Bootable USB

This document provides instructions to create a bootable USB drive from Windows Vista or 7 using the DISKPART and BOOTSECT commands in an elevated command prompt. It involves formatting the USB drive to NTFS, copying the Windows installation files from an optical drive to the USB, and using BOOTSECT to make the USB drive bootable. The process takes just a few steps of selecting and preparing the USB drive in DISKPART, changing to the optical drive, and using BOOTSECT to set the USB as a bootable drive for installing Windows.

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bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7

to create a bootable USB.


1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data
from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.
2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search fi
eld and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All program
s >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:
DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB d
rive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.
4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit ente
r. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these comma
nds do.
SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Don t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next
step. Just minimize it.
5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter o
f the optical drive and USB media. Here I use D as my optical (DVD) drive letter a
nd G as my USB drive letter.
6. Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:
6.1. Change directory to the DVD s boot directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot
6.2. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7
image. I m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the co
mputer:
bootsect /nt60 g:
(Where G is your USB drive letter)
7. Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.
You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootab
le DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current mot
herboards support this feature).
Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a boot
able USB on XP computer.

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