The document provides instructions for creating a bootable USB drive using the command prompt in Windows. It outlines the steps to open the command prompt as an administrator, use the "diskpart" and "list disk" commands to select the USB drive, clean and format the drive, and then copy Windows installation files to make the USB drive bootable for installing Windows on other computers.
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2. Using a Pendrive in a place of windows disc is a wonderful idea to choose and if you don’t have any USB Bootable Maker
Software in your computer or maybe if you don’t want to use any of these software’s then there is an another great way to
create a bootable Pendrive by just using your windows cmd comment prompt also with your windows setup files.
Creating a Pendrive bootable by cmd is a very easy and quickest task to do and by just typing some commands on it will make
your drive bootable and after that, you can use it for every windows installation purpose.
This cmd boot conversion will only work on Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 Setups and if you want to create a bootable Pendrive
for Windows XP then you’ll definitely need some software to make this bootable conversion possible for you. If you wanna to
know more about bootable Pendrive or maybe some other bootable software’s then you can try out our another article linked
below.
#How to Make a Bootable USB Pendrive ?
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3. files in order to make those files bootable into your Pendrive.
So, make sure your computer is working on windows operating system to use this cmd prompt for boot conversion and you’ll
also have to make sure about you having all windows setup files in your computer for file transformation on Pendrive.
STEP 1 – Open your Windows Cmd Command Prompt and run it as administrator for typing commands on it. I only suggest you
to open cmd as administrator because the current user command prompt version won’t work because of some administrator
security reasons.
There are so many ways to open cmd on your screen and some commonly used ways are mention in given picture below.
Run command to open cmd – “CMD”
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4. STEP 2 – Just after when your windows cmd opens up, then type a “diskpart” command on it and that will take you to the
Disk Management Utility in the command prompt.
STEP 3 – Now, type “list disk” to show every connect disk in your computer and after that just type “select disk #” (# Is
Your Disk Or I Say Your Pendrive Disk Number). We do this to find our Pendrive disk number in diskpart of cmd and tell our
computer to make it as active to make some future bootable adjustment on it.
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5. STEP 4 – Selecting your Pendrive in diskpart will make your Pendrive active from now on and after that, there are some of the
commands you’ll have to type into your cmd for disk cleanup, partition creation and some other import process which is
definitely needed for boot conversion.
So, there are some commands listed below which you’ll need to type into your command prompt.
Remaining Command for Type It –
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6. Clean
Create partition primary
Select partition 1
Active
Format fs=ntfs quick
Assign
Exit
After typing these command on your cmd you’ve gonna done with this cmd process and you’ll need to go to next step listed
down in this tutorial.
You can see the full command typed in cmd example below –
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7. Now your Pendrive made fully bootable and the only thing which remains now is to copy your Windows Setup files into the
Pendrive. You can use your windows installer disc to transfer setup files into your Pendrive if you having one or you can use an
iso image of your bootable windows image and extract it on your Pendrive for files transformation propose.
So, Now You Have 3 Options to Choose and Those Are –
Transfer files from our computer’s drive to USB, if you having full windows setup files on your computer.
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8. Transfer files from Windows Disc to USB Pendrive, if you having a windows installation disc.
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9. Transfer files from ISO Disk Image to USB Pendrive by direct extracting files on USB.
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10. You’ll have to make sure about that, you only need to transfer windows files, not a single setup folder.
If you just only copied setup folder in our Pendrive then your Pendrive won’t gonna boot when you wanted too.
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