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How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Without Using Any Software

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To create a bootable USB drive manually, we will use the Command Prompt as a
Windows default program. Here are step by step to create a bootable USB drive as
the Windows installation media. To create a bootable USB drive as a Windows
installation media, we require at least 4 GB for minimum capacity. Larger capacity
is better. At this moment, I use the USB flash drive with 2 GB of capacity as just an
example. It's due to some reasons that my 4 GB flash drive encountered an unusual
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Step 1: Using DISKPART command

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1. Insert your USB flash drive to your running computer. As the first step, we need
to run Command Prompt as administrator. To do this, we need to find cmd by
typing 'cmd' in the search box on Windows Start Menu. After search result for
'cmd' appears, right click on it and select "Run as administrator".
2. Type 'diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit Enter. Wait for a
while until the DISKPART program run.
3. Type 'list disk' to view active disks on your computer and hit Enter. There would
be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for hard drive and Disk 1 for
your USB flashdrive with its total capacity.
4. Type 'select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed in the next
step then hit Enter.
5. Type 'clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.
6. Type 'create partition primary' and hit Enter. Creating a primary partition and
further recognized by Windows as 'partition 1'.
7. Type 'select partition 1' an hit Enter. Choosing the 'partition 1' for setting up it
as an active partition.
8. Type 'active' and hit Enter. Activating current partition.
9. Type 'format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter. Formatting current partition as NTFS
file system quickly.
10. Type 'exit' and hit Enter. Leaving DISKPART program but don't close the
Command Prompt instead. We would still need it for next process.

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How To Make Pendrive Bootable

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I created the drive successfully - BUT! It only allows you to install

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I Have one Solution to make a bootable pendrive Using CMD

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1. You Need to run Command Prompt as administrator
2.Type diskpart and press enter
3.Type list disk then press enter, You'll See the list of partitions are
available
4.select disk x (Here x is the disk number of the pendrive partition)
5.then type clean and press enter
6.Type create primary partition then press enter
7.Then type create partition primary press enter
8.Type active then press enter
9.Type format fs=fat32 quick and press enter
10.then the final step type assign. After typed assign one popup window
appear.
just copy the windows files from the disk and paste in to that window.
thats it..
You have the bootable pendrive!!!!!

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Hi.
Not an expert in these
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matters. When I type 'cd boot' to change the

directory it says "The system cannot find the path specified".
I don't have a WinXP CD, I am using a bootable image file mounted as a
virtual disk.

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I had the same problem. Not sure if these instructions here are complete.
guide that work for me. Hope this helps you also! Here is
the guide I used:
Guide :: http://www.cyberexcuse.com/2015/08/3-step-to-create-bootableusb-pendrive.html3 (http://www.cyberexcuse.com/2015/08/3-step-tocreate-bootable-usb-pendrive.html3)
Video :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mwnVwiA7RA

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bro just run cmd in admin mode from my computer search

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dhruvk2 (/member/dhruvk2/)

i made my pen drive bootable many times but this time 'bootsect /nt60
is denied' message is coming. my paths are
correct but still...

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pls pls pls help me.

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I had the same problem. Not sure if these instructions here are
another guide and after entering the 'assign' then
'exit' commands, I simply copied over the files from my install disc
to the pen drive. That takes about 20 minutes. When that was
done, I removed and then re-inserted the pen drive and the 'run
setup.exe.' install screen came up in autorun showing the
operating system can now be installed from the pen drive. Hope
this helps! Here is the guide I used:

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complete. I used

http://blogs.technet.com/b/chenley/archive/2011/10...
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That was so much easier than the first one I made. I did not use the quick format
option though.
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2 months ago

I have got new laptop with DOS and I have got window 7 image in pen
7 to my computer ?

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harvinder (/member/harvinder/)

i have try it on win 8 and it works

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PavanJ1 (/member/PavanJ1/)

Are you sure that Step-2 really creates a boot sector or it just creates a
boot record onto the flash drive.

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are the both things same?/

abdulraheem.jeeme (/member/abdulraheem.jeeme/)

4 months ago

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find out the similar article here (http://itsignal.blogspot.com/2015/03/usbtype-windows-bootable-tool-exe-free.html)

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9 months ago

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9 months ago

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How can i perform the same in Linux?

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RendiN (/member/RendiN/) (author)

nachiketb

Linux has an easier way because it has iso file formats, you just
everything goes easier.

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I used this manual method because I was lazy to make an iso file
from the Windows installation files. :)

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Which versions of windows does this work for?

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gravityisweak

so far worked well for Windows XP and Windows 7, but I have not
Windows 8 yet.

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I think the method has the same way, even if different, it might just
how to make the boot sector :)

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