Showing posts with label Boot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boot. Show all posts

Tuesday 23 August 2016

How to Create a Bootable USB Flash drive

Create a Bootable USB Flash drive using Diskpart



Follow these steps to create an USB bootable flash drive

Step 1 : Plug in the USB Flash drive in to a working Windows machine.
Step 2 : Open command prompt with administrator privileges.
Step 3 : Type diskpart and press enter on the opened command prompt window.
Step 4 : Type list disk and press enter to show all connected disks and drivers on your Windows machine.
Step 5 : Note the drive number or drive letter of your plugged USB Flash drive.
Step 6 : Type select disk <q> to select the disk ( where "q" is the drive number or drive letter of the USB Flash drive) and then press enter.
Step 7 : type clean and then press enter on the command prompt window, it will format the drive.
Step 8 : To create a new Primary partition on the USB Flash drive, type create part pri and then press enter
Step 9 : to select the partition that you just created on the above step type select part 1 on the command prompt window and press enter.
Step 10 : to format the selected partition type format fs=ntfs quick and then click enter.
( if you want to create an fat32 file system change ntfs into fat32 on the command line )
Step 11 : Type activate and press enter to activate the partition
Step 12 :Type exit and then press enter to close the command prompt window.
Save the bootable image into the root of the USB Flash drive and Enjoy...

How to Boot into Safe mode on Windows 8 and 8.1

Boot into Safe mode on Windows 8 and 8.1

Are you struggling to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1? Have you tried pressing both F8 and Shift+F8 and they don't work? That's because the boot has become so fast that it literally cannot be interrupted by any of your keypresses
Here am sharing the simplest way to Boot into Safe mode on Windows 8 and 8.1.

FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS :-

Step 1 : Logout your Windows machine and go to login screen.
Step 2 : press and hold shift and then restart your Windows machine

Step 3 : it will boot up in to troubleshoot, and there you can find safe mode.

Enjoy..