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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...