How to make a pendrive bootable?

in technology •  7 years ago 

Creating a usb pendrive using command prompt is not hard, it is one of the most common ways to create a bootable usb.
This method does not work if your operating sistem is windows xp or windows 8 , you cannot select the primary partition in comand prompt.

You just need to follow these simple steps:

  1. First step is to obtain the windows files from somewhere and save them to a folder in your pc. You can rip a windows dvd , or if you have the iso image file you can open it with magic disc or daemon tools or even winrar , and you need to copy the whole content to a folder anywhere in your pc , you just need to make sure you know where it is located.

Make sure your usb stick is inserted, go to start search cmd , right click the file and select run as administrator. The command prompt will appear, now you need to write the following comands:

  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • select disk 1
  • clean
  • create partition primary
  • select partition 1
  • active
  • format fs=ntfs
  • assign
  • exit
2. Now you have to extract/copy iso file into this flashdrive.

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