To create a bootable USB flash drive

1. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer.

2. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.
3. Type diskpart.
4. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive
letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. The list
disk command displays all the disks on the computer. Note the drive number or drive letter of
the USB flash drive.
5. At the command prompt, type select disk <X>, where X is the drive number or drive letter of
the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER.
6. Type clean, and the click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive.
7. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create part pri, and then click
ENTER.
8. To select the partition that you just created, type select part 1, and then click ENTER.
9. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER.

Important

If your server platform supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), you
should format the USB flash drive as FAT32 rather than as NTFS. To format the partition
as FAT32, type format fs=fat32 quick, and then click ENTER.
10. Type active, and then click ENTER.
11. Type exit, and then click ENTER.
12. When you finish preparing your custom image, save it to the root of the USB flash drive.
13. Insert your Pen drive and press the start button.
14.
Type cmd and right click on it and start this with administrator right.
15.
Now on the command prompt, type the following commands
16.
Diskpart
17.
List disk
18. // List disk command will generate the list of Disk connected to your computer
like Hard disk and USB disk. This will be like in figure.
19. After this
20.
select disk 1 // in my case USB is as disk 1
21.
create partition primary
22. active
23.
format fs=ntfs quick // Format Filesystem=NTFS quick(don’t use Quick for
deep format, just use format fs=ntfs)
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assign
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exit
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29.
30. After this your USB drive is ready to boot any computer just another step
requires.
31. After this, copy all the content of DVD or Windows 7 ISO extract to USB drive.
 32. Done?

33. Now open the command prompt again by typing CMD in run (See more
shortcuts)
34. Now type
35.

36. O: //o: is the path of usb drive, change it as according

37. Cd o:/boot
38.

39. Now proceed as

40. Type
41. Bootsect /nt60 o:
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Create Bootable USB without any software on Windows

10:
 Insert your USB flash drive to your computer.
 Search for ‘cmd’ in Windows 10 from the taskbar, Command Prompt will
appear. Alternatively, you can also open the Command Prompt by
pressing windows+R at the same time and typing in ‘cmd’ in the ‘Run’
window and hitting enter.
  Right click on Command Prompt and select ‘Run as Administrator’ in case
you have searched for cmd in the Windows 10 Taskbar.
 Once the Command Prompt window appears, type diskpart and hit enter. Wait
until the diskpart utility runs in another window.
 In the new diskpart window, type list disk and hit enter. It will show you all
active disks on your computer.
Most probably, you will see two Disk types.

 Disk 0 for hard drive and,

 Disk 1 for your USB Flash Drive with its total capacity.
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Since we are going to work on to create bootable USB drive, we will work with Disk 1.

 Type select disk 1 in the same windows and hit Enter. You will get a
message‘Disk 1 is now the selected disk’. That means, any further operation
that you do will affect your disk 1 directly.
 Type clean and hit Enter to remove all of the data in the USB drive. Clean
command will format your bootable drive. You will get a message like
‘Diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk’.
 Type create partition primary and hit Enter. You will get a message
like Diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
 Type select partition 1 and hit Enter. It will choose partition 1 for setting up it
as an active partition.
 Type active and hit Enter. It will activate the current partition.
 Type format fs=ntfs quick and hit Enter. This command will format your
current partition as NTFS file system quickly.
 Type exit and hit Enter. Exit command will close the Diskpart program. But
do not close the command prompt Windows.

Copying files from an ISO image on your PC/DVD to USB manually:

Now all you need to do open the files inside the DVD or ISO file, copy it and paste inside
USB manually. This will make your USB drive bootable.
Copying files from a DVD to USB using CMD:

Let us assume that the USB drive is the G: drive and the DVD installer is located on drive
E:. And, you also have inserted a DVD inside the DVD drive from where you want to
copy the data to create a bootable USB drive.
By default, Command Prompt’s active directory for Administrator permission is on
C:\Windows\System32>. We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (E:) as its
active directory. Remember there should be a DVD inside DVD installer.

 Just type E: then hit Enter, and then the active directory is changed to E.
 Type cd boot and hit Enter. Now the active directory is changed to E:\boot>
 Type bootsect /nt60 g: and hit Enter. It will create the boot sector on G: drive
(USB Flash drive).
 Type exit and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt.
Until this step, we have been successfully able to create a bootable USB drive and the
flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.

To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole
installation files contained on the DVD installer to the USB flash drive.

 To do this, open the Command Prompt as in previous steps.

 Once the command prompt is open, type copy e:\*.* /s/e/f g: and then
press Enter. Wait until all the files in the DVD installer are copied onto the
flash drive. Please double check the drive letter of your USB and DVD. Here,
here de is the drive letter of the DVD drive that holds the Windows DVD, g is
the drive letter that you assigned to the external USB Stick.
Now bootable USB drive is ready to be used for installing Windows from the Flash drive
and you’re done.