Converting Pen Drive to an Bootable Device on Windows
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.
11. Let us assume that the
flash / USB drive is the D: drive and the DVD installer located on drive F :.
The first step, we will navigate Command Prompt to set installation DVD as its
active directory.
12. By default, Command Prompt's active directory for Administrator
permission is on C:\Windows\System32>.
We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (F:) as its active directory.
Just type 'f:'
then hit Enter, and the active directory changed to F:.
13.Type 'cd
boot' and hit Enter. Active directory changed to F:\boot>.
14. Type 'bootsect
/nt60 d:' and hit Enter. Creating boot sector on D: drive (USB
flash drive).
15. Type 'exit'
and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Until this step we have made a
bootable USB drive successfully, and the flash drive is ready to be used as a
boot media.
16.To install Windows from a
bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole installation files contained
on the DVD installer to flash drive. To do this, open the Command Prompt as in
previous steps. Once it opens, type 'xcopy
f: \ *. * d: \ / E / H / F' and then press Enter. Wait until
all the files in the DVD installer copied to the flash drive. Now bootable USB
drive is ready to be used for installing Windows from flash drive and you're done !
