Hi guys many times times we need a pen drive which is bootable for insalling a new window. And there is a method of making a pen drive bootable using the cmd. And it is not so time consuming. So here is the process step by step:-
(1) Type “diskpart” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”.
It will good before going to next step that you should disconnect all other external hard disk, flash/pen drive etc. because accidently these drive can be formatted. So taking precaution is good. Only one pen drive with minimum 4 GB should be connected. Save all the data from the pen drive because it will be formatted in one of the following step.
It will good before going to next step that you should disconnect all other external hard disk, flash/pen drive etc. because accidently these drive can be formatted. So taking precaution is good. Only one pen drive with minimum 4 GB should be connected. Save all the data from the pen drive because it will be formatted in one of the following step.
(2) After last step type “list disk” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”.
This will show all disk connected to the system like DISK 0, Disk 1, and so on with “Status”, “Size” , “Free” etc.. We can recognize the pen drive with size. Disk 0 will be the system disk in which the windows OS is installed. In this tutorial Disk 1 is the pen drive (3855MB=4GB). This pen drive is going to be a bootable pen drive.
This will show all disk connected to the system like DISK 0, Disk 1, and so on with “Status”, “Size” , “Free” etc.. We can recognize the pen drive with size. Disk 0 will be the system disk in which the windows OS is installed. In this tutorial Disk 1 is the pen drive (3855MB=4GB). This pen drive is going to be a bootable pen drive.
(3) Type “select disk 1” inside the command prompt and hit “ENTER”. It will select the disk 1 (pen drive) for all coming steps. In my case the pen drive is disk 1 and you can identify it by the size of your pen drive.
(4) Type “clean” and hit “ENTER”. It will erase all the data from the pen drive.
(4) Type “clean” and hit “ENTER”. It will erase all the data from the pen drive.
Fig.8-Type clean And Enter
(4) Type “create partition primary” and hit “ENTER”. It will create a primary partition in pen drive. (Fig.9)
Fig.9-Type create partition primary And Enter
(5) Type “select partition 1” and hit “ENTER”. It will select the partition created in the last step. (Fig.10)
Fig.10-Type select partition 1 And Enter
(6) Type “format fs = ntfs quick” and hit “ENTER”. It will format the pen drive quickly with NTFS file type. (Fig.11)
Fig.11-Type format fs=ntfs quick And Enter
(7) Type “active” and hit “ENTER”. It will make partition as active for booting after restarting the computer. If this step is missed then computer will not boot from the pen drive. (Fig.12)
Fig.12-Type active And Enter
(8) Type “exit ” and hit “ENTER” to close the diskpart and close the command prompt window. (Fig.13)
Fig.13-Type exit And Enter
Now the pen drive has become bootable. Now all the files from root of Windows operating system setup DVD or ISO has to copy inside the pen drive root.
So open the Windows setup file from DVD or ISO and copy all file by selecting with “Ctrl+A” and paste it inside the pen drive’s root folder as shown in the figure. (Fig.14)
Fig.14-Copying All Files And Pasting It
After complete copy, the pen drive will be a bootable for Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS completely. You just need to “Restart” your computer. “Restart” your computer. When BIOS screen appears then press “F12” key. It will show the options to boot from CD/DVD drive, hard disk and pen drive. Just scroll down to pen drive and hit“Enter”. Your system will boot from pen drive. Now you can install windows OS.
