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Create Bootable USB Drive via Command Prompt

This document provides a step-by-step guide on creating a bootable USB drive using the Command Prompt in Windows without any additional software. It details the necessary commands to format the USB drive, create a primary partition, and set up the boot sector. The process requires a USB drive of at least 4 GB and involves using specific disk management commands to prepare the drive for Windows installation media.

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Create Bootable USB Drive via Command Prompt

This document provides a step-by-step guide on creating a bootable USB drive using the Command Prompt in Windows without any additional software. It details the necessary commands to format the USB drive, create a primary partition, and set up the boot sector. The process requires a USB drive of at least 4 GB and involves using specific disk management commands to prepare the drive for Windows installation media.

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How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Without Using Any Software

To create a bootable USB drive manually, we will use the Command Prompt as a Windows default
program. Here are step by step to create a bootable USB drive as the Windows installation media. To
create a bootable USB drive as a Windows installation media, we require at least 4 GB for minimum
capacity. Larger capacity is better. At this moment, I use the USB flash drive with 2 GB of capacity as just
an example. It's due to some reasons that my 4 GB flash drive encountered an unusual problem that i
have to fix later. :D

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".

Type 'diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit Enter. Wait for a while until the DISKPART
program run.

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.

Type 'select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed in the next step then hit Enter.

Type 'clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.

Type 'create partition primary' and hit Enter. Creating a primary partition and further recognized by
Windows as 'partition 1'.

Type 'select partition 1' an hit Enter. Choosing the 'partition 1' for setting up it as an active partition.

Type 'active' and hit Enter. Activating current partition.

Type 'format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter. Formatting current partition as NTFS file system quickly.

Type 'exit' and hit Enter. Leaving DISKPART program but don't close the Command Prompt instead. We
would still need it for next process.

Step 2: Creating Boot Sector

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.

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:.

Type 'cd boot' and hit Enter. Active directory changed to F:\boot>.

Type 'bootsect /nt60 d:' and hit Enter. Creating boot sector on D: drive (USB flash drive).

Type 'exit' and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Until this step we have made a bootable USB
drive sucessfully, and the flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.

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