In this blog, We discussed How To Make Flash Drive Bootable Using CMD?
Please note that you
need a flash drive with a storage capacity of 4-8 GB.,
4 GB for Windows XP, 7, 8, and 8 GB for
Windows 8.1, 10 & 11,
and the downloaded iso file of Windows.
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Follow these steps to make flash drive bootable using CMD
1. Insert your Flash Drive and go to start. Search
for CMD.
2. Right-click on it and Run as
Administrator.
3. Once the command prompt is open.
Type diskpart and hit enter. It will enter into the disk partition management mode.
4. Type list disk and hit
enter. Here you can see all the disks on your computer. It doesn’t show disk
partitions but lists the connected disk to your computer.
5. After you get the list of disks, find your
flash drive by size. Here mine is 14 GB which
is Disk 2.
Now let’s select
the flash drive by typing select disk <disk no.> e.g. select
disk 2 and hit enter.
6. Once the USB flash drive
is selected, type clean and press Enter.
This command will erase everything from the flash drive.
Make sure it does not contain your important files.
7. Now, you need to make your flash drive a primary
partition
Type create partition primary and
hit enter.
8. Once the disk is a primary partition, make it an
active drive.
Type active and hit enter on
your keyboard. The command will activate the flash drive.
9. Now, format the flash drive.
Type format fs=fat32 quick and
hit enter. This command will format the flash drive in quick mode.
The early version of Windows 10 supported
FAT32, but Windows 10 versions 1903, 1909, 2004, 20H2, and later does not
support FAT32.
10. Once the flash drive is formatted, you may not see
it on This PC.
To get it back, you need to assign a literal to it,
type assign, and hit enter.
All done, you just made your USB flash drive bootable using cmd.
Close this command prompt.
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Now, Install Windows
10 Using a USB bootable flash drive
The bootable USB is ready, you can copy the Windows files,
and ready to go.
1. You must copy windows files from
the PC to the flash drive. If you have a .iso file
of Windows, then extract it using win rar.
2. After extracting windows files, copy all files and paste them to the bootable Flash drive.
It may take some time to copy the files since Windows
files take around 4 GB on the disk. The speed also depends on the flash drive.
Once done, you are ready to install Windows using
this flash drive. Remove and re-insert the flash disk, and it will get
the windows setup icon which confirms that it is
bootable media now.
To install Windows with this bootable flash drive, insert it into the computer and hit the boot key. From the list of bootable devices, select your flash drive and proceed to Windows installation.
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