Paul Chilton electronics, programming, server administration

21Apr/100

Bootable USB Drive

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If you need to boot of a usb drive in order to install an operating system then follow these steps on a Windows machine in order to make the drive bootable.

C:\Windows\system32>diskpart

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 3834 MB 0 B


DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick

100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\Windows\system32>exit

Now, just copy the files located on Windows CD/DVD.

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