How to make Bootable Pendrives or USB

Hi Friends,

Today, I would like to share my experiences which will be very useful to everybody. This is useful for all of us either technical or non-technical.

I am sharing it here confidently, because first I have tried this and its working fine.

Before that I suffered a lots for this thing that How to make bootable pen drive, I tried many things but they didn’t work. As we all know everything on web is not 100% correct. So, personally I faced this issue and got the solution then sharing with you all friends.

Let’s follow the steps and commands.

1: Fist we will see and discuss DISKPART command:

Please insert your USB pen drive to your running computer/laptop.

Run the CMD as administrator as guided below lines.

Go to start search for 'cmd' appears, right click CMD and select "Run as administrator".

Type 'diskpart'  as shown below:

C:\Users>ora-data>diskpart

And hit Enter then wait for result, then type below command and hit enter.

C:\Users>ora-data>list disk

There would be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for hard drive and Disk 1 for your USB pen drive with its total capacity.

Then Select Disk1 (your pen drive) as shown below.

C:\Users>ora-data>select disk1

Then clean your pen drive from below command:

C:\Users>ora-data>clean

Then follow the below commands:

C:\Users>ora-data>create partition primary

Then Select partition 1

C:\Users>ora-data>select partition 1

Then type active and hit enter:

C:\Users>ora-data>active

Format the usb pen drive:

C:\Users>ora-data>format fs=ntfs quick

Then exit:

C:\Users>ora-data>exit

2. Now we will create the Boot Sector:

Here Suppose, that the pen drive name E drive and DVD installer located on drive F drive.

So, first we will navigate our command prompt to F drive as shown below:

By default:

C:\Windows\System32>

Navigate to F drive:

C:\Windows\System32>f:

F:\cd boot

F:\boot>bootsect /nt60 E:

After that type exit and come out.

The flash pen drive is ready to be used as a boot media.


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