Monday, November 5, 2018

How to make a bootable Pendrive

How to make a bootable Pendrive
How to make a bootable Pendrive
Hey Folks, in this world obsessed with digital tech you must have someday or the other faced this issue of copying the content from the CD and or ISO file onto a USB and flash the same from the drive. And many times you must have either downloaded some Softwares or searched the web to create a Bootable USB or in Layman's language a Bootable Pendrive as nowadays pen drive is easy to use and Optical disks are no longer fashionable.
So if you are one of those who download some sort of software just to Boot the USB then we have a great news for you as from now onwards you are not supposed to boot the Pen Drive using any Malicious or 3rd party app as in this post we will be assisting you with just simple Commands that will Boot the drives in just fraction of minutes.

So lets start with things required to make a USB Bootable -- You need a Computer/Laptop (Because anyhow you gonna Boot the Drive on this device as well :p) , A US Flash Drive(Pendrive) , a CD having the files that need to be booted say Windows OS setup or a related ISO file. 
That's all required now just sit back and Follow the below-mentioned steps and you will be able to make a bootable drive --

To create a bootable USB flash drive

  1. Insert a USB flash drive into a computer.
  2. Now Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.
  3. Type in this in Cmd -->  diskpart  Hit "Enter". 
  4. In the new command line typelist disk, and click ENTER. This command will display all the active disks/drives on the computer. Make kindly make a note of the USB drive number that you wish to Boot/Flash.
  5. Now again in command prompt, type,select disk <X> where X  denotes the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then hit ENTER.
  6. Now we must first delete the Data already present on the USB drive so for that  -- Type cleanand hit ENTER. This may take some time to complete.
  7. After the USB is Formated we have to create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, so type,create part pri and hit ENTER.
  8. Now select the partition that you just created, type,select part 1 and then click ENTER.
  9. To format the partition, type,format fs=ntfs quick and then click ENTER.
  10. Type,active and then click ENTER.
  11. Type,exit and then click ENTER.
  12. After this step, you have already created the Bootable USB drive without the help of any external software. ow, all you need is just copy the Content and or ISO file to the USB and it is ready to be used as a bootable drive.
         So, what do you have to say wasn't that easy to Boot the drive. 
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