Sometimes, installing Windows from DVD
media, becomes a nightmare, when you found that the media is corrupted, or DVD
drive, is not accessing the media properly. In another case, you need to
install Windows on a Notebook, or Laptop, which doesn’t have DVD drive. At that time, you think of having a Bootable
USB Flash Drive, which can easily saves you from all these hassles.
In this video, you will learn that, how
easily you can create a Bootable USB Flash Drive, using a few commands. Before
we begin, let’s take a look, what you need first.
A computer with Windows Operating
System, A USB Drive , a minimum of 4 Giga Bytes in Size, and Windows 8 DVD
installation disc, or Windows 8 ISO Image.
Let’s get started.
Plug-in your USB drive into USB port.
Insert your Windows 8 installation media, or mount an ISO image, if you have
one.
Now, you need to run Command Prompt,
with Administrative Privilege. To do this, click Start button, type CMD in
search box, right-click on Command Prompt, and then click Run As Administrator.
Once you are on command prompt, type DISKPART, and press Enter. Windows will
load the Diskpart application, and you can notice that prompt sign now has
changed to DISKPART>.
First we need to check, which drives
are currently connected and can be used with DISKPART. To do this, type, LIST DISK,
and press Enter key. Diskpart will show you all the available drives. Note
that, DISKPART will display all the connected drives, either they are Hard Disk
Drives, or Removable Devices. Be sure to perform the next step carefully,
because to create a bootable usb drive, you will perform format and clean
command on the selected disk. Make sure to choose the right disk.
As the list is showing 2 drives, our
usb flash drive is on number 2, which we can identify from the size of the
disk. So, our next command will used to select the disk, on which we will
perform some tasks, to make it bootable.
Type, SELECT DISK, space and then the
Disk Number, which is in our case is number 2, and then press Enter Key. A
message will appear, notifying you about which disk is being selected.
Now, we need to remove the previous
partition table from the disk. To do this, type CLEAN, and press ENTER key. If
any error occurs, then you can run the CLEAN command again. A message will
appear, indicating that the disk has been successfully cleaned up.
Now, we need to create a partition on
the disk. Type, CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY, and press Enter key. After the
successful creation of Primary Partition, select the partition by typing,
SELECT PARTITION1. As it is a new partition, you need to format it with a file
system, so you may able to use it. Type, FORMAT FS=NTFS Quick and press Enter
Key. You must use the Quick switch with the format command, else it may take
longer to format the disk. Once it is formatted, type ACTIVE, to make the
current Primary partition as Active Partition, and then type ASSIGN, and press
Enter key, to assign a drive letter to the new partition. Type EXIT, to quit
from DISKPART utility, but do not close the command prompt yet.
Open Windows Explorer, and note down
the drive letters of both media, like we now currently have, Drive G as DVD
media, and Drive L as USB Media.
Go back to the command prompt, and the
last step is to create Boot Sector file on the USB drive, which can be done
through BOOTSECT command, and that is available on your Windows 8 DVD media.
Now, you need to move to the BOOT directory, to run BOOTSECT command, which is
available on your Windows 8 DVD. To do this, type G:, which is the drive letter
of our DVD media, and press Enter Key. Here, type CD BOOT, and press Enter key.
Now, type BOOTSECT /NT60 L:, and press Enter key. Drive L is the letter that
windows has assigned to our USB drive. Type EXIT and press Enter key to close
the command prompt. Open your DVD drive, select all the files, and send them,
or copy them to your USB media. That is all. You are done creating a new
Bootable USB Flash Drive. What you need to do now is to, change the boot order
within from BIOS, to tell your PC to boot from USB Flash Drive first.
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