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Tuesday 21 May 2013

How to Create Bootable USB

         The era of CD's & DVD's  has ended.Now a days every one is using the USB or Pendrives for the data transfer. USB's can also be used as a media for the installation of the Operating System,For this to be done the USB made as a bootable one.
     
       Follow these simple steps to make a Pen drive Bootable.

Step-1::

       Navigate to 'Start' --> 'Accessories' --> 'Command Prompt'
       Right Click on the Command Prompt & open it as 'Administrator'



Step-2::

      
Now in the command prompt is opend & its default location system32 is present.Now Type 'diskpart'  & press enter



Step -3::

       Now type 'list disk' .This lists the disks present in the System.Here Disk are ment to number of hard Disks ,In General is shows us the primary hard Disk & the USB which we have plugged in.



Step-4::

        Carefully select the disk which we are going to make as bootable. To select a disk use 'select disk disk_number' command.

Step-5::

        After the selection of the disk we must clean i.e we must erase the data. For this we must use the command 'clean'

Step-6::

      Now creation of the partitions must be performed by using the command 'create partition primary'

Step-7::


Select the first partition by 'select partition 1' command.

Step-8::

   Make the partition active by using the 'active' Command

Step-9::

   Since we are making a bootable usb our required file system format is fat32. so,  we must format the usb by using the file system 'fs'  as fat32. This can be done by using the command 'fs=fat32'.
Now the formatting of the usb is started & it takes a little time.



Step-10::





    After the format we use the Command 'assign' to assign a letter to this newly created Disk.

Step-11::

  Use the Command 'exit',

            Now a bootable USB is created,Copy the installation files of the Operating System in to the USB,That's it.....! completed. Now u can use this USB as an installation media for 
OS installation.

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