Make a Bootable Pendrive ! 4

Now-a-days everybody is using ISO files. CD’s have been replaced with Image files that can be carried around in your any storage device.
But what happens when, you have to Format a PC?

• You’ll go buy a CD/DVD.
• Download Nero Or Magic ISO or Power ISO etc.
• Install it.
• Burn the Image file into CD/DVD and then run.

Well, this is a long and lengthy process. In this post, we are going to see how to Make a bootable Pendrive without using any tools.
Note: A formatted Pen-drive should be used in this process.

We will use DISKPART, an option given by Microsoft to manage Disks on windows. It is an easy 5-6 steps process.

1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
   

   Run cmd as ‘Administrator’

    

2. Enter Diskpart in cmd.
   
   

   Enter ‘Diskpart’

    

3. Write list and hit enter.
   You’ll see a list of things, that DiskPart can list. We have to select Disks, so we will write :list disk
   This command is used to list various disks available on your machine.
   
   

   ‘List disk’

    

4. Note the disk number of your Pen-drive. You can recognize the disk number by looking at its size.
   Here my Pen-drive is of 128MB, so it is Disk 1. The next step is to select this disk. So we can do that by using
   Select Disk 1.
   Diskpart will then tell you, it has selected Disk 1.
   

   Select disk 1

    

5. Now Diskpart has selected disk 1. Any command you run from now will affect only Disk 1 i.e. my Pen-drive. So we will first clean this disk. The clean command is used to remove any volume or partition that is currently present in Pen-drive.So just write clean and hit enter.
   
   

   Clean

    

6. When the disk is cleaned, we will create a primary partition. So our next command would be :
   create partition primary.
   
   

   create partition primary

    

7. Now let’s check if DiskPart has created a partition. Write list partition and hit enter.
   
   

   list partition

    

8. We will now select this partition using the command select partition 1.
   
   

   select partition 1

    

9. Now format this partition, so we will write
   format fs=ntfs quick
   fs stands for filesystem,
   ntfs is the filesystem that we want our Pen-drive to use.
   quick is to perform a quick format.
   
   

   ‘format fs=ntfs quick’

    

10. Now we have to make sure, it is used while booting. So to do that, we need to mark it as an active partition, only then windows will boot from it. So we just write Active and hit enter.
    
    

    Active

     

11. To exit, just write exit and hit enter.
    
    

    Exit

     

12. The next step is, mount/extract the ISO and copy the files to Pen-drive.

Or if this is too tough, or you can download Microsoft tool.