How to make your pen drive a bootable device....?  To do this you must run the command prompt as administrator. 1. Go to Start menu & type CMD on the search box, and then press ctrl+shift+return. then click "run as administrator". Then you will see the command prompt with "Administrator" label.  . 2. Type the command DISKPART. Then type LIST DISK.  3. Then you can see the devices that are currently in your computer. In my Computer, Disk 0 is the Hard Disk & Disk 1 is the USB Flash Drive. Now Select the device that you are going to install. Type SELECT DISK 1 to select the device. 4. Then type CLEAN. 5. Now type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY to create a partition on your pen drive. 6. Then type SELECT PARTITION 1 to select the partition that you created. 7. Type ACTIVE to set the selected partition as active partition.  8. Then type FORMAT FS=NTFS to format the partition using NTFS File System.  This may take several minutes to complete. 9. Once you get the message "Diskpart successfully formatted the volume" type ASSIGN & then type EXIT to exit the partition. But do not close the command prompt. 10. Insert your Windows Bootable CD/DVD into your Optical Disk Drive(DVD Drive) if you have not done so far. Now go to my Computer & recognize the Drive Letter of your CD Drive & USB Flash Drive. In my Computer, I have H: for Optical Disk Drive & J: for Pen Drive.  11. Now go back to command prompt and type H: CD BOOT . Please be carefull about the letter H:. Then type CD BOOT to go to BOOT directory on your CD.  12. Now type BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 J:. Actually here only you create the device bootable. If done correctly, you will see the following message.  13. Now close the command prompt & copy all the files to Pen Drive which are in Windows CD/DVD. That's it......! Now enjoy your bootable Pen Drive.....!!! -->> To boot from USB change your BIOS boot order sequence as USB is before the Hard Disk. The way of changing this may varie from Motherboard to Motherboard. | < Back . |
