Bootable Usb Flash Drive Using-cmd

Bootable Usb Flash Drive Using-cmd

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Hi Everyone, in this blog, we are going to see about creating a Bootable USB Flash Drive Using CMD.

When you use a Bootable Flash drive it allows you to boot the computer from the files present on the flash drive rather than your inbuilt hard drive or SSD. Below I have listed out the uses and steps of creating a bootable USB Flash Drive using CMD.

WHAT IS THE USE OF CREATING A BOOTABLE USB FLASH DRIVE?

  • To use as a recovery system to repair your PC.
  • To store an image of the operating system.
  • To upgrade/downgrade to any operating system version.
  • To use a portal operating system on a foreign computer.
  • To boot after a PC emergency screen appears.
  • For the reinstallation of the operating system. Untitled design.png

REQUIREMENTS:

  1. A USB drive with at least 4GB of memory for 32-bit/8GB of memory for 64-bit.

  2. A computer/laptop.

  3. An operating system zip/image file.

HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE?

STEP 1: Insert the USB drive into your computer’s USB port.

STEP 2: Search for the “cmd”-[command prompt] application in the Windows start menu, then right-click and select “Run as administrator”.

STEP 3: Type the command “diskpart” and click enter. This starts the storage device manager.

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STEP 4: Enter the command “list disk” to display all available storage devices.

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You can identify your USB by its storage capacity, and it’s usually listed as “disk 1”. In the system partition, “disk 0” is usually your PC's main storage.

STEP 5: Based on the assumption that your USB has the labeled “disk 1”, enter the command “select disk 1” to select it (or the corresponding “disk 2”, etc.).

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STEP 6: Enter the command “clean” to delete all files from the USB.

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STEP 7: Enter the command “create partition primary” to create a main partition.

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STEP 8:Enter the command “select partition 1" to select the newly created main partition.

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STEP 9: Enter the command "active" to Activate the partition.

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STEP 10:Now enter the command “format fs=ntfs" to change the format of the Pendrive usually from fat32 to NTFS, it takes about 15-20mins based on your PC's performance, and to make it in time enter the command "format fs=ntfs quick"-this command changes the format within a minute.

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STEP 11: After completing that process enter the command "assign", which automatically assigns a letter to your USB drive.

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STEP 12: Enter the command "exit" to close the diskpart.

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AT LAST COPY THE OPERATING SYSTEM ZIP/IMAGE FILE TO THE USB FLASH DRIVE.

LIST OF COMMANDS USED:

1.diskpart

2.list disk

3.select disk 1

4.clean

5.create partition primary

6.select partition 1

7.active

8.format fs=ntfs / format fs=ntfs quick

9.assign

10.exit

That's it, folks. Thanks for reading if you have any doubts regarding the topic, please post them in the comments section so that I can help you out.

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