As computers are become smaller,CD and DVD drives are becoming obsolete.
Here are are a few steps in which you can make a bootable pendrive(USB).
Materials required :
- The installer CD/DVD of your Windows OS,
- Pendrive with a capacity greater than the size of your installer CD/DVD.
Perform the following steps:
- Go to start menu,search "cmd".
- Right click "cmd",Select Run as Administrator
A new Black window opens
- Write diskpart.You will see a new line,with the command diskpart.
- Write the following commands.
- list disk
you will see all the availible disks to you.Identify your pendrive by looking at the size of the disk.(In screenshot size of pendrive = 30GB(actual size 32GB) - select disk 1
number is the number in front of your disk.
(in screen shot pendrive is disk 1) - list disk
It shows that your pendrive has been selected as a disk( * sign in front of disk 1) . - clean
It removes all the existing partitions from the disk - create partition primary
creates a primary partition of the size of your pendrive. - select partition 1
select the partition 1 ( primary partition of your pendrive) - active
- format fs=ntfs quick
formats the pendrive - assign
assign the drive letter to the partition. - exit
exit the screen.
- list disk
- Again open cmd as administrator from the start search.
write the following commands- cd\
- G:
it is the drive letter assigned to CD/DVD of your Windows installer.(Can be seen from my computer) - cd boot
- bootsect.exe /nt60 i:
i: is the drive letter assigned to the pendrive you want to make bootable.
- Finally copy all the files from the CD to the pendrive as it is.
- Now restart your computer
- Go to the boot device menu at the time of startup by pressing appropriate function key(F12).
- You are good to go,your pendrive will happily serve as the new bootable device for your computer.
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