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Making Flash Bootable

The document provides steps to create a bootable USB drive on Windows Vista or Windows 7 using the command prompt. It involves formatting the USB drive to NTFS, setting the boot sector to make it bootable, and copying Windows installation files from the DVD to the USB drive.

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Making Flash Bootable

The document provides steps to create a bootable USB drive on Windows Vista or Windows 7 using the command prompt. It involves formatting the USB drive to NTFS, setting the boot sector to make it bootable, and copying Windows installation files from the DVD to the USB drive.

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Method 6 - Don Wrote below, or see this link from Justin:

http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows
7 to create a bootable USB.

1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data
from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.

2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu


search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All
programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as
administrator.

3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

DISKPART and hit enter.

LIST DISK and hit enter.

Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your
USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter.
As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these
commands do.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN

EXIT

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at
the next step. Just minimize it.

5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter
of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive
letter and “G” as my USB drive letter.

6. Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

6.1. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot

6.2. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7
image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the
computer:
bootsect /nt60 g:

(Where “G” is your USB drive letter)

7. Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.

You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as
bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the
current motherboards support this feature).

Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a
bootable USB on XP computer.

Method 7 - Suggested by marc: Boot-USB-Stick

While trying to flash my bios I looked at your page. Most methods are
complicated, after a while of browsing the net I found above:

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