| As more people use USB sticks in their daily computer | | | | DISKPART and press Enter. |
| tasks it has been observed that it is easier to transfer | | | | LIST DISK and press Enter. |
| files and install programs form them since their reading | | | | Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show |
| speed is greater than that of a CD/DVD drive. This is | | | | the disk number of your USB drive. In the image |
| why some might find it more easy to have their | | | | shown below the USB drive disk number is Disk 1. |
| Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation kit on a USB | | | | |
| drive and to use that to install it instead of the DVD | | | | 4. In this step you need to enter all the below |
| disc. | | | | commands one by one and hit enter. As these |
| For this reason this Guide was created, especially | | | | commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess |
| since Windows Vista and Windows 7 will no longer | | | | what these commands do. |
| make bootable media by simply formatting it with the | | | | SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk |
| system option or using the former SYS command in | | | | number) and press Enter. |
| Command Prompt. | | | | CLEAN and press Enter. |
| Here are some details that you should know about | | | | CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY and press Enter. |
| before going through the process ofcreating a | | | | SELECT PARTITION 1 and press Enter. |
| bootable USB drive | | | | ACTIVE and press Enter. |
| The computer has to support booting from a USB | | | | FORMAT FS=NTFS and press Enter. |
| flash/pen/key drive. | | | | (Format process may take few minutes depending on |
| There may be anywhere from 1-3 items to change in | | | | the size of the disk) |
| the BIOS to make this possible assuming your BIOS | | | | ASSIGN and press Enter. |
| supports it. | | | | EXIT and press Enter. |
| Some BIOS's may refer to your flash drive as a USB | | | | Don't close the command prompt as we need to |
| floppy or USB zip. Of course there may be | | | | execute one more command at the next step. Just |
| exceptions. | | | | minimize it. |
| The USB flash drive must support booting from it in | | | | 5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and |
| general. | | | | note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB |
| The flash drive must contain the boot/system files. | | | | stick. Here I use "X" as my optical (DVD) drive letter |
| The flash drive must have bootsector area. This is | | | | and "E" as my USB drive letter. |
| done with special utilities. | | | | 6.Switch back to command prompt and execute the |
| The necessary steps top have your USB stick | | | | following commands: |
| Bootable are described before and users should note | | | | X: |
| to replace the drive letters seen in these commands | | | | CD BOOT and hit enter. Where "X" is your DVD drive |
| with those from their computer. | | | | letter. |
| 1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable sot the Windows | | | | CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message. |
| installation kit will fit on it) stick to the system and | | | | X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 E: and press Enter. |
| backup all the data from the USB as we are going to | | | | (Where "E" is your USB drive letter) |
| format the USB to make it as bootable. | | | | |
| 2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type | | | | 7. Copy the Windows DVD contents to USB. |
| in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + | | | | You are done with your bootable USB. You can now |
| Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start -> All programs | | | | use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any |
| ->Accessories -> right click on Command Prompt | | | | computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of |
| and select run as administrator. | | | | the current motherboards support this feature). |
| | | | Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you |
| 3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the | | | | are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer. |
| following command: | | | | |