Making bootable USB of Windows 7/8 using CMD
Making Windows7
or Windows 8 installation from your USB device is really too economic and easy just need to make it bootable
by using Command prompt and ISO image of the Disk. Let see how to do that
It’s often very hectic to copy the entire DVD of windows 7 as
ISO and buying a new DVD and then write the DVD to make the copy of Windows 7
bootable disk. Especially when one of your DVD is about to get scratch and
again and again you are doing the same. Now a day everyone of us must having
the USB flash drive of generally 2,4,8,16 GB. So here you can learn how to boot
your computer from USB flash
drive of minimum 4 GB.
Don’t worry i am not going to give
you download link of any application that may or may not work with all type of
ISO, as i also faced such problem. You can make the windows 7 bootable from
just few commands in the command prompt only. All you need is the ISO or all
the files or copy of DVD of windows 7 and Administrator right in your system.
Make
bootable USB of Windows 7 by Command prompt (CMD)
I have assumed you have and DVD of windows 7 in your tray and
a 4 GB Pen drive in one of your USB port. Backup all your pen drive data
because it’s going to format :p
Insert your Pen drive and press the
start button.
Type cmd and right click on it and start this with administrator right.
Now on the command prompt, type the following commands
Diskpart
List disk
// List disk command will generate
the list of Disk connected to your computer like Hard disk and USB disk. This
will be like in figure.
After this
select disk 1 // in my case USB is as
disk 1
create partition primary
active
format fs=ntfs quick // Format
Filesystem=NTFS quick(don’t use Quick for deep format, just use format fs=ntfs)
assign
exit
After this your USB drive is ready
to boot any computer just another step requires.
After this, copy all the content of
DVD or Windows 7 ISO extract to USB drive.
Done?
Now open the command prompt again by
typing CMD in run (See more shortcuts)
Now type
Cd
o:/boot //o:
is the path of usb drive, change it as according
Now proceed as
Type
Bootsect \nt60 o:
And Hit the final Enter and you are
ready.
Making
bootable USB of Windows 8 using CMD
You can do all the same step there
in windows 7 for making a bootable Windows 8 USB.
Just use the all files of Windows 8.
Similarly in %usbroot%/Boot
And run the CMD as administrator and
similarly select the same directory as in windows 7
i.e. I:/boot/ and type same command
in CMD
Type bootsect /nt60
I: //I is your USB drive
And done
Just reboot your computer, enter in
BIOS setup and select boot device priority as
* USB
* DVD
* HDD
* Network (Other)
And Tap [F10] to save and Exit.
Again Reboot your system and see
setup has been started.
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