How to Make USB Pendrive is Bootable in Command Prompt

Using a pendrive in a place of windows disc is a wonderful idea to choose and if you don’t have any USB Bootable Maker Software in your computer or maybe if you don’t want to use any of these software’s then there’s an another great way to create a bootable pendrive by just using your windows cmd comment prompt and also your windows setup files.

Tip: Before you start, plug in the USB drive and backup any files you have stored on the USB drive. The drive will be formatted during this process and all files on it will be deleted.

Making USB bootable by cmd command prompt doesn’t require any software to use but you’ll defiantly need your windows setup files in order to make those files bootable in your pendrive. So, make sure your computer is working on windows operating system to use this cmd prompt for boot conversion and you’ll also have to make sure about you having all windows setup files in your computer for file transformation on pendrive.

Creating a usb pendrive using command prompt is not hard, it is one of the most common ways to create a bootable usb.

Having a bootable USB is very essential, especially if you are a Netbook user. Using a bootable USB to install an operating system (OS) not only makes the installation faster, but also saves a DVD!

Creating or using a USB drive to install Windows operating systems is very easy if you follow the below mentioned steps.

Step-1 :

(i) Open Command Prompt Window (Windows 7 ) as Administator

Step-1 :

(i) Open Command Prompt Window (Windows 8 ) as Administator

Step-2 :

(i) Command Prompt Window as Administator

Step-3 :

(i) Type Command "diskpart"

Step-4 :

(i) Type Command "list disk"

Step-5 :

(i) After Type "list disk" you see Disk you type "select disk 1" as a Command

Step-6 :

(i) Now Disk 1 is the Selected Disk,

(ii) Affet type "clean" command in prompt window

Step-7 :

(i) Diskpart Succeeded in Cleaning the disk,

(ii) now type command "create partition primary" in prompt window

(iii) after type as a command "select partition 1" in prompt window

(iv) now Partition 1 is now the selected partition

(v) after, type command "format=fs ntfs quick" in command prompt

Step-8 :

(i) Diskpart successfully formatted the volume

(ii) now, type command "active" in command prompt

Step-9 :

(i) now, Diskpart marked the current partition as active

(ii) after, type command "exit" in command prompt , after you Leaving Diskpart

Now your USB Pen Drive is successfully Bootable

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 doesn’t not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer.

There are various ways to make a USB key bootable and Gizmo discussed a free utility for this purpose a few months ago. His discussion was focused on installing a Linux operating system. In this tip, I’ll discuss making a USB bootable for any purpose. This approach uses a built-in command-line utility that comes with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The command is “diskpart” and it can be used for a number of disk operations as well as for creating a bootable flash drive. It is actually a suite of commands in a separate shell that is described at this link. (The command is also present in Windows XP but can't be used on flash drives in that operating system.)