Creating a Bootable Pen Drive using Command Prompt

How to Make a Bootable Pen Drive using Command Prompt

Just follows this few Easy steps and Your Bootable Pen Drive is Ready to Use.

1. Things Required:
2. Pen Drive (more than 2 GB).
3. Windows 7 ISO Image
4. Laptop or Computer.

Steps:-

• Insert a 4GB Pen Drive into your Computer, note the drive letter of your Pen Drive we will required it later in the process.
  
  
•  Click on Start Button on Desktop and Type cmd in the Search Bar.
  
  
• Right Click on command Prompt & select Run as an Administrator.
  
  
• Type diskpart and Press Enter to go in diskpart mode, where we can create, delete, format any Drives/ Partitions connected to the Computer.
  
  
• Next step is to type listdisk and press Enter, to see how many drive are connected to the computer.
  
  
• Search for our Pen drive. Mostly Computer will shows pen drive as disk 1 or disk 2. See the size of all disk and determine which one is our system drive and which one is our Pen Drive.
  
  
• If our Pen Drive is at Disk 2 then we will type select disk 2 and press Enter.
  
  
•  Now type clean to delete the partition of our Pen Drive.
  Note: - By deleting the Partition all data in the Pen Drive will be lost. Backup all your data from Pen Drive to other drives.
  
  
• After deleting the Partition we have to create new Partition for our Pen Drive, so type create partition primary and press Enter.
  
  
•  We have created a primary partition for our Pen Drive, now type select partition and press Enter to select the created partition for further operations.
  
  
• We have to make our Pen Drive Partition to work properly, for that we will make our Pen Drive Partition active. Type active and press Enter.
  
  
•  Now we will format our Partition with ntfs file system, type format fs=ntfs quick and press Enter.
  
  
•  Type quite to leave from disk part mode but do not quit Command Prompt, minimize it for a second.
  
  
•  Mount Windows 7 ISO image file.
  
  
•  Assume that my Windows 7 ISO image Drive is G and my Pen Drive is F:
  Note the Drive letters, as it is very important while performing further steps.
  
  
• Maximize Command Prompt, type  G:  and Press Enter to enter in G drive which is our Windows 7 ISO Drive.
  
  
• Now type cd boot and press Enter to further go in boot folder of G drive.
  
  
• Type bootsect/nt60 F: and Press Enter, to copy to boot code files from G drive into F drive.
  the above command should look like :
      G:\boot>bootsect/nt60 F:
  
  
•  After the process is complete exit the Command Prompt.
  
  
• Open My Computer and Copy all Setup files of Windows 7 ISO image Drives.
  
  
•  Paste all the content in F drive.
  
  
• After Copying of File is complete close My Computer and restart your Computer to check whether the Pen Drive is working as a Bootable Device.
  
  
• As soon as you see the HP Logo on screen, press F9 Key thrice to go in One Time Boot Menu Option.
  
  
• Navigate and Select Pen Drive and Press Enter.
  
  
• In the Next step Windows 7 Setup will start. This means that we had successfully created a USB Bootable Pen Drive of Windows 7 from an ISO image.
  
  
• If the above process doesn’t work start the process again from Steps 3.