COMMANDS FOR MAKING A FLASH DISK(PEN DRIVE) BOOTABLE USING THE COMMAND PROMPT

Are you having trouble installing operating system in your laptop,desktop.Incase your laptop is the mini one  that does not have the cd drive,I know you are having problem finding the cd drive so that you can install your windows.In this article I will show you how to make a flash disk bootable and use it to install windows.There are different type of installation.You don’t need a Operating system that has been burned in A CD  and a CD Drive to install windows. Other types of installation are the network type installation done over the network.

Okay,let get down to business now. Our goal is to make the flash disk bootable.

First thing you need to have a copy of the windows in the computers disk either Disk C or D.

Then you need also to have a flash that is at least 4 gb  and 8 gb if you are installing windows 8 to your computer. With those now you are good to go.

1.Tab the windows button and the  and type CMD on the field that appears and a black window will appear after searching.Right click on it and run the application as the administrator.This will open a black small window.

2.The second thing is to enter the disk parts inorder to be able to manage and see your installed flash disk.Use this command>DISKPART

3.The THIRD thing is to list all the disk that are available in computer using this command>LIST  DISK

4.Select the disk that is the flash by this commane>SELECT DISK 1

5.Clean the disk by this command>CLEAN

6.Do partition on the flash using this command>CREATE PRIMARY PARTITION

7.Select the partition after it has been made primary>SELECT THE PARTITION

8. Do the formatting of the ntfs

                               To format slowly enter this command >format fs=ntfs

                              Quick format enter the following>format fs=ntfs quick

9.The other thing is assingning the flash a letter.Hit this  command>>ASSIGN

10.The other thing now is to write the path of the operating system in the flash.

. Enter exit to leave the disk part

Then open the location of the windows in the computer e.g. let say that the windows is in Disk E in a folder called Win7

Here are the commands

    Enter E:

    Cd:win7

   Enter the windows folder   called Boot and enter the following command

Cd>win7>boot>bootsect.exe/nt60 : h NB h=represents the letter of your drive as it was renamed

Click exit

Copy all the files of the windows in the USB drive folder.

You are good to go now.Restart the computer and set the boot options so that the computer can boot from the flash.