Create A Bootable USB Flash on Windows 7

Okay lets get to it.

here are some of the things that you will need, to accomplish this task.

1. 4 GB+ Flash disk.

2. Computer with windows 7 installed on.

3. Windows 7 DVD.

3. Bios that supports boot form USB.

First thing you need to is, start the command prompt as an administrator.

And then type DiskPart, DiskPart is a text-mode command interpreter in Windows Vista, Windows® XP, and the Windows Server 2003® family. This tool enables you to manage objects (disks, partitions, or volumes) by using scripts or direct input at a command prompt, and hit enter.

Then we list all the drives, using the "list disk" command, on the PC, and select the disk, using the "select disk # "command, after that we clean by typing "clean" and hit enter.

After doing clean, the disk's file system and partitions will be lost, so now we need to format using a certain file system, like in our case i would go for fat32, but before that we need to create a primary partition, using the command "create partition primary" then format the disk by specifying the file system type, "format fs=fat32 quick" here i used "fs"as file system and "quick" to make the formatting process more quicker, you can also use other commands like "label", to label the drive...

That is all, we have successfully created a bootable fash drive without using any other software. The next step will be to open your windows 7 DVD, select all the files, copy and then paste on the USB drive that we just created, boot form USB and install a fresh copy of windows 7.

Conclusion

This is by far the easiest way to create a bootable flash drive using windows utility called DiskPart.

What other method do you use? share and enjoy.

I hope this has been informative, thanks.