Bootable Windows USB Without Software

How to create bootable USB of Windows using command prompt

How to create bootable USB for Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10 without any of software
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These day many people use USB flash drive for installation of windows on desktop or laptop instead for DVD or CD drive because its more faster and convenient method for installation of any operating system in your machine. It’s also got more attraction because you even put this USB Flash drive in your pocket and use it when and where you require. Many software’s available on internet to make your USB Flash drive bootable and copy installation windows file on it, there’s one provided by even Microsoft, but the all process of making bootable USB for windows can be possible without downloading of these software’s and internet. In this post I will explain all these steps with screen shorts with the help of these steps you can make easily a bootable USB Flash drive without any of software at you whom for the installation of any operating system like Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10.

 All you need is a Command Prompt which is a built in feature of all operating systems. Follow some simple instructions. Let’s we take a look at it:

Create Bootable USB without any software on Windows 7 (Using CMD)

To create a bootable USB with the help of CMD you first open CMD by typing CMD in the “Run” and format USB drive by using “diskpart” command. Select partition and copy all installation files on the USB Flash drive.

Here we explain you step by step this process.

Step 1: Attach USB Flash Drive
Plug in your USB flash drive into the USB port of your computer.

Step 2: Open Command Prompt
Open Start menu and type command “CMD” to find out Command prompt as you see command prompt right click on it and click run as administrator.
Or
Open start menu type “Run” press enter than in the “ Run” type “CMD” and press enter.
Or
you can also open the Command Prompt by pressing Windows +R > Type CMD > Press Enter.
It will open command prompt for you.

Step 3: Open diskpart utility
Once the Command Prompt window opened type “diskpart” and presses enter. Wait until it will open “diskpart” utility for you.

Step 4: Display all disk list by command list disk
Now in the new diskpart window, type command “list disk” and press enter. It will display all active disks on your computer to you.
Most probably, you will see two Disk types.
Usually Disk 0 is for the hard drive,
 And Disk 1 is for your USB Flash Drive with its total capacity.
Now because you have to work on USB Flash drive which is disk 1 so

Step 5: Disk selection
Type “select disk 1” command in the same window and press Enter. You will get a message ‘Disk 1 is now the selected disk’. That means, any further operation that you will effects on disk 1 which is actually your USB Flash drive.

Step 6: Clean Disk by command “Clean”
Type clean and press Enter to remove all of the data from your USB Flash drive. Clean command will format your drive as bootable drive. You will get a message like ‘Diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk’.

Step 7: Create partition Primary
To create partition primary Type command “create partition primary” and press Enter. You will receive message like Diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

Step 8: Partition Selection
Type “select partition 1” and press enter. It will select partition 1 for setting up it as an active partition for farther work.

Step 9: Set Active the selected partition
Type “active” and press enter. It will make activate the current partition.

Step 10: Format USB Flash Drive
Now, type format fs=ntfs quick and Press Enter. This command will format your current partition as NTFS file system quickly.Now to process in the diskpart utility completed so,
Type “exit” and Press Enter.
It will exit Diskpart program but it doesn’t close the CMD window. Now the USB Flash drive is ready to copy Operating System file on it.

All DOS command to make a bootable usb flash drive

How to copy system files on USB Flash drive from ISO image, Bootable DVD or CD manually:
Now all you need to do open the files inside the DVD or ISO, copy these files and paste inside USB storage manually. Before copying make changing to the folder option select show all hidden and system files option. If you are going to copy directly in windows. This will make your USB drive bootable in Windows 10 and all older versions.

Step 11: Copy File on the USB Flash Drive

copy command for CMD to copy all file to usb

Our recommended method is to do this all process though Command line. Means copying all these file form DVD to bootable USB using CMD. For this, Let us assume that the USB drive is the i: drive and the DVD drive have been assigned the letter K. And, you also have inserted a DVD or CD inside the DVD disk drive and now you want to copy all data to USB for creating a bootable USB drive.

Anyhow if command prompt is closed you may open it once again by typing CMD in the Run.
By default, When you open Command Prompt’s, It active directory is on C:\Windows\System32>
Open the command prompt. Once the command prompt is open, type “xcopy i:\*.* /s /e /f k:”and then press Enter. Wait until all the files copy from the DVD installer are to the USB flash drive. Please double check the drive letter of your USB and DVD before giving command of XCOPY Here, here “I” is our USB drive letter and “k: is the DVD drive that holds the Windows DVD.
So, that’s the all process by using of whom you can make a bootable USB drive without using any software at your home.and used it for installation of windows xp, windows 7, Windows 10.

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