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Make Bootable USB Flash Drive

Steps:
1. Insert a usb drive
2. Open a command prompt as administrator
Hit Windows Key, type cmd and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter. This will force
it to open as admin.
3. Run diskpart
This will open and run the Diskpart command line utility, which
allows you to manage disks, partitions and volumes.
C:\Windows\system32> diskpart
4. Run list disk
This will list all disks on your system. You’ll see the something
similar to this:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 238 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 465 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 29 GB 0 B

5. Select your flash drive by running select disk #

Find the item that corresponds with your flash drive and select
the disk. In the example above, my flash drive is disk 2 so I’ll run:

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

6. Run clean
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WARNING: This deletes all data on your drive

The clean command marks all data on the drive as deleted and
therefore removes all partitions and volumes. Make sure you want
to do this! If you are sure, run:

DISKPART> clean

7. Create a partition

DISKPART> create partition primary

8. Select the new partition

Since we know there is only one partition, we can just run this:

DISKPART> select partition 1

Without checking the partition number. If you’re really curious,

run list partition to check.
9. Format the partition
To format it, we’ll use the NTFS file system and run a quick format:

DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick

10. Set the current partition as Active

Run:

DISKPART> active

11. Exit diskpart

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Run exit. This will exit diskpart, but leave the command window
open.
12. Mount your ISO
Use Virtual CloneDrive or similar.
13. Navigate to the mounted image and install a bootsector
My ISO is mounted as G:\, so I’ll navigate to G:\boot and run:

C:Windowssystem32> G:
G:\> cd boot
G:\boot> bootsect.exe /nt60 E:

Where E:\ in this case is my flash drive’s letter.

14. Copy the entire contents of the ISO to your flash drive
You can either do this from Windows using Ctrl+C+Ctrl+V, or
from the command line using xcopy.

G:\> xcopy g:\*.* e:\ /E /H /F

/E copies all subfolders,

/H copies all hidden files
/F displays all source and destination file names as it’s copying.

Once that’s done, go and install Windows!