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How does USB Boot

work?
USB Boot works in the same
way as a floppy disk did in the past

USB
to start a computer. It's usually
used to rebuild an operating
system from the ground up, or to

BOOTABLE
repair, recover, or install it. You'll
need to build a bootable USB drive
first in order to do a USB boot.

USING This can be done on your own


PC or with the help of third-party
software. Afterwards, the software

DISKPART/ will copy all of the operating system


files and install them on the USB
drive/pen drive, allowing for USB

CMD booting. You'll need a USB drive/pen

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drive with at least 8 GB of storage to
make a bootable USB.
Steps to Create a Bootable
USB Using CMD b. Open Task Manager, go to File-
>Run new task, search for cmd
Step 1: Run command-prompt and pressenter.
in
Administrator mode. There
are
two ways todo the same:
a.Search for cmd in Start menu, right-
click on
the command prompt, click on
Run as
Administrator.

Step 2: Connect the USB


device to
the computer that is to
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be
made bootable.
Step 3: Type the command Step 5: Select the disk that is
‘diskpart’ and then your pen
press Enter. drive.
Generally, it is marked as
Disk 1, it might
vary system to
system. Make sure
not to select
any other available disk as it
will get
Step 4: Type the command ‘list formatted. To choose the disk,
disk’ to type the
display a list of all the command ‘select disk1’
available and press Enter.
storage devices on your
system.
Press Enter to continue.
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Step 6: To make a pendrive Step 7: Type the command
bootable, ‘create
there is a need to format it to partition primary’ and
clean press
the existing data. This can Enter. This will make the disk
be done by the primary
use of ‘clean’ and ready to be made
command. bootable..
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Step 9: Before making the disk
Step 8: To choose the partition bootable,
created as primary, type the command there is a need to format it as
‘select partition 1’ and press Enter. NTFS
because Windows uses
NTFS file
system for storage. This
can be done with the
use of
command ‘format=fs ntfs
quick’
and press Enter.
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Step 10: Type the command Step 11: Type the command
‘active’ and ‘exit’ to exit
press Enter. This will mark the DISKPART and press Enter.
primary
bootable partition as
Active.

Now close the command


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prompt window.

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Step 12: Copy all the data
from the
OS(Windows/Linux/etc.)
installation
Now, this diskPendrive
to your USB
candrive
be
that is
justused
been to install
made the desired
bootable.
Operating System on any
computer.
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THANK YOU

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