In order to run diskpart, press Windows button+R and. First, connect the USB flash drive to your PC and then run Diskpart.
#HOW TO MAKE A USB DRIVE BOOTABLE WINDOWS 7 HOW TO#
So I want to show you, how to do it with Diskpart command line utility. There are many ways to create a Windows Bootable USB. Only one mandatory requirement is enough free space for placing unpacked distribution on your thumb drive. You need the iso file, the installation media image to be write to the USB flash drive. To install a Windows operating system you need a Windows DVD disc or a bootable USB flash drive. You will not have to format it, so it can contain some data, that will not be lost. USB flash drive with at least 4 GB of free space I prefer simple, lightweight and free archiver 7-zip, that you can download here. Set Device to your USB drive and click SELECT to select the Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 installation media. Insert a USB drive (8GB) into your PC and Launch Rufus. Alternatively you can use disk imaging tool, like “DAEMON Tools” to mount ISO and use it as usual physical drive. Refer to the Rufus interface and 4-step guide to create a bootable Windows USB drive: Step 1. Archiver or Imaging Tool(only for ISO, if you have DVD go to point three)įor completing the task, you will need copy all distribution content to USB drive, so if you have a Windows ISO file, you will also need Archiver, like 7z or your regular archiver. If you currently do not have any of them, don’t worry, it’s extremely simple to get Windows ISO from Microsoft website! Let me show, where you can download it.
Don’t forget to check that your computer has USB boot enabled in the BIOS config. Using Windows explorer or any other tool to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive.
To get started you need to have one of Windows distributions: Windows Installation dvd or Windows ISO file Step 3: Copy the installation DVD files to the USB drive.