How to create a bootable flash drive with command prompt

How to create a bootable flash drive with command prompt

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First of all i will start by asking what bootable flash drive is. bootable flash drive is a flash drive which people create for installing of windows and it can be use for repairing of damage operating system (os). I remembered when my pc had an issue i guess it was invalid partition table, so i had to create a bootable flash drive to solve this. You may be that position that why i took my time to craft this post for anyone who wish to create a bootable flash drive. Haven’t said that i will go ahead and show you how to create a bootable flash drive 

Requirement for creating a bootable flash drive

In creating a bootable flash drive, there are some things you need to have in other for this to work, some of them are;
  • First of all you need a good working computer
  • A flash drive 4gb for 32bit and 8gb for 64bit operating system
  • iso file of the operating system you want to install like windows 10

  • Steps in creating bootable flash drive with command prompt

    Below are the simple steps you have to follow to create a bootable flash drive

  • insert your flash/sd card into your computer
  • open command prompt by pressing WIN+R then you type cmd and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
  • Type the following command
  • Diskpart
  • List Disk
  • Select Disk 1
  • Clean
  • Create Partition Primary
  • Select Partition 1
  • Active
  • Format fs=fat32 quick
  • Assign
  • EXIT
  • Once you are done your output should look like this
    Conclusion When you are done move to where you save you iso file, copy everything to your flash drive. 
    or you can insert the windows  installation disk and use the xcopy command which goes like this 
    whereby C: is your installation disk you've inserted, while D: is the usb stick

    Done.

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