About:

How to make USB drive bootable to copy OS setup files on it and use it to install Windows on any machine.

Steps:

– Open CMD and type diskpart

– In diskpart console, type the following commands

o List disk

§ This is to know what is the number of your USB drive. In this example it is number 1. Notice that disk 0 is your main hard drive on your computer. Never touch it please.

o Select disk 1

§ This is to start working on the USB drive

o Clean

§ This is will wipe the USB drive. Note that it will erase everything on the drive.

o Create partition primary

§ This is to create a partition on the USB drive using it all available space

o Format quick fs=ntfs

§ This is to reformat the USB as ntfs to start using it.

o Active

§ This is very important. It is to make the drive bootable

o Assign

§ This is to give the USB drive a letter so that windows can recognize it.

§ You will notice that a windows explorer opens for you to copy any files on it.

– Now, double click on the ISO file to mount it in windows. In this example I will use win10 iso file.

– Select all files in the mounted drive and copy it to the USB drive.

– Boot the USB drive on any computer to install windows 10 on it again. Make sure that you have the key to enter it when asked.