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The document provides steps to create a bootable USB drive using the CMD command prompt on Windows. It is a lengthy but traditional method that always works. The steps include opening CMD as administrator, using diskpart commands to select the USB drive, clean and format it, mark the partition active, and then copying installation files to make the USB drive bootable with Windows.

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Bootable

The document provides steps to create a bootable USB drive using the CMD command prompt on Windows. It is a lengthy but traditional method that always works. The steps include opening CMD as administrator, using diskpart commands to select the USB drive, clean and format it, mark the partition active, and then copying installation files to make the USB drive bootable with Windows.

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Steps to Create Bootable Pendrive using CMD

CMD is available on all of the windows computers, so you would not have to
worry about downloading any new package or software to make your pendrive
bootable. It is a bit lengthy process but it traditional method and always works:

1. Run cmd(Command Prompt) as Administrator. (This is an important step


because you are going to edit disks which require admin privileges)There are
several ways to open a command prompt with admin rights:i) Press Windows +
X and select Command Prompt(Admin).
ii) Open start menu, search cmd, right click and click run as administrator.
iii) Open task manager, click on file -> new task, tick Create this task with
administrator privileges, type cmd and hit enter.
2. Connect your pendrive to your computer.
3. Type disk part and press enter. (This will open the windows inbuilt disk part
utility which is used to manage the storage on your computer)
4. Type list disk and press enter. This will list all the storage device available on
your computer.

5. Choose your pendrive. For that type select disk 1 and press enter. (Here it is
disk 1. In your computer it may differ so choose wisely)
6. Type clean and press enter. This will erase all data from your pendrive.
7. Type create partition primary and press enter.
8. Type select partition 1 and press enter. This will choose the partition we just
created.
9. Type format=fs NTFS quick and press enter. This will perform a quick format
with the NTFS file system. (Windows use NTFS file system for storage)
10. Type active and press enter. This will mark your primary partition as
active.
11. Type exit and press enter to exit disk part and then close the command
prompt.

12. Now copy all the data from Windows installation disk to your pendrive.
13. Now your pendrive is bootable having desired windows installation.
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