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To create a bootable USB drive to install Windows, the document outlines 3 steps: 1) Using DISKPART commands to clean, create a primary partition, format it as NTFS on the USB drive. 2) Using bootsect commands in the installation DVD directory to create a boot sector on the USB. 3) Copying all installation files from the DVD to the USB using XCOPY commands to complete the bootable USB.

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To create a bootable USB drive to install Windows, the document outlines 3 steps: 1) Using DISKPART commands to clean, create a primary partition, format it as NTFS on the USB drive. 2) Using bootsect commands in the installation DVD directory to create a boot sector on the USB. 3) Copying all installation files from the DVD to the USB using XCOPY commands to complete the bootable USB.

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To create a bootable USB drive manually, we will use the Command

Prompt as a Windows default program. Here are step by step to


create a bootable USB drive as the Windows installation media. To
create a bootable USB drive as a Windows installation media, we
require at least 4 GB for minimum capacity. Larger capacity is better.
At this moment, I use the USB flash drive with 2 GB of capacity as just
an example. It's due to some reasons that my 4 GB flash drive
encountered an unusual problem that i have to fix later. :D
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Step 1: Using DISKPART Command

1. Insert your USB flash drive to your running computer. As the first
step, we need to run Command Prompt as administrator. To do this,
we need to find cmd by typing 'cmd' in the search box on Windows
Start Menu. After search result for 'cmd' appears, right click on it and
select "Run as administrator".
2. Type 'diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit
Enter. Wait for a while until the DISKPART program run.
3. Type 'list disk' to view active disks on your computer and hit
Enter. There would be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for
hard drive and Disk 1 for your USB flashdrive with its total capacity.
4. Type 'select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed
in the next step then hit Enter.
5. Type 'clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.
6. Type 'create partition primary' and hit Enter. Creating a primary
partition and further recognized by Windows as 'partition 1'.
7. Type 'select partition 1' an hit Enter. Choosing the 'partition 1'
for setting up it as an active partition.
8. Type 'active' and hit Enter. Activating current partition.
9. Type 'format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter. Formatting current
partition as NTFS file system quickly.
10. Type 'exit' and hit Enter. Leaving DISKPART program but don't
close the Command Prompt instead. We would still need it for next
process.
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Step 2: Creating Boot Sector
Let us assume that the flash / USB drive is the D: drive and the DVD
installer located on drive F :. The first step, we will navigate Command
Prompt to set installation DVD as its active directory.

1. By default, Command Prompt's active directory for Administrator


permission is on C:\Windows\System32>. We will navigate
Command Prompt to set on DVD (F:) as its active directory. Just type
'f:' then hit Enter, and the active directory changed to F:.
2. Type 'cd boot' and hit Enter. Active directory changed
to F:\boot>.
3. Type 'bootsect /nt60 d:' and hit Enter. Creating boot sector on
D: drive (USB flash drive).
4. Type 'exit' and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Until this
step we have made a bootable USB drive sucessfully, and the flash
drive is ready to be used as a boot media.
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Step 3: Copying Installation Files
To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy
the whole installation files contained on the DVD installer to flash
drive. To do this, open the Command Prompt as in previous steps.
Once it opens, type 'xcopy f: \ *. * d: \ / E / H / F' and then press
Enter. Wait until all the files in the DVD installer copied to the flash
drive. Now bootable USB drive is ready to be used for installing
Windows from flash drive and you're done !

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