Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Making of Windows 7 USB using no third party tools.

Hello guys.
Lots of ways to make a pen drive bootable.
Link to download the tool is here
But creating bootable pen drive using third party tools may contain virus.
So just follow this step & you will be able to make bootable drive on ur own without any 3rd party tool.

REQUIREMENTS:
1.    USB DRIVE (minimum of 4 GB)
2.    Windows 7 OS (working system)
3.    Windows 7 OS Media.

Steps:
1.    Format the USB drive with NTFS file system.
2.    Open the command prompt with admin privileges.
3.    Type diskpart and then press enter. Screen looks as below
4.    Now type list volume and it will show you the list of all the drives available on your computer.
 

5.    So here I have volume 6. (Drive J) as my pen drive.
6.    Now type select volume J (Please select your drive here and be careful in selecting the drive)
7.    You will get an asterisk sign before volume after the selection.
8.    It will appear as *Volume 6   J        NTFS Removable  14 GB  Healthy
9.    Now type format quick fs=ntfs
10.    Then type active.
11.    Then type exit and now copy all the data of the CD/media to your pen drive as it is.
12.    Now here comes the critical part.
13.    Now you have to make the pendrive bootmgr compatible to boot during the startup.
14.    To do so open command prompt and type bootsect /nt60 J:
15.    Please note that here I have J: as my pen drive letter.
16.    That’s it, Now select your pen drive as your first boot device and start the way you boot from ur disk.

1 comment:

  1. Cool thing dude..
    Didn't knew about the bootsect thing

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