With the advent of "memory sticks", as well as the termination of the supply of cases equipped with 3.5-inch drives, which are now being replaced by "all-in-one" card readers, ordinary users were faced with questions: how to boot, how to make a bootable USB flash drive if the OS suddenly came out out of service?
Necessary
PC
Instructions
Step 1
We take a USB drive (you can use some other storage device, such as an SD card), the size is not less than 4GB. Next, connect to the USB port. We may have to sacrifice the information on it. You can dump the information to a local disk of your computer, or make a backup copy of the data to another medium. Information technology allows data to be copied to many types of media.
Step 2
We launch Windows XP / Windows Vista command line CMD. EXE. This command is produced as a computer administrator, that is, you need to have access to the computer.
Step 3
We launch the standard modern disk media management program diskpart. You need to wait for the DISKPART> prompt for a while.
Step 4
We carry out the command list disk. This command directly displays a list of all disks (not partitions) on your computer. Next, we are looking for our USB drive there. As you can see, we have this Disk 1.
Step 5
We carry out the command select disk #. If you are not aware, then # is the number of your USB-drive, which we got by executing the previous command). In our case, you need to use select disk 1. This command specifies diskpart, namely the factor that all forward operations will be performed on this disk.
Step 6
We make the clean command. This command deletes data as well as partitions on the drive you selected). We execute the create partition primary command, which allows you to create a new partition on the disk. Let's create a command select partition 1 - select a partition. This will be the required object for action. Next, the Active command - let's make the section we have selected active.
Step 7
Next, we issue the assign command, that is, we turn on the process of connecting the device, namely, receiving symbols for the created partitions (if the autostart option is enabled, a window appears as if you have just connected a USB drive.
Step 8
Exit - we exit from diskpart to the command line. This operation is very important in a personal computer.
Step 9
The USB drive is ready for further use.
Attention. Let's take the distribution we have, namely Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2, let's say on a DVD, installed in drive G:
Step 10
In the command line (not in diskpart !!!), execute the following commands:
1. First, prescribe G:
2. Next, write the command cd / boot - go to the boot directory of the distribution kit
3. And at the last stage, we execute the command bootsect / nt60 I: - where I: is the letter that we received with the newly prepared USB drive. This command replaces on disk 4. I: bootloader files with those required to boot Vista / Windows 7.
Step 11
The USB drive is ready. Copy all files from the standard Instal package to it. You can use both the standard Windows Explorer and the xcopy commands. We load the PC we need from the resulting USB drive, install Windows from it.
