{"id":1082,"date":"2013-01-09T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2013-01-09T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:38:40","slug":"how-to-create-bootable-windows-8-usb-stick-using-diskpart-read-more-httpwww-windowsvalley-cominstall-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-deviceixzz2hqrcj4vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"How to create bootable Windows 8 USB Stick using DISKPART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How to create bootable Windows 8 USB Stick using DISKPART<\/h1>\n<div>\u00a0<!--more--><\/div>\n<div>August 20, 2012\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"RKonit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/author\/rkonit\/\" rel=\"author\">RKonit<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/#disqus_thread\" data-disqus-identifier=\"229 http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/\">20 Comments and 0 Reactions<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gone are the days, when we used to burn CD and DVDs to install operating systems. Now all modern operating systems lets you install using PEN Drive \/ USB Storage Device \/ USB Stick. And this article describes step by step guide to format and create bootable Windows Vista \/ Windows 7 \/ Windows 8 USB Stick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Vista \/ Windows 7 \/ Windows 8 ISO or installation files<\/li>\n<li>A 4GB USB 2.0 Storage device (Its recommended to use USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 device for optimal performance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How To:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Plug your USB storage device. and run\u00a0<strong>Command Prompt\u00a0<\/strong>and execute the following commands one by one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Diskpart<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Run Disk partition utility<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>List disk<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>To get disk index that is used to perform disk partitioning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Select disk n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Selects disk n to perform disk partitioning.\u00a0<strong>n<\/strong>\u00a0is the number for your USB flash drive you obtained from above command.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clean<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Flush your existing all USB drive\u2019s partitions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Create partition primary<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Creates a partition as primary partition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Active<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Set the partition as active to hold bootmgr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Format FS=NTFS QUICK<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Perform a quick format on the USB Flash drive<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assign<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Assign a drive letter to the partition<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exit<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>To quit Diskpart utility<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Now copy all setup files to USB storage device\u2026 and that\u2019s All.<\/li>\n<li>Re-boot your PC with it, you\u00a0will be able to boot and install Windows Vista\/Windows 7\/Windows 8\u00a0using USB Stick.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note: If you face any trouble to boot with it or unable to boot, try this FIX.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I:\\Boot\\Bootsect.exe \/NT60 I:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Where I: is the drive letter of USB Stick<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/#ixzz2HQRh8FFH\">http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/#ixzz2HQRh8FFH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.windowsvalley.com\/install-windows-vista-and-windows-7-using-bootable-usb-storage-device\/ How to create bootable Windows 8 USB Stick using DISKPART \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}