How to create a bootable USB drive

In the past, we install the operating system with the help of CD/DVD but Windows 7 and most of the BIOS support the USB boot so we can just download the OS in a memory stick and install.

1. Create a bootable USB drive by Diskpart.

1. Insert the flash drive

2. Open a command prompt with Admin

3.Type Diskpart

4. In the disk part command line you need to type "List disk" this will show the list of the disk and make sure the flash drive is connected.

5. Now you need to type Select disk  1 Make sure you have selected the flash drive

6. Type Clean this command will delete everything from the flash drive

7. Create the primary partition primary so Create partition primary and enter

8. Now select the partition Select partition 1

9. Format the partition format fs= NTFS quick and enter

10. Type Active

11. Type exit

Now we need to extract the ISO file and copy the whole files into the root directory of the flash drive.

2. How to create a bootable USB flash drive via Rufus.

Rufus is a small utility that helps us to create the flash drive bootable such as a pen drive, memory card, etc. It very fast and easy as compare to other bootable programs.

• We can create USB installation media from bootable ISOs files
• we can use on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
• We can flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
• If you want to run a low-level utility than use it

Download the Rufus from the official website and launch. Rufus autodetects the flash drive we just have to give the path of the flash drive and click on start Rufus program gives you a warning about the data so we have to delete the data and continue the process it will take hardly 5 minutes to create the bootable flash drive.

3. Create a bootable flash drive-by power ISO.

    Power ISO also one of the best programs for creating the USB bootable  I saw in some cases the other program does not work so I personally use the Power ISO for bootable USB drives.power is a free powerful program that supports all CD/DVD image files, create extract mount files, support windows 7,8,10 in 32 and 64-bit environment. It is all in one program you can do everything with an ISO file or disc program.

We can download the Power ISO from poweriso.com and install it. 

open power iso and go to tools, under the tools select Create USB bootable. Now we need to choose the image path and destination path.

Now click on start you must get the warning screen just simply click on it. remember this is a clean installation so this program with the format the flash drive and start. Power ISO might take some time depends of the computer speed but it is best to program.

4. Create a USB bootable with Media creation tool

Windows media creation tool is one of the best programs for upgrading the computer to Windows 10 and creating the Windows 10 USB bootable. You can download the latest media creation tool from the Microsoft website. it is a very easy and best tool.

Download media creation tool  from the link and run the application.

You can create a USB bootable and download the ISO file in a thumb drive. Now click on next and the media creation tool will start creating the USB bootable.