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Creating a bootable USB stick

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Creating a bootable USB stick

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Foreword

For netbooks and other devices without a DVD drive, it may be necessary to create a bootable USB stick. This tutorial explains how to do this.

Warning

All data will be deleted from the USB stick during the process. Create a data backup!!!

Prepare USB stick with Diskpart

Opens a console window: Click on Start --> Run --> cmd --> Enter

Diskpart commands

Now enter the commands one after the other:

diskpart

The Diskpart tool is now executed. Lists all discs:

list disk

Now select the number of the USB stick (in this example 4). ATTENTION!!! Do not select the wrong disc, otherwise there is a risk of a data disaster!!!

select disk 4

The following commands now set the process in motion (explanation can be found below).

clean
create partition primary
select partion=1
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit

Explanation:

  • clean --> deletes all data from the USB stick
  • create partition primary --> creates a primary partition
  • select partion=1 --> select created partition
  • active --> mark partition as active
  • format fs=ntfs quick override --> format partition as NTFS, quick override
  • assign --> Associate with Windows Explorer
  • exit --> Exit Diskpart

Copy data to the medium

Now the data must be copied to the USB stick. Let's assume that the CD with the data is in drive G and the USB stick is drive H. You must start the copying process via the command line so that all the data is copied.

xcopy G:\*.* H:\*.* /S /E /F

Once the copy process is complete, the stick can be used as a boot medium.

en/windows/usb_boot.txt · Last modified: 2023/11/26 11:41
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