Instructions: Create bootable Flash drive
1. Plug the USB drive in
2. Open a command prompt window with administrator privileges.
3. Type diskpart and press enter
4. Now type list disk and press enter
All the disks connected to the pc will be displayed. Make a note of the disk number of your flash drive you are about to make bootable.
5. In the command prompt window type select disk ### . (### is the number of the disk and in the above example it is 2, so it becomes select disk 2)
6. Type clean and press enter (make sure you got the correct disk in step 5 before doing this)
7. Type create partition primary and press enter
8. Type select partition 1 and press enter
9. Type active and press enter
10. To format the drive type format fs=fat32 and press enter (this will take some time)
11. Type assign and press enter. This will assign a drive letter to the usb, remember the letter as it will be needed later. In this example the assigned letter is L
12. Now type exit and press enter to exit diskpart.
Instructions: Adding Vista installation files and making it bootable
13. Insert your Vista DVD to the DVD ROM and remember it drive letterl. Mine is I
14. Open a command prompt (or if you didn’t close the one opened earlier use that) and type I:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 L: (Replace I: with your Vista installation disk drive letter and L: with the drive letter of your USB flash drive)
[Vista DVD ROM]:\BOOT\BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 [USB FLASH DRIVE]:
15. Close the command prompt window.
16. Go to your Vista installation disk select all files and copy them to the USB flash drive
Here’s a full image of the diskpart procedure:
17.For Bootimg: (Dvd Drive)H:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 (Pen drive) I: /mbr.
18. Then copy all windows 7 file from cd. Comment is :
XCOPY (DVD DRIVE) H:\*.* /S/E/F (PEN DRIVE) I:\
