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:\
