How to make USB Bootable in Windows XP and Windows 7

How to make USB Bootable in Windows XP and Windows 7 – Make your USB Pin Drive Bootable for Windows or other Software installation

As we all know it is Technology time and everyone wants to get his job done as early as possible. In this mission i have a great article about How to make USB Bootable in Windows XP and Windows 7 . Sometimes you are in hurry and not have enough time to go market and buy Windows CD and install it. In other case What you do if have to install window while traveling?

don”t suck. I am here i will tell you what you can do and how you can install window or other OS without CD, DVD. You all need to have a USB PIN DRIVE. I will teach you how to make bootable USB with snapshots. So, that you don’t need to worry in future for such issues. It is kinda easy :) . First verify that your USB has no any Write Protected and Shortcut virus issue. For solve write Protected issue from USB read how to format write protected USB – Format USB SD Cards. For removing Shortcut Folder from USB read How to remove usb shortcut error – usb error solution.

Procedure of How to make USB Bootable in Windows XP and Windows 7 :

1: Open Run Command Prompt.

2: Type CMD into RUN command Dialogue box as shown in figure bellow.

3: After Clicking on OK a a Command Prompt window will be appeared. Then type DiskPart into CMD window. This will open Disk Management Utilities on CMD. Type the command list disk to show a list of all the drives connected to your computer. Your USB drive should be listed here as well. Make note of the number next to your USB drive. For More details see the Picture bellow.

4: Now select the dist by typing Select Disk # command. replace the # with the number of desired disk. In My case it is 4. So i write select disk 4.

5: After this type clean in order to clean the disk. Once the USB drive is clean, type in create partition primary. You will see a message saying that the operation was successful.

6: Select the Partition 1. and type Active to active the partition. After this type format fs=ntfs quick. It will format it. you may also use format fs=fat32.

7: After entering it will take some time and Assign the USB a drive letter. Enter the command ASSIGN to give the thumb drive a letter designation. Type EXIT to end the disk management program. See image bellow for step 4 to 7.

That’s all Now you have a Bootable USB PIN Drive. Now copy the all windows files from any windows CD or DVD and paste into your USB. Now you can Install windows from USB :) . I hope you like this method. As i teach you with images so that is is very easy to make it possible.If you like my efforts then please share it to your social network for further Tricks subscribe us. you may also like to read how to increase Virtual Memory in windows 7, xp, Vista.