{"id":163,"date":"2015-03-27T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gronlier.fr\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2020-03-30T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:43:44","slug":"create-bootable-win8win10-usb-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gronlier.fr\/blog\/2015\/03\/create-bootable-win8win10-usb-flash-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Bootable Windows USB flash drive under Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

I assume that you have basic understanding of: unzipping a file, mounting an ISO file, opening the Command prompt in Administrator mode and booting your PC from an USB flash drive.<\/p>\n

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  1. Either unpack or extract or mount your ISO file, let's say in %USERPROFILE%\\win_files<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Insert your USB drive.<\/li>\n
  3. Open CMD in Administrator mode and type diskpart<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \n
    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10041\r\n\r\nCopyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.\r\nOn computer: XXXXXXXXX\r\n\r\nDISKPART> list disk\r\n\r\n  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt\r\n  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---\r\n  Disk 0    Online          238 GB      0 B        * # my HDD drive\r\n  Disk 1    Online           14 GB      0 B          # my USB drive\r\n\r\nDISKPART> select disk 1\r\n\r\nDisk 1 is now the selected disk.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> clean\r\n\r\nDiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> create partition primary\r\n\r\nDiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> active\r\n\r\nDiskPart marked the current partition as active.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick label=\"win installer\"\r\n\r\n  100 percent completed\r\n\r\nDiskPart successfully formatted the volume.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> assign\r\n\r\nDiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.\r\n\r\nDISKPART> exit\r\n\r\nLeaving DiskPart...<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  5. A new Removable Disk should be showing up, named as 'win installer' with, let's say, letter E:\\<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Go into the boot\\<\/span>\u00a0 subfolder of where the installation files have been extracted at Step 1, in my case: cd %USERPROFILE%\\win_files\\boot<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. We want to make the USB flash bootable with E:<\/span>\u00a0 the USB drive letter from Step 5.\n
    C:\\Users\\ticapix\\win_files\\boot> bootsect.exe \/nt60 E:\r\nTarget volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.\r\n\r\nE: (\\\\?\\Volume{a91720d2-a87d-11e4-ab33-3c970e90bd43})\r\n\r\n    Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode.\r\n\r\nBootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  8. Copy the content of the folder from Step 1 onto the USB flash drive with xcopy\u00a0 xcopy %USERPROFILE%\\win_files\\*.* E:\\ \/E \/F \/H<\/span>The syntax is\u00a0xcopy <source> <destination><\/span>\u00a0 with the following options:\n
    \/E Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.\r\n\/F Displays full source and destination file names while copying.\r\n\/H Copies hidden and system files also.<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  9. Once the copy is done, safely unplug the USB drive and boot your PC from it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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