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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Tidbit: How to prepare a bootable pendrive using diskpart?

DISKPART your pendrive (note: Your pendrive must support booting)

Plug your pendrive


1. Press windows Key + R to open "RUN"


2. type cmd.exe and hit enter.


3. type "list disk"


from the list that will be given, note your desired pendrive disk number. Identify this by looking at the disk size. Dont make a mistake or you'll lose your whole harddisk data. It generally should be number 1 or higher.


4.type "Select disk [x]" where x=the number you noted earlier.


5. type "clean"


6. type "create partition primary"


7. type "select partition 1"


8. type "active"


9. type "format fs=fat32"


10. type "assign"


11. type "exit"

Now extract the files from [.iso] copy directly to the newly formatted pendrive in the root drive (i.e don't put inside any folder in the pendrive)

NOTE: try typing "format fs=ntfs" if the earlier one doesnt work. But be warned, changing to NTFS reduces write-cycles.
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