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- Steps
- 1. Insert a usb drive at least 4gb in size
- 2. Open a command prompt as administrator
- Hit Windows Key, type cmd and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter. This will force it to open as admin.
- 3. Run diskpart
- This will open and run the Diskpart command line utility, which allows you to manage disks, partitions and volumes.
- C:\Windows\system32> diskpart
- 4. Run list disk
- This will list all disks on your system. You’ll see the something similar to this:
- DISKPART> list disk
- Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
- -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
- Disk 0 Online 238 GB 0 B
- Disk 1 Online 465 GB 0 B
- Disk 2 Online 29 GB 0 B
- 5. Select your flash drive by running select disk #
- Find the item that corresponds with your flash drive and select the disk. In the example above, my flash drive is disk 2 so I’ll run:
- DISKPART> select disk 2
- Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
- 6. Run clean
- WARNING: This deletes all data on your drive
- The clean command marks all data on the drive as deleted and therefore removes all partitions and volumes. Make sure you want to do this! If you are sure, run:
- DISKPART> clean
- 7. Create a partition
- DISKPART> create partition primary
- 8. Select the new partition
- Since we know there is only one partition, we can just run this:
- DISKPART> select partition 1
- Without checking the partition number. If you’re really curious, run list partition to check.
- 9. Format the partition
- To format it, we’ll use the NTFS file system and run a quick format:
- DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick
- 10. Set the current partition as Active
- Run:
- DISKPART> active
- 11. Exit diskpart
- Run exit. This will exit diskpart, but leave the command window open.
- 12. Mount your ISO
- Use Virtual CloneDrive or similar.
- 13. Navigate to the mounted image and install a bootsector
- My ISO is mounted as G:\, so I’ll navigate to G:\boot and run:
- C:Windowssystem32> G:
- G:\> cd boot
- G:\boot> bootsect.exe /nt60 E:
- Where E:\ in this case is my flash drive’s letter.
- 14. Copy the entire contents of the ISO to your flash drive
- You can either do this from Windows using Ctrl+C+Ctrl+V, or from the command line using xcopy.
- G:\> xcopy g:\*.* e:\ /E /H /F
- /E copies all subfolders, /H copies all hidden files and /F displays all source and destination file names as it’s copying.
- Once that’s done, go and install Windows!
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