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Lo2 Prepare-Installer

A bootable device is any hardware that can load the files needed for a computer to start up. This document provides instructions for making a USB flash drive bootable using either the command prompt or Rufus. The command prompt method involves using the diskpart and format commands to prepare the flash drive before copying installation files. Rufus is a graphical program that automatically formats and copies files to make a USB drive bootable after selecting an ISO image file. Both methods require admin access and erase all data on the drive in the process of making it bootable.

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Lo2 Prepare-Installer

A bootable device is any hardware that can load the files needed for a computer to start up. This document provides instructions for making a USB flash drive bootable using either the command prompt or Rufus. The command prompt method involves using the diskpart and format commands to prepare the flash drive before copying installation files. Rufus is a graphical program that automatically formats and copies files to make a USB drive bootable after selecting an ISO image file. Both methods require admin access and erase all data on the drive in the process of making it bootable.

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Bootable Devices

A boot device is any piece of hardware that can read or contains the
files required for a computer to start. ... When installing a new operating
system, troubleshooting the computer, or booting from another drive,
such as the CD-ROM drive, a bootable disc or setup disc is inserted into
the drive.

Booting : is the process by which the computer loads the operating


system files from the secondary storage systems in your computer ( like
Floppy , hard disk ,or CD) to the primary memory area ( R/W -RAM )
and after the successful booting , the computer is ready to obey your
commands .
How to make Flash Drive
Bootable using Command
Prompt (cmd)
Step to make flash drive
bootable using command
prompt (cmd)

1. Insert your Flash Drive and go to


start, Search for CMD.
2. Right Click on it and Run as Administrator.
3. Once command prompt is open, type diskpart and hit
enter. It will enter into disk partition management mode.
4. Type list disk and hit enter, here you can see, all the disk into
your computer, it doesn’t show disk partitions but list of
connected disk to your computer.
5. After you get list of disk, recognize your flash drive by its size, here
mine is 14GB which is Disk 2, now let’s select flash drive by typing
select disk (disk no.) select disk 2 and hit enter.
6. Once Flash drive is selected type clean and hit enter,
this command will erase everything from your flash
drive.
7. Type create partition primary
8. Once it is primary partition we need to make it active
drive to do so type active and hit enter on your
keyboard.
9. Now you have to format your flash drive, type format fs=fat32
quick and hit enter, this command will format flash drive in
quick mode.
10. Once flash drive is formatted you may not see it in
My Computer to get it back you need to assign a
literal to it, type assign and hit enter.
All done you just made your flash drive bootable,
close this command prompt by typing exit and hit
enter.
Rufus system requirements

 Running Windows XP or later (preferably Windows


7+)
 Rufus application
 ISO (supported operating systems)
 8 GB USB flash drive (minimum recommended)
Create a bootable USB drive with Rufus

1.Rufus requires an account with admin access


in order to make the necessary changes to
hardware. After authenticating, insert the USB
flash drive and launch Rufus. It will detect the
drive almost immediately.
2. Click the optical drive button next to the Create a bootable disk
using checkbox, and you’ll be prompted to search for the ISO
image to use.
3 .When using ISO images, Rufus will
automatically modify the settings to
best match it. Once everything is set
correctly, click the Start button to
begin the process. You’ll be
prompted with a warning that all
data on the UFD will be destroyed.
Click OK to proceed with the
creation process.
4. Depending on the ISO image size, the
process may take several minutes to
complete.

The longest part of the entire process is the


file copy portion. This is typically the last step
and varies depending on file size/number of
files to copy.
5. When the process completed,
simply eject the UFD, insert into the
device you wish to install the OS
on, and boot as you normally
would.
Prepare USB Installer using Command Prompt

1. Insert the DVD Installer (windows 2008 server or Windows 8)


Go to Command prompt (CMD)

DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK ? (the usb letter)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK
ASSIGN
EXIT
2.Go to your installer DVD and find for the folder ( BOOT)

G:\>CD BOOT
G:BOOT\BOOTSECT /NT60 E:(the e: is your usb letter with
a:)

3.Then it will say successfully updated NTFS filesystem


boot code and so on. Complete now copy the files from
you install disk to the usb.

XCOPY G:\*.* E:\ /E /H /F (G: is your source drive E: is


your target drive)
Thank you!

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