How to Format your Computer through a USB Flash Drive
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Formating Computer through a USB Flash Drive
Do you know that the fastest and easiest means of window Installation is through USB flash drive? But why many people have to go through a lot of stress in looking for a bootable Operating System Disk or CD-ROM may be due to their ignorance, in fact Formatting computer using Bootable window CD is no longer admired any longer by most proficient Computer engineers, because apart from being time consuming technique it also reducing the life span of Computer CD-ROM itself, but I always wonder when I still see some people or even some engineer s sitting by their computer with their palm at their jaw only to see them watching the loading process of the computer as if they are watching movies but when interrogate with them I will later discover that they have not even heard about installing window with flash drive talk alone of utilizing the method and that is why I just want to share you the process again if you still fall among the people that are still using this old techniques, though I have been using this method since 1997 and it has been working fine for me most especially now that there are many computers with no inbuilt CD-ROM (for example: most Mini laptop) so instead of you looking for an external USB CD-ROM, you can just get a minimum of 4GB of Flash drive and make it bootable to load your operating system .
Requirements
USB flash drive (4GB)
Window Vista or window 7 installation files
Follow the below steps
(1) Plug-in your USB flash drive and move all its contents into other destinations to make it blank
(2) Open Command Prompt with Administrator Right. Use any of the below methods to open the command prompt with Admin Right
Type cmd in start menu search box and hit ctrl+ shift + enter
Or
Goto start menu- all programme - accessory, right click on command prompt and select run as administrator
(3) You Need to have understanding of USB drive inserted , Now type in the following Command in the Command Now type Diskpart & hit
Next type list command & Note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive.
(4) Next type all the below commands one by one, here assume that your desk drive number is “Disk 1” if you have disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one
Select Disk 1
Clean
Create partition primary
Select partition 1
Active
Format FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds)
Assign
Exit
But do not close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step, just minimize it
5 Next insert your window 7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive. <Check this from my Computer>
6 Maximize the minimize command prompt in the 4th step and type the following command
D:CD BOOT and hit enter where “D” is your DVD drive letter
CD BOOT and hit enter
7 Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT 60H:
Where ” H” is your USB drive letter.
8 Copy your window 7/ window vista installation into the USB drive
9 Your USB drive is ready to boot and install windo7/vista the only step remain is to go to boot order in the BIOS setup and change the first boot device to USB instead of the HDD or CD-ROM drive, I assume you have already known this step and I don’t have to be explicit on this.
** If you have any problem with this you can always contact me and I will attend to your question within 24hrs**
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Nice tutorial, it is really helpful upgrading to my windows 8 using usb flash drive
ReplyDeleteyou are welcome bro, I will do that
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