A bootable Pen drive is mainly required to install Operating System from a downloaded ISO file. Creating a bootable Pen drive using Windows is very easy. There is no requirement for other third-party software. You required to know a few CMD commands to make your bootable Pen drive. These are the simple steps for making your bootable Pen drive with CMD.
- Open CMD as administrator: Type CMD in the search bar, right-click and select run as administrator. Click yes. Now CMD will open. Type the following commands in order.
- diskpart: Diskpart is a command-line disk partition utility available with Windows. This command opens the Diskpart utility in your CMD. Now the address changed to DISKPART.
- list disk: It lists all the disks available on your PC, including the Pen drive.
- select disk <Number> : It will select the disk. Change the number according to your Pen drive. In my case, it is 2. So I used select Disk 2.
- clean: This command will clear all the configuration information and all the information on your disk.
- create primary partition: This will create a new partition in your Pen drive.
- select partition 1: This command used to select the newly created partition.
- active: This mark the selected partition as active.
- format fs=ntfs quick: This will format the disk in NTFS.
- assign: This will assign a mount point to the selected partition.
- exit: Exit from the diskpart utility.
- Copy the content of the ISO files to your Pen drive