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How To Make Windows 10 Bootable USB

Last Updated on October 13, 2020 by admin 479 Comments

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Having a bootable USB is very essential, especially if you want to finish installing Windows faster. Using a bootable USB to install an operating system (OS) not only makes the installation faster, but also saves a DVD!

Creating or using a USB drive to install Windows operating systems is very easy if you follow the steps mentioned below.

bootable usb drive

If you are planning to use a bootable USB to install Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 or Vista please refer our guides:

How to clean install Windows 10 from ISO

How to create bootable UEFI USB of Windows 10

Coming back to bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, or Windows 10 to create your bootable USB.

Prepare Windows 10/8/7 bootable USB drive

Step 1: Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.

Step 2: Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.

Step 3: When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

DISKPART and hit enter.

LIST DISK and hit enter.

Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

Step 4: In this step, you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self-explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

(Format process may take few seconds)

ASSIGN

EXIT

Bootable USB

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

Step 5: Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my USB drive letter.

Step 6: Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

D: CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

(Where “H” is your USB drive letter)

USB Bootable

Step 7: Copy Windows DVD contents or ISO file contents to the USB drive now.

You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature).

Note that this bootable USB guide doesn’t work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on Windows XP computer.

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Comments

  1. Steve Si says

    March 9, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    FAT32 filesystem bootcode is only supported on hardware with 512 byte
    sector sizes.

    This message means that the drive you have specified uses 4k sectors. The BIOS is not compatible with 4k sector drives and so you cannot write BIOS boot code to it.
    Most drives have a 512e emulation mode which emulate 512-byte sectors, but some early hard disks and proprietary USB hard disks only use native 4k sectors.
    https://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/4k_hdd

  2. Syungie says

    May 24, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    Hello, can you help me? There is an instruction to type ‘bootsect.exe/nt60 x: (drive letter) of the usb drive but instead i wrote letter of the other drive. How could i turn that back to normal? Thank you.

  3. Mux1c says

    April 22, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    if formatting is a bit slow then use “FORMAT FS=NTFS quick” It should speed it up :)

  4. Tessa says

    January 27, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    Thanks. it works

  5. Cammo says

    August 4, 2016 at 11:04 am

    This worked to make a USB Norton Ghost boot drive from a Win PE Ghost CD boot disk.

    Thanks you and come again.

  6. Raquel Scott says

    February 26, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    so far so good man.. My bootable flash drive is at about 33% of the way done with it’s formatting process. Then from the looks of it if everything else goes just like you said I just have one thing left to do and that’s to transfer the operating system from another source of media. However I’ve got my fingers crossed because I don’t actually have a windows CD. I have the operating system but It’s stored on another flashdrive. I think I get the concept of how you did it with the CD drive so theoretically it shouldn’t make any difference. I hope

  7. Emmanuel says

    January 28, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    This worked for me

  8. IZZAT says

    December 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    when i typed “FORMAT FS=NTFS” on cmd, the percentage did not rise at all

  9. Naresh says

    September 8, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    HelpFull and Nice explained…Thank you..

  10. Mohamed Khaizan says

    August 6, 2015 at 6:49 am

    Works Like a Charm on Windows 10 ……!! Cheers Thanks Mate..!!

  11. Borko Djurovic says

    July 30, 2015 at 2:40 am

    This also works for Windows 10

  12. Romas says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    Thanks, it really works. Just run CMD as administrator.

  13. arslan says

    April 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    thank u for nice sharing… after this i will be able to boot up USB not now be going to com shop for booting USB.

  14. Monica says

    April 16, 2015 at 6:17 am

    The steps are a bit complicated for me as a computer novice. I find the freeware ISO2Disc which allows me to create a bootable USB in an easier way.

  15. poonia says

    February 12, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    after step 6, do i go back to the same cmd prompt window i was using earlier? and when i type CD BOOT at step 6, it doesn’t bring me ‘BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60?. what’s wrong

  16. YHURI says

    January 15, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    youve done a good tutorial…i got it with a single process..guys just follow what has been post… youll not going to have any problem..just follow

  17. Jack says

    January 4, 2015 at 3:26 am

    This tutorial is not very good.
    I get the following message when trying to run bootsect.exe /nt60 G:

    FAT32 filesystem bootcode is only supported on hardware with 512 byte
    sector sizes.

    No bootcode was successfully updated.

    Apparantly a fat32 filesystem must be 512mb or less in order to have a 512 byte cluster size. this article specific no partition size when partitioning so the default value will be used, which is not 512.

    I have been stuck on this f*****ng issue for 4 hours now and cannot solve it.

  18. Eone says

    November 23, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    Any idea how to stop the format process without make usb corrupted because i want to edit the command to fs=ntfs quick and it really take a long time to format with this large usb size…

  19. DAVID says

    October 28, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    People,a lot of you that are experiencing problems is because you don’t write exactly what you have to write in CMD. All the marks like “:” , “/” should be respected and everything will workout. I only noticed one problem, “BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H” is the way the site advices us to write,but that space between EXE and / is was not good for my command so i put it without space and it worked.

  20. b25 says

    October 11, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    problem
    this tool can only be run on systems booted using a PC/AT BIOS. This system was booted using EFI or some other firmware type.

    what should i do?

  21. Xoka says

    September 26, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    For the people having troubles with ISO-files.

    You should be able to mount the file with DaemonTools to create a virtual disk and copy the files from there.

    h ttp://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon

    You can also open the ISO using Winrar if you only want to browse the files.

    Good luck!

  22. Majo says

    August 7, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    what if i dont have Windows on dvd and i want it on usb, do i have to burn it to dvd first then continue with these steps above?

  23. Ivy says

    July 25, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    after step 6, do i go back to the same cmd prompt window i was using earlier? and when i type CD BOOT at step 6, it doesn’t bring me ‘BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60’. what’s wrong?

  24. suhail says

    July 6, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    Dear frnds tell me how to copy dvd to usb ?

  25. Shayne says

    June 27, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    I tried this and installed windows 7. It worked. thank you very much. But how to install Windows XP in this way(DVD content to USB and install). There is no CD BOOT folder in my disc.
    p.s.-it’s a DVD which has microsoft office 2003 package and windows XP sp2.

  26. Delited2meetU says

    June 9, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    OMG Thank you so very much this posting and many of the comments enabled my skill set to accomplish install windows 7 ISO file via xp to windows 7 new hard drive. some how I did it wow thanks all and this post most of all!!!

  27. wahaj says

    June 1, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    my computer work not fast the model core 5 sony and 4gb ram

  28. yogi z best says

    May 9, 2014 at 1:48 am

    da right, here writh take format fs=ntfs few secons, i don’t believe my pc formating and take few hours ha ha ha ha xD

  29. Prince says

    April 25, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    I have iso of win 7 in of of the drive in my computer not in dvd. so what should I write insted of D:CD BOOT ??

  30. david says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:31 am

    Thank you, i’ve done it!
    One thing to mention, first i start cmd, on step 6 i got following problem:

    f:bootsect.exe /nt60 e: hit enter

    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied

    So, I started cmd as administrator and repeat step by step,
    and it worked :).

    If someone experience same problem, just start cmd as administrator and repeat steps once again :).

  31. H says

    March 21, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    using the assign command is questionable. without any drive letter the selected device 1 will be assigned to the next drive letter. consequences there after

  32. Saft-Arla says

    March 1, 2014 at 2:44 am

    A HUUUUUGE tip of speeding this procedure up by 5-15 times depending on the size of your flash memory, use the command “format fs=fat32 quick” instead of “format fs=fat32”. For me it took 14 seconds instead of 1 hour 32 minutes with a 32GB Freecom drive. And avoid using NTFS, this will deny permissions.

  33. mr shaikh says

    February 28, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    dear sir
    i completed step 6 then inserted cd to dvd drive
    please advice how i copy windows
    content to usb
    thanks

  34. didi says

    February 23, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    If you encounter the issue with “Access denied”, try using the line “format fs=fat32” instead. It worked for me.

  35. Carlton says

    February 18, 2014 at 10:07 am

    I followed the steps as directed. However, I am at a loss for running step 6.

    The ISO that I am attempting to add to the USB drive was created from an EXE file using ImageBurn. The result was two files (ISO and MDS) in a folder on my desktop. How do I direct the CMD to access those files? I see no “BOOT SECT” or “NT60”

    Thanks. Please explain in layman terms. I am trying my best being a non-IT person.

    Thanks

  36. Saad says

    February 16, 2014 at 12:27 am

    Kindly please guide what can i do to make my usb bootable for XP the above steps is same but the last from my point of view will be issue because in XP setup there is no boot folder and bootmgr so please resolve this issue

  37. himshikha says

    February 5, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    I gave following commands:

    C:\Windows\system32>J: cd boot (J is my DVD drive)

    J:\>cd boot

    J:\BOOT>bootsect.exe / nt60 K: (K is USB drive)

    I am getting below msg: (after hit enter)

    bootsect {/help:/nt60:/nt52} {SYS : ALL: :} [/force] [/mbr]

    Boot sector restoration tool

    Bootsect.exe updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions in order to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You

    can use this tool to restore the boot sector on your computer.

    Run “bootsect / help” for detailed usage instructions.

    J:\BOOT>

    Plz anyone can help………..???? Where I am doing mistakes..!! or any problem with my OS..

    Right now I am using Window 7 OS at my PC.
    And want to recover data of my laptop that has same OS.
    Waiting for reply..!!

  38. himshikha says

    February 5, 2014 at 5:23 pm

    “make sure it doesnt a read/write switch like floppies have”

    what does it (a read/write switch like floppies have) mean..??

  39. himshikha says

    February 5, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    e:bootsect.exe /nt60 f: hit enter

    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied

    e:\boot>

    I have same problem.

    I use a external DVD WRITER for run a windows 7 dvd

    plz reply soon…i need it badly..!!

  40. essa sheikh says

    February 3, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    access is denied? make sure it doesnt a read/write switch like floppies have

  41. admin says

    January 27, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    It should have been “D: CD Boot”. I have edited the post to reflect the same. Thanks.

  42. admin says

    January 27, 2014 at 11:59 am

    @ Thanks, Jolan. We will soon come up with a guide on installing Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 from the same USB.

  43. Jolan says

    January 23, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    You don’t need to have 1 usb for each os u want to make a bootable USB from,
    If u created 1 bootable usb, u can shrink the bootable partition.
    With the unallocated space u created u make a full new partition,
    and u overdo the steps above…
    Don’t forget to set the right partition on active to boot from…

    Hope this helps alot of people who are about to buy 5 USB’s to spare their money … :-)

  44. Dang says

    January 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    I am having with step 6. When I inserted windows cd, i type your instruction to type D:CD BOOT
    Now it says D:CD’ IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS AN INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL COMMAND, OPERABLE PROGRAM OR BATCH FILE.
    Help me please! I have no idea what to do.

  45. admin says

    January 14, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    @ M
    Good to know that it worked for you without any issues. The key is to run the Command Prompt as administrator.

  46. M says

    January 13, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    Awesome instructions and appreciated. Got my image ready for deployment via USB now and as a backup. Cheers!

  47. Lore says

    January 11, 2014 at 8:39 am

    you saved my life, my note had win 7 starter (original) and then when i was updating my win, my SO was corrupted and i couldn’t reinstall it again. With this guide i could install win 7 home premium :P (sorry for my bad english >.<)

  48. Jau says

    January 10, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    Nice writeup. Would have liked to have a mail-link button of some sort, as I am at another computer than my own. Fixed it by using a web-based mailer, but still ;-)

  49. umar says

    January 8, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Its done…..
    you must CMD Run as Administrator…

  50. umar says

    January 8, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    E:\BOOT>bootsect.exe/nt60 h:
    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied.

  51. okcn.aline says

    January 7, 2014 at 11:12 am

    For beta lovers, how did you get Windows 7 Beta 6.1.7000 for so long? And why is in Copyright 2006?

  52. bern says

    December 13, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    annyeong, what if i don’t have a dvd? but my os is already in the flash drive? what to do?

  53. BakerBoysDad says

    December 7, 2013 at 1:38 am

    Worked great! Thanks a bunch!

    (performed on a Windows 8.1 machine)

  54. Sebghatullah says

    December 5, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Thank you it worked successfully

  55. zohair ahmad says

    November 18, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    Thank you. Worked well. Note: that in BIOS it actually picks as a Hard Drive and not a removal drive

  56. walee hassan says

    November 11, 2013 at 7:16 pm

    Great work yr love u bro :D

  57. CharlieM says

    November 1, 2013 at 5:22 pm

    I got till the point of Windows CD drive. I haveno installation disk for windows. Bougtthecomputer ready to use. What can I do now? Help pls.

  58. V says

    October 27, 2013 at 12:01 am

    format fs=ntfs quick

    ..is quicker, obviously :)

  59. 031385 says

    October 25, 2013 at 1:00 am

    Run the Cmd as administrator. I had the same problem and it solved it.

  60. Jack says

    October 17, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    Worked great and the best I have seen for making a USB drive.

  61. MASABA says

    October 16, 2013 at 5:20 pm

    it cant select partition

  62. ismail says

    October 9, 2013 at 7:17 pm

    This article helped me a lot… many thanks to author..

  63. Sheikh says

    September 26, 2013 at 3:20 am

    Thank you. Worked well. Note: that in BIOS it actually picks as a Hard Drive and not a removal drive :)

  64. admin says

    September 17, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    @ Jim
    It must work on Windows 7. What error you’re getting?

  65. Jim says

    September 17, 2013 at 7:34 am

    I just figured out that you can’t complete this task on a computer running Win 7,,,: (

  66. li says

    September 9, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    Cant see USB disk after step one “LIST DISK” command… im using XP.

  67. Kartikeswar Senapati says

    September 4, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    F:\BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE NT60 G:
    After the above the following message came:
    bootsect <sys:ALL::>[/force] [/mbr]
    Boot Sector restoration tool
    Sootsect.exe updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions in order to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR.You canuse this too to restore the boot sector on your computer.
    Run “bootsect /help” for detailed usage instructions.

  68. HANS says

    August 13, 2013 at 5:07 am

    Successfully got a bootable IDE drive on Windows Server 2003 (XP).

    This is how to do it:

    Do all the steps until step 4 where you typed “ACTIVE”.
    Now format your drive in My Computer.
    Get back to cmd window and continue the steps.

    THIS INSTRUCTION WORKS FOR MAKING A BOOTABLE SPARE HARD DRIVE, not USB as they’re not recognized by the OS.

  69. [email protected] says

    August 8, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    Worked excellent. Thanks mate.

  70. SHAMUS says

    July 27, 2013 at 11:05 pm

    didnt work. sounded very convincing tho. very technical

  71. Yagel says

    July 19, 2013 at 12:26 am

    the bios don’t read the usb?

  72. Oberon says

    July 7, 2013 at 10:18 pm

    f*ck yeah,it works good.thanks mate a lot! :)

  73. Vincent says

    June 27, 2013 at 7:31 am

    step 6 i seem to be having a problem… my D: drive is called D…. so when I type in D: CD BOOT it says incorrect function… what do i do?

  74. Mark H says

    June 20, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    I would like to thank you for this tutorial, this showed me quickly how I can make a bootable usb, I prefer the longer part then the shorther like some abovementioned people referred to.
    Thanks again

  75. dave tree says

    June 1, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    thanks… you didn’t tell what to do if after D:\>cd boot a error message “system cannot find path specified”. everytime i follow instructions from different forums it NEVER works. i don’t know why i haven’t learned my lesson and ignore these “flights of fancy ‘fixes it’ from wannabe’s

  76. Dimitris says

    May 31, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    Does it work if instead of using a windows dvd , i use a linux dvd?

  77. george says

    May 14, 2013 at 2:01 am

    What if I have a 2 disc set for recovering windows 7. How do I copy these files over. Would I need two USB’s?

  78. Wtf says

    May 9, 2013 at 11:40 pm

    “This tool can only be run on systems booted using PC/AT BIOS. This system was booted using EFI or some other firmware type.

    Wtf? I have Win7 Pro on an Asus K53U.

  79. AiXer says

    May 9, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    “Format process may take a few seconds”
    Definitely not. With a 32 gig drive, it takes almost an hour…

  80. Mutahar Zahid says

    May 8, 2013 at 12:36 am

    since netbook users dnt have the optical drive thn how to do so???

  81. VEERA says

    May 6, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    hi, buddy thanks a lot. you are really great,,,

  82. Koppo says

    May 2, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Plug the usb drive out and again in. Solved the issue for me as it was H: with only ~70MB left. After replug it worked.

  83. oldfashioned says

    April 25, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    couldn’t finish.
    C:\users\oldfashioned>E: CD BOOT (E is my disk)
    can’t do:
    E:\>CD BOOT
    E:\>BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 D: (D is my USB)
    does anyone have an idea:

  84. Anonymous says

    April 20, 2013 at 9:50 am

    Access is denied? Make sure it doesnt have a read/write switch like floppies have

  85. mahadevan says

    April 18, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    e:bootsect.exe /nt60 f: hit enter

    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied

    e:\boot>
    im getting this type of error, what can i do to make a usb.

  86. mahadevan says

    April 18, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    i also get the same. how to rectfy that.

  87. dexter says

    April 17, 2013 at 8:27 am

    thankz man…goona see how this workz

  88. zedrix says

    April 12, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    Why is it that this don’t work on XP?

  89. pandey says

    April 10, 2013 at 11:36 am

    yes baby u can

  90. admin says

    April 9, 2013 at 9:17 am

    If you have forgotten your Windows password, check out this guide:
    intowindows.com/how-to-reset-windows-8-password-the-easy-way/

    Works on Windows 7 and Vista as well.

  91. banga says

    April 8, 2013 at 12:42 am

    how to open computer which has beeb locked with password

  92. banga says

    April 8, 2013 at 12:38 am

    how bootable usb can be changed to be un bootable
    for other storage purpose

  93. danutz says

    April 5, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    I:\>CD BOOT
    The system cannot find the path specified.
    help me please.
    I: is the dvd letter.

  94. rebliw says

    April 5, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    List disk didnt show my usb..

  95. Nathan says

    April 5, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    follow up, I ran CMD as admin and it worked like a charm. should have read other posts first. (didn’t see the previous comments link at the top.)

  96. Nathan says

    April 5, 2013 at 11:59 am

    I was following along on the guide and I formatted my USB 14 Gig, took an hour :-/ however when I got to the e:bootsect.exe /nt60 g: line it returns an error of

    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied

    e:\boot>

    any thoughts as to why this happened? thank you

  97. benj says

    March 31, 2013 at 8:00 am

    hi, i’m using win7, ang would like to make a bootable usb (XP version). can i still use the steps above? tnx

  98. ream says

    March 28, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    Thank you, rinus!

  99. ream says

    March 28, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    D:CD BOOT command does not work just like sparky five comment above says.

    In my case it says: “E:CD is not recognized as an internal or external command…”

  100. rinus says

    March 24, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    It only needs a space between the D: and CD BOOT, (D:(here)CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.)
    I know that, but for people who don’t know its confusing.

  101. Martin says

    March 21, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Thank you .

  102. mar says

    March 20, 2013 at 3:15 am

    …the files are on my desktop.. how do i point to it?

  103. Robbie says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:32 pm

    That is because with Acer you have to use their own oem version of windows that comes on their recovery partition, no out of shop or other branded windows disk will work unless you are doing a straight upgrade install from inside windows. You have to get their install from the recovery partition for it to work like this. (Probably could be worded better but I am quite tired after having to deal with the bs acer puts you through to do an install that doesn’t just wipe everything)

  104. sparky says

    March 13, 2013 at 4:43 am

    What are the other bits after (EXIT) as other websites say you are finished after exit for making bootable disk,ps rest dont work after that it sayS command not reconised internal or extenalas batch command.
    i have taken a repair disc off my window 7 working lapton 64 bit and put onto my acer aspire one note book running windows 7 dont know what bit 64 or 32 then save from cd to my hard drive then send to my usb which i think is bootable, but only got to EXIT BIT on your guide! i get my acer and get to boot from usb it starts but then says kennals are missing!!!!
    ps acer dont work as reformated it from acer guide just black screen saying windows 32 missing. do you think acer could be 32 bit and im trying to install 64 bit or you think that the repair disc i made from my working laptop installs a bot on cd so when save it to usb its giving wrong info to windows on acer? it has 3 items on cd should boot be removed from cd before sending to usb. comput chap wants 60 quid to fix but can get new windows 8 from shop for less but could i install this on usb the bootable one i made,and if so will it overwrite windows 7 currupt version on acer! cheers for any help

  105. Luke Macenany says

    March 11, 2013 at 5:32 am

    What if my BIOS does not give the option to boot from USB…can I somehow still do it… such as install that option into BIOS? I have Acer Travelmate 2300

  106. SUSHEEL says

    March 10, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    @qw : you dont need the cd drive to boot just downlod ultraiso or any other cdmounting software and mount the image to virtual drive and get theboot codes from that virtual drive problem solved :)

  107. vaibhav says

    March 10, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    I have creat a bootable usb and i was remamber to your steps,But i was read this massage and what can i do to creatbootable usb

  108. nasser sawesi says

    March 7, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    i tried all the steps to make usb bootable @ when comes to exection didnot work
    ps :all steps ok

  109. qw says

    March 7, 2013 at 12:28 pm

    i dont have a cd drive at all to get the boot code from

  110. Amrutesh says

    March 6, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    How to revert i to normal USB?
    help please

  111. Gaurab says

    March 5, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    i can’t create my usb bootable and i can’t open it too. i tried to format but can’t succeed. please help to format it

  112. thomas says

    March 5, 2013 at 6:50 am

    you don’t really need a cd, an iso file works just fine, just copy the files to extract the file to the usb and you’re done

  113. tila says

    March 3, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    How do i create a bootable usb. ?here things i want to do, my g73 jh asus has overheating in few minutes shutdown,help me find a solution’my gpu fan level start 60 ,how do i reduce the fan level? Thank you

  114. NAISYBEE says

    February 28, 2013 at 11:29 pm

    after I got through formatting and wrote assign then enter, another window popped up saying about “quick play” and the like. (the autoplay window that comes up when you put in media.)

    then i typed exit and enter and the whole window closed! yikes!

    so i went to the first window and typed the first command it told me.

    D:CD BOOT

    and it says “D:CD is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file”

    So now I have no idea what to do. Help?

  115. rayan says

    February 22, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    no device found after pressing install windows! why?

  116. OSXP says

    February 19, 2013 at 2:25 am

    @ Hendryk use “HDD Low Level Format Tool” (google it) and format your flash Disk,hopefully everything’s gonna be OK.

  117. roger_muppet says

    February 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    @Hendryk

    try executing the windows explorer with administrative rights – as explained for cmd in this tutorial.

  118. roger_muppet says

    February 12, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    this FAQ is simply the best ever. even if the tutorial itself doesn’t explain much in depth (it’s quite usable nonetheless), the comments answer like every single question that is even just possible in occuring!

    thanks all.

  119. Hendryk says

    February 8, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Hi all…
    I followed these instruction until when it was formatting, my electricity went down…when the electricity on again, i tried to resume again by starting from the first step…
    Somehow, when formatting the usb flashdiak, it wrote “Virtual Disk Service error:
    A cocurrent second call is made on an object before the first is completed.”
    After that i can even format my drive, even when i tried to use right click and format (“You don’t have sufficient rights to perfom this operation”)
    What should i do? :(

    Help me please?

  120. Jonathan says

    January 29, 2013 at 4:52 am

    your last step doesn’t seem to work as when you ask for the usb drive to become bootable using the command bootsect.exe/nt60
    the error pertains to EFI and the fact that your trick only works on PC/AT bootable bios..
    So, I was really disappointed to heard that..

  121. Homer J says

    January 9, 2013 at 10:41 am

    very easy instructions, worked like a charm, thanks

  122. SAMUEL says

    December 31, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    to follow my previous post, i launched the cmd as administrator and tried again with the last few steps in the chain
    starting with ‘d: cd boot’ to the end
    the following error came up
    “could not open the volume root directory: the pramater was incorrect.”
    “no bootcode was successfully updated”

    what can i do

  123. SAMUEL says

    December 31, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    when i enter the “bootsect.exe /nt60 F:” command
    i get the folowing
    “target volumes will be updated with bootmgr compatible bootcode.”
    “could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied.”

    what can i do?

  124. kunaal says

    December 30, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    not showing my pendrive 4gb in command prompt

  125. SeptimusRaven says

    December 30, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    If this works i didn’t bought a Athlon X4 740 with a super advanced MB that doesn’t have a IDE drive for my DvD writer, for nothing. Hope this works, becoz i forgot to buy also a drive with sata to install Win from cd, and right now, a stick is my last option. Again, hope it works, and thanks for the tutorial…

  126. Andreea says

    December 28, 2012 at 11:18 pm

    Hello!

    I don’t have a cd with Windows on it, but I have downloaded it on my PC. Can you tell me, please, what I have to modify?

  127. telitsa says

    December 23, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    :D thankes

  128. girish says

    December 22, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    A BIG THANK YOU!!!!

    Initially i had made my usb bootable for ubuntu , the size of my 8gb usb had reduced to 756mb , i tried formatting it the normal way but didn’t succeed!!
    Then i followed the first part of your instructions for formatting and now i have my 8gb of space back on usb
    thanks again

  129. Dan says

    December 19, 2012 at 8:43 am

    Followed the directions and it worked perfectly. Thanks guys!

  130. Dominic says

    December 8, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    THX!!!!

  131. coder says

    December 7, 2012 at 2:02 am

    yea!!it did worked for me..
    thnx..

  132. rok says

    December 5, 2012 at 6:19 am

    I the last commanc wrote like this, beacus dont work on this way , you published: D:CD BOOT
    CD BOOT
    BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

    my way: D: Boot
    CD Boot
    BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

  133. Scott says

    November 24, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    FYI: Screenshots of command window commands/results are not copyrightable.

  134. mark says

    November 23, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    what if win7 is in the flash not on a dvd how can i run the process from cmd

  135. mark says

    November 23, 2012 at 11:56 am

    whaat if win7 is in the flash not on disk how can i run the process fro cmd?

  136. Muruganandam says

    November 21, 2012 at 6:56 pm

    Hi Dude,
    It worked well, thanks for the workflow!!!

  137. frustrated mom says

    November 15, 2012 at 1:36 am

    Help! My daughter has a Sony Vaio personal computer. She tried to copy or download or I don’t know what, but now, when you turn on the computer, “Vaio” comes up then, in a DOS mode says “Windows is loading files”, then it takes me to Windows Boot Manager, and says, “Windows has encountered a problems communicating with a device connected to your computer” and so on. I can get into the BIOS, but that’s it. Tried to connect what she had connected but still doesn’t work. Do I need a boot disk, or is windows lost forever? I would appreciate any help!!

  138. Ken says

    November 10, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    Thank you very much. It really works

  139. RolanDecoy says

    October 28, 2012 at 6:27 am

    excuse me, correction: …in order for the BIOS to recognize…

  140. RolanDecoy says

    October 28, 2012 at 6:25 am

    The problem here is that some USB devices need to have the first byte set to 1 in order for Windows to recognize it as a (small) HD. Diskpart will not work unless that is done first and it amazes me how many so called IT specialists do not know this…

    Your guide explains how to format a USB device and mark it as a bootable device, but it does not actually make it bootable… please add that very critical step…

  141. asad says

    October 26, 2012 at 12:33 am

    nice post.i am really thank to u

  142. admin says

    October 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    @Saber
    Works for Windows 8 as well.

  143. Jose says

    October 24, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    @Steward if you’re running command prompt as administrator and don’t see the usb in the disk list, here’s a few things to check:

    open ‘my computer’ and see if the usb drive is listed there, it may not be reading at all

    right click on computer and select manage then go into disk management and check if you see it. if it’s not reading correctly you may just need to assign it as a drive in disk management

  144. Saber says

    October 24, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Is this work for the windows 8, too? Please tell explain it.

  145. Steward says

    October 22, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    Hi any one tell me please I can’t see my USB in “diskpart” list using “list disk” command and i can’t create my USB bootable please reply ……..

  146. Kiran says

    October 12, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    How to make multi bootable usb. with windows xp, vista and Windows 7 along with Hiren’s 9 or 15 version in one usb drive(16gb) or in usb external hard drive.

  147. amathyzt says

    October 8, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Thank you very much. Simple and clear instructions, worked like a charm. Now I can run programs on start through booting off my usb and that is exactly what I had needed. Appreciate you taking the time and effort to share this info!!Great Job

  148. bashar says

    October 3, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    how to make bootable pendrive for win xp
    please hilp me

  149. prescription drugs says

    October 2, 2012 at 3:51 am

    Hello there! This article couldn’t be written much better! Going through this article reminds me of my previous roommate! He constantly kept preaching about this. I’ll send this information to him.
    Pretty sure he will have a great read. I appreciate
    you for sharing!

  150. SHARMA says

    October 2, 2012 at 3:02 am

    TANKS FRIEND…..

  151. alex says

    October 1, 2012 at 8:11 am

    i type in E:CD BOOT

    it says E:CD is not recognized…

    i know E:/ is where the CD is, HELP!?

  152. Peejay says

    September 30, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks for this.
    serious it helps a lots
    :-)

  153. manil says

    September 25, 2012 at 9:26 am

    its so easy, thnx

  154. Bill Curtis says

    September 13, 2012 at 7:47 am

    I was reading through this thread wondering why anyone would say that this doesn’t work. Aside from the obvious ‘I ignored the step that said to launch command prompt as administrator’ which means don’t click on command prompt, but rather right-click on it and select run as administrator, I noticed that the spacing in some of the commands was not evident in the html. For those who know syntax,it is obvious. For those unfamiliar with syntax, you get comments like “BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an external or internal command, operable program or batch file.”

    “D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.” should just say:

    D:
    CD BOOT
    BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:

    XCOPY D:\*.* /S /E /F F:\ (Where D: is your DVD drive, and F: is your USB Drive) And hit Enter.

  155. Immad Nisar says

    September 9, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    yes, its work perfectly no doubt…. i also made the usb bootable for windows 7

  156. Junaid Anwar says

    September 8, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    It works perfect i made bootable windows 7 :)

  157. Shafiq says

    September 4, 2012 at 6:29 am

    It worked, but I want both XP and Win 7 to be boot from the same USB

  158. Q4Rspwn says

    August 28, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    to post #306: you have to type the letter for your dvd drive, for example D:, and run the following command:
    D:\boot\bootsect.exe
    and then bootsect.exe /nt60 G: (replace G: with the drive letter of your flash drive)
    Good luck!

  159. Q says

    August 28, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    “Formatting may take a few seconds.”
    It took 45 minutes with my Freecom 32gig 2.0 flash drive.

  160. joshua says

    August 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    Thanks. A quick and easy guide. Best on the web and first on google search for “create bootable usb”
    :D:D:D:D:D:DD:::D:DD:D

  161. Nelson says

    August 18, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Excellent process!

  162. IanD says

    August 8, 2012 at 9:46 pm

    This worked flawlessly. Thanks mate!

  163. Malcolm says

    July 31, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Many thanks, tried for two weeks to load windows on a HP pavilion dv6710ea laptop with a new hard drive, this way was the only way i could do it many thanks again.

  164. JEEVAN REDDY says

    July 30, 2012 at 11:35 am

    thank u, thank u very much

  165. Prime Minister Lungs says

    July 28, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Nice one…im sure da people in my country will find this useful :D

  166. khedup says

    July 27, 2012 at 11:39 pm

    thanks , I am in need it right now and you helped me to remind it

  167. Vandan Javiya says

    July 27, 2012 at 11:08 am

    Hi…Friends…!!!

    I am not able to do step no.6 for bootable pen drive for windows xp sp3..Plaese help me…

  168. Kuon Chiva says

    July 20, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    I want to ask you about How to set up window 7 by USB.

  169. Krista says

    July 18, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    THANK YOU! You saved me a lot of time.

  170. shihab says

    July 15, 2012 at 10:54 am

    Thanks for your support. It works fine…..

  171. praveen gehlot says

    July 11, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    how to make win-xp bootable usb drive with cmd using plz give me steps

  172. Mark says

    July 10, 2012 at 1:36 am

    DO NOT INSTALL WINTOFLASH!!!!!
    that piece of shit has more adware in it than you can shake a stick at..

    do yourself a favor, read a bit and make this work on your own

  173. Frazer says

    July 7, 2012 at 6:19 am

    Okay so the amount of comments on this is mad and I feel a little silly, but whenever I type in ‘BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 F:’ I get the following:

    BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 F:
    ‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an external or internal command, operable program or batch file.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, just trying to get my new system up and running, having some difficulties.

  174. Dennis says

    June 17, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Thank you poster!

    This has saved me 1 year ago, and just did again.

    May you have a lot of fun on this saturday night.

    Cheers,

    Dennis

  175. mocin says

    June 12, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    great , helped alot

  176. Apurva gupta says

    June 3, 2012 at 11:03 am

    i did it
    but my pendrive does not work on system startup even i make it 1st boot device
    it works after os start

  177. nevaeh says

    June 2, 2012 at 8:38 am

    soooo sweetttttt! tnx a lot!

  178. deep says

    May 26, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    how to use for xp command ? (eg: bootsect.exe/nt60)

  179. alias says

    May 25, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    hi
    the last command
    not work with me
    bootsect.exe/nt60 h:
    why????

  180. Avdhoot says

    May 25, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    Really thanks

  181. hansjulius says

    May 23, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    can you pls help me format my usb i do like what you did above but i cannot access my disk 1 only disk 0. when i format it or even going to the drive x: the message “the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. can you pls. help me…..pls….

  182. Nishant says

    May 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    thank for your reply sir but i have formatted it too and now when i am using it it is saying to format and when i format it it says unable to format.

    i am using windows 7 so in my computer the drives like c,d ,e in bottom details come but in this pen drive no detail is coming and i am unable to open
    plzz help me cause i have done it on my 8 gb pendrive and i want it back to normal

    plzz sir plzzz help me

  183. admin says

    May 22, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    @Nihsant
    If you have just entered diskpart command then you haven’t formatted your USB drive. So, simply type exit command and use your USB drive.

  184. Nishant says

    May 22, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    I have just followed till 1 step in which we have to do disk part i have completed that thing after that i exit it because i was not knowing that for doing we also need a cd so now what should i do to bring back to a data storage device please tell me

  185. vixonald says

    April 29, 2012 at 5:01 am

    It does work with windows XP Sunny

  186. Farook says

    April 29, 2012 at 1:13 am

    hELLO THANKS FOR YOUR PRECIOUS HELP… THANK YOU VERY MUCH… THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH…

  187. ARNAS says

    April 25, 2012 at 10:47 pm

    Everyting works!!!! i was strugeling for a half of day and thought is complete rubish… But:
    1. it does not work on XP!!!
    2. WERY IMPORTANT!!!!Run com.prompt only as administrator!!! if you just open com. prompt youll get mistakes as well.
    Good luck for all.
    Many thanks for help!!!

  188. ffff says

    April 23, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    I’m stuck… when I type “list disk” it shows only my hard drive partition, not the usb partition.

  189. Fan says

    April 13, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    Great tutorial, many tahnks!

  190. Ramya says

    April 10, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    my usb not listed in diskpart/list disk.
    it detect my hard drive. not shown my 8gb usb.
    Please give solution

  191. MIKE says

    April 9, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    wow…
    this really worked
    ive tried so many tutorials to make a bootable usb and they fail sohard thanks alot for the tutorial.

    ps sorry for the spelling errors XD

  192. mohan says

    April 5, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    It works great…just correct that last step require cmd to be opened as “Run as administrator”….otherwise it works prefectly. Thanks a ton.

  193. Trisdawg says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:03 am

    Just to clarify for anyone who might stumble on this guide from google. Other guides I have followed tell you to format the drive as FAT32. The problem with this is that file-system can only support files upto 4GB. If you have a large USB drive & plan on storing additional ISO files on there then it’s a must to format using the NTFS file-system.

  194. victor mony says

    April 3, 2012 at 11:24 pm

    I must admit that this really helped… Thanks alot

  195. tango says

    March 25, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    when i give the following command i get the following message: bootsect.exe /nt60 g:(where g is my pendrive letter)
    Target manager will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible code.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access is denied.

  196. Gunny J says

    March 14, 2012 at 3:04 am

    Many thanks! I followed your guide step by step and it worked great.

  197. valcriss says

    March 13, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    hello sir.
    my usb is detected and seen on my computer, but when i enter the list disk in the command prompt, there’s no other disk on the list only the hd where my os is installed, and i also run the cmd as admin but still it only shows the disk 0

  198. Tech says

    March 12, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    Format seems to be taking an absolute age sat here for around 20 minutes and only on 5 percent !

  199. Szili says

    March 7, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    Hy!
    The usb is in the computer when a Start the windows every time? Or when a finished the instalation the windows start without the usb? Sorry my bad english
    Thanks

  200. deepak says

    March 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    dear sir,
    please send me usbboot tabel command window-7
    and win-xp

  201. Windows 8 Release says

    February 26, 2012 at 2:13 am

    Thanks for sharing the steps. Steps are illustrated in very good manner.

  202. Daniel says

    February 21, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Thank you very much! You are a genious! Worked fine for me!

  203. den says

    February 15, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    these cmd Format fs=NTFS
    or format fs ntfs
    return nothing for me
    what to do?

  204. Quatalojh says

    February 8, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    I purchased a SanDisk 16GB USB Flash and am attemping to load WinXP to it and make it a bootable WinXP environment. I am using a Win7, and have opened a command prompt. After remembering a few old dos commands such as (c: D: W: cd\ cd cd.. format) and so on.. I used the command prompt to format my USB W: to NTFS, using, FORMAT W: /FS:NTFS , which took about 3 hrs on the USB drive, and then I used Win7 Manager to copy the XinXP CD to my USB, All seem to work up to this point, so I restarted the computer as to boot from XPCD install disk which worked and proceeded to to Fresh install WinXP to my USB preserbing the new NTFS that I had just created. Setup seemed to wok fine allowing Setup to copy and extrct the files it needed, and then the system rebooted to allow the USB to load and continue to finish XP setup, however, after restart, the computer successfully sees the USB drive and attempts to boot XP setup but fails and hangs in a bluescreen of death. I believe I am on the right track, but now am upset and confused. AM I perhaps missing Bootsect.exe or NTLDR and if so how do I get them to my USB? And to make things worst, if I remove the USB drive and try to reboot system without USB, win7 is now saying that it is corrupt and will not load. HELP?

  205. admin says

    February 7, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    @Antzman
    It seems you are attempting to execute the command on a non-elevated prompt. Launch the Command Prompt with admin rights and then try executing the command.

  206. Nirmal says

    February 7, 2012 at 10:52 am

    it says setup is unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition

  207. Nirmal says

    February 7, 2012 at 10:50 am

    never mind about my previous comment, figured it out, but ran into another problem, on booting and the installation page(collecting Information page really) where you select partitions, I deleted all and created one big partition and on clicking next it says the setup is unable to read/install on this partition or something like that…help fellas?

  208. Antzman says

    February 7, 2012 at 10:28 am

    i get this…H:\>BOOT>BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H:
    access is denied.

    Please HELP.

  209. Nirmal says

    February 7, 2012 at 10:25 am

    Can anyone get it to work in the following conditions, my OS on my desktop which Im using to create a bootable usb is a Win7 Ultimate 32bit, the disk I have with me is a 64bit version…HELP!!!! ASAP

  210. ankitdixit says

    January 30, 2012 at 7:26 pm

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.
    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.

  211. Sb Dewan says

    January 30, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    bootsect.exe/nt60 this step doesnot work for me

  212. fahad says

    January 30, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    May God bless you… One of the chronic problem of notebooks is solved by you… Thanks a lot dude!

  213. Armand says

    January 30, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    there is one nasty mistake in guide wich made me a lot trbl.

    D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

    correct is D: CD BOOT
    (space after D:)

  214. BPS says

    January 28, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Gr8 Tutorial,Thanks Man. i got succes by trring first time.

  215. Suman kumar singh says

    January 24, 2012 at 8:00 am

    I’ve tried your trick yet. But i’ll going to try.its sound good. Also tell me that is again pendrive previous way. and also tell me the step for again storing data in my pendrive. Plz send ur suggestion on my mail.

  216. Ahaan says

    January 21, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    Hey I was just looking around in Bios and found that if you continue in burn in mode in bios,YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR USB FROM ANY SIZE TO 8GB OR 16GB.It also works on Processor-means that you can even increase your processor from 2.80GHz to 12GHz.Hope will help anyone!!!

  217. sirchQuafi says

    January 19, 2012 at 9:33 am

    Worked perfectly! Nice author!

  218. TED says

    January 11, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    can not xcopy to fin can u help, my cd is E my USB is G thanks

  219. Alex says

    January 6, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    Many thanks for this tutorial. It works perfectly. I also tried it using a USB HDD with SBS2008/11. Again perfect results. Takes a bit of time to format the drive so the smaller the drive the better. Sorry about some of the comments. The IT industry seems to spawn ungrateful tossers. Keep up the good work.

  220. Abba says

    December 31, 2011 at 9:50 am

    I HAVE ISO IMAGE ON DESKTOP DO I EXRACT IT TO BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE OR JUST PLACE IT THERE?

  221. UK_Bob says

    December 30, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    How can I make this a bootable USB if I don’t have a WIN7 DVD? My OS was on the p.c but no DVD was supplied.

  222. Gabo says

    December 29, 2011 at 9:09 am

    This tutorial sucks, download Novicorp WinToFlash its all automated.
    Cheers!

  223. jemok says

    December 29, 2011 at 4:23 am

    thanks for the post it works great for me, i really appreciate it

  224. denson says

    December 28, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    @arefiqrc

    Better yet, get an .iso from the Windows version you like and mount it with a tool like Daemon-Tools or Gizmo

  225. Atta says

    December 19, 2011 at 1:03 am

    Hi.

    My laptop did not have a CD/DVD drive, so I was required to install Win 7 from a USB. I bought I new HD as well.

    I followed the steps in the tutorial above and I successfully managed to install Win 7 on my new Hard Drive.

    I thank you for this tutorial.

    Atta

  226. harshit kedia says

    December 18, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    thanks for giving such useful information about usb…

  227. ManuTheMan says

    December 17, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial ;)
    I used it to make a bootable drive for firmware for my SSDs.

  228. cracker5901 says

    December 17, 2011 at 3:21 am

    It is more reliable for typical users not to use this guide, it is much simpler with right clicks.also faster, as the format process from the command line is very slow.

  229. piey says

    December 10, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    i’m trying xp bootsect.exe /nt52 to usb… when booting it’s say ntldr missing…. i have ntldr in /i386,,,, guide me how

  230. tdavis635 says

    December 7, 2011 at 5:35 am

    Thank you very much! I followed your instructions and it worked like a charm!

  231. PRABAL says

    December 2, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    Hi there,

    I have Toshiba XP satellite. Vista capability.
    The DVD/CD rom is not working. So I wanted to try WinToFlash to install from USB. However, on the DOS, there is not option for USB booting. I could see only CD, LAN, HDD, FFD.

    Please help.
    Desperately need to install XP.

    Thanks.

  232. ajay says

    December 1, 2011 at 3:08 am

    mount any image file(window 7,vista only) to powerIso or on other software and plug your usb drive then follow these steps…..

    start>run>cmd

    in the cmd window…..

    go to path of the mounted image drive(means source of the file)
    LIKE-> k:

    enter in the mounted drive and type…..

    boot\bootsect /nt60 [destination or usb drive name with colon]

    it will show the message that your drive is selected as boot mgr and access denied kind of error, ignore these things…..

    Now, copy all the files of the mounted drive(window file) to the usb drive. your usb is ready to install window.

  233. nihar ranjan jena says

    November 30, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    In windows xp operating system i’ve tried this open CMD then write diskpart-list disk but …i’ve got only the message
    DISKPART> list disk
    Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn gpt
    ——— ——- ——- —— —- —-
    Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B

    the CMD can’t find my USB flash drive ..
    please help

    Disk 1 in list disk command

  234. nihar ranjan jena says

    November 30, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    In windows xp operating system by using list disk command in diskpart its only show disk 0 whis is mu H.D.D but not show pendrine Disk 1 but its show in windows 7 Disk 1 in list disk command

  235. Vlad Alexandru says

    November 29, 2011 at 12:30 am

    It works great !
    Thanks!

  236. Shaik Khasim Saida says

    November 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    Hello sir. I have TOSHIBA Satellite A135-S4527, Home Vista laptop. But I am instal Windows xp2 with booting usb stik. Please help me. how it make.

  237. Ayoub Gdah says

    November 20, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    Thanks for saving my life.
    There is one typo
    E:CD BOOT should be E: CD BOOT

  238. ALOK says

    November 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    i would to know that if i forget my laptop password. then how i open my p.c. again. i am currently using window-7 .

  239. Shambhu Shikaree says

    November 10, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    I was able t create bootable USB as per given TUT. How can we format this USB back to normal once finished work with it. I tried formating but has not worked. Please let know if any one knows…

  240. segni says

    November 4, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    how can i break the password of my mobile by using computer
    and please show me the way to do so

  241. gushan says

    October 26, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    please guide me that how to make usb bootable disk with the help of windows 7 copy file.It is urgent

  242. naval says

    October 15, 2011 at 10:57 am

    i lick this camand

  243. SmaRkieS says

    October 5, 2011 at 1:51 am

    for those having problem with this guide, you can use the WinToFlash program, which is more dumb friendly UI.

  244. The Dude says

    October 3, 2011 at 2:35 am

    Thanks worked absolutely spot on. I used yours and sobaixu updates and well pleased. Thanks again.

  245. PANCHAL says

    September 29, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    hi gys
    i found that the in intalling windows xp thas not showing yout pendrive in list disk but u type “list volmume” then y show your pendrive & after u select that but u cant active it !!!

    how can i create a bootable pendrive without any third party software ?
    HELP !! HELP !!HELP !!

  246. Amit says

    September 27, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    Thanks for the information, i like step provided by you. i appreciate this, but why not XP?

  247. SUEZ CANAL says

    September 26, 2011 at 12:11 am

    thanks for your useful info
    i have copy my xp cd to my flash and it work

  248. RonaldEron says

    September 23, 2011 at 11:24 am

    what about windows 8 beta? I had this software and i want to install it on my netbook… and i want to use my usb to install it. Is this tutorial can also work to windows 8?

  249. Rob Dil says

    September 15, 2011 at 3:15 am

    Thank you! Just used my 32 GB Thumb to install the 4.83 GB Windows 8 Preview with Developer Tools.

  250. wziadi says

    September 12, 2011 at 9:32 am

    thanks a lot it WORKS ^_^

  251. Bilal says

    September 12, 2011 at 12:07 am

    Guys For all those who are facing “Access Denied” problem; they must Run CMD as an “Administrator” by right clicking and then clicking it as and “administrator” your problem will be solved after following the Steps mentioned in the tutorial.
    Simple solution and awesome tutorial.
    Thank u

  252. Booyah says

    September 3, 2011 at 7:22 am

    Just as an FYI… when installing Windows 7 from a USB3 Port / Controller such as Renesas like on my XPS 15 L502X and using this method with Windows 7, the Windows installer boots fine but cannot find the USB Stick’s after it boots (complains it needs a driver before install).

    If using a USB2 Stick – get the USB3 drivers (get them from Dell XPS 15 L502X Drivers Site, extract them), put the “Files” folder on a CD or DVD, and select the “x64” or “x86” folder when searching for a driver to install. You need to uncheck “Hide Drivers Not Compatible with my machine” so that you can see the USB2 Host Controller (if using USB2 storage stick). Select USB2 Driver, and the install will continue (it will find the USB Stick again).

    Best of luck!

  253. yeelin says

    August 29, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    thank so………..

  254. Rene says

    August 28, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    how i can do same thing without cd/dvd from my computer OS ? i dont have at the moment my windows cd/dvd and need make bootable usb stick, need help. can i do it without cd/dvd from my laptop OS ?

  255. Sandesh says

    August 25, 2011 at 11:31 am

    Tq admin. I’m trying it rite nw. I’ll leave cment when i’m done.

  256. Nicolas says

    August 24, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Aweeeeesome tut ! It works perfectly fine here. Thank you sir !

  257. pfondevilla says

    August 15, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    what do i do if the windows recovery that i want to put in to the usb is in 2 disks? do i put in to the same usb?

  258. GAUTAM says

    August 12, 2011 at 10:20 am

    cn we make bootable usb for XP as win7 and vista?
    how?

  259. RAKESH says

    July 25, 2011 at 9:30 am

    pls anybody tell how to make a windows xp bootable usb?

  260. Imran says

    July 24, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    guys my DVD player is not working and i want to copy file from F drive to USB after make it a bootable… which command should i hit….

  261. Darky says

    July 18, 2011 at 4:53 am

    I did exactly as said, but i always get “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press enter” error whenever its plugged in. I have Ubuntu installed, it shouldn’t be causing any errors.

  262. BBB says

    July 16, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    CMD.exe doesn’t find my USB device, although Explorer sees it, there are no important files on in anymore, and i can easyly write and read to this device.
    What to do? I REALLY need a bootable USB device for my Acer netbook!

  263. Muhammad uzammil says

    July 16, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Dear All,

    Recently I tried the above mentioned method to make USB bootable and really it worked. Before this I tried different method but unable to do. I installed W7 on my desktop pc and in last Thanks for the useful info.

    Regards,

    Muhammad Muzammil

  264. sopha.pheng says

    July 1, 2011 at 9:01 am

    hi all I want to ask all of you 1 question who have strategy to make bootble usb with window xp3 who can make please help me and send mail to me thank

  265. admin says

    July 1, 2011 at 8:18 am

    This procedure only for Vista and Windows 7. Doesn’t work for XP.

  266. santu halder says

    June 30, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    sir,is this same procedure to make windows xp?pls sir reply me as early as possible.

  267. Jane says

    June 30, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    It works beautifully, thanks a lot! :)

  268. vin says

    June 29, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    its just great man.
    i liked ur tutorial please keep doin such efforts
    if u hav nay forum please let me know
    daily i hav new query regardin computer

    thanks a lot

  269. bhawani says

    June 25, 2011 at 9:22 am

    hey frndss there r trick to make bootable usb for 7 & vista
    run cmd as administrator then chanhe the path to boot folder for bootsect command
    type this
    bootsect /nt60 destination drive latter /force
    eg:= bootsect /nt60 k: /force

  270. naveen says

    June 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Hi, I did everything as per the process, and when i finished everything , my USB drive has converted into a read only!

    there is no switch, and I am using windows 7.

  271. Mohammed Khan says

    June 11, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    how to inesrt usb?

  272. Bo says

    June 10, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    @Vidura , to solve the “could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied” problem run cmd as administrator

  273. Shree says

    June 8, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    TO “sonu
    Posted April 12, 2011 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.
    PLZ GIVE ME SOLUTION IF ANYBODY HAVE ONE pls help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
    I had the same problem. I am running windows 7. RIght clik CMD and click “run as administrator” and rerun the bootsect commands.

  274. niloofar says

    June 5, 2011 at 1:25 am

    hey ,
    it did not work

  275. Ahmed Ali says

    June 4, 2011 at 11:24 pm

    in which interface is it easier to create abootable flash disk,using command line interface or using third party programs?
    Explain briefly.

  276. Anil Arya says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    Great it’s really working !!!

  277. vishal kumar says

    May 29, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    this is great to make bootable pan drive…. install win to flash from cnet download and then run the programme…. at last the result you want

  278. can says

    May 28, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much!!

  279. migs says

    May 28, 2011 at 9:54 am

    i have error in D:\CD BOOT “access denied” i’m creating bootable windows Xp pro SP3 please help!

  280. admin says

    May 24, 2011 at 8:13 am

    @S.A.M

    You can’t create a bootable USB by just copying the DVD files to USB.

  281. S.A.M. says

    May 24, 2011 at 8:03 am

    Won’t copying all the files from the windows dvd just make it a usb with windows 7 installation on it?

  282. Alecs says

    May 19, 2011 at 12:10 am

    It really works ! Installed Win XP, 7 with no problems. Thank a lot !
    Badly it won’t work if you are on Windows XP. Do you know any workaround ?

  283. Fardeen says

    May 18, 2011 at 4:21 am

    Bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows XP, Server 2003, and Server 2008 installers.
    Download WinToFlash & Carry on.

  284. amster says

    May 17, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    everythng just happens to work out

  285. Dygi says

    May 12, 2011 at 12:03 am

    Great tutorial. I’ve spent whole day to find this simple line, that creates correct MBR bootable block. Thanks a lot!

  286. blatz says

    May 10, 2011 at 5:26 am

    tnx…nice tutorial
    just do what’s in the instruction
    it worked perfectly for me

  287. Rohit says

    May 7, 2011 at 10:06 am

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 I:
    (I being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt
    TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.

    PLZ GIVE ME SOLUTION IF ANYBODY HAVE ONE

  288. mahdi says

    May 6, 2011 at 6:35 am

    i dont have lectur dvd il like install win xp i have win xp iso haw to insttal win xp iso for my pc

  289. alpaviram says

    May 4, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Thanx for cooporation,it being useful for me.
    Alpaviram

  290. Phil says

    May 4, 2011 at 3:39 am

    Thank you

  291. carol says

    April 26, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    Swordfish, you call Sunny a retard, but aren’t you are the retard who couldn’t make a bootable USB?

    so STFU

  292. ShyamMayan says

    April 21, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Ya its working thanks for ur post keep post like this

  293. RyanXTREME says

    April 21, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Dear zvezddy,
    I had that same thing happen to me. I had to use my FOOT to push it into the USB slot on my computer… CMD PROMT RECOGNIZES ANY USB FLSH DRIVE!

  294. RyanXTREME says

    April 21, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Even though my last comment said you did make a mistake, GREAT WEBSITE!

  295. RyanXTREME says

    April 21, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    Actually, it’s not FORMAT FS=NTFS, it’s Fomat FS NTFS

  296. pramodh says

    April 20, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    I ve tried this is not working…
    Directly copy the file,.
    Then it will work..

  297. MOHAMMAD ISTIKHAR says

    April 19, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    I want to know how can I boot cd.
    How can I install window in the PC.

  298. alphaz says

    April 17, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    thank you for this wonderful article, it worked perfectly.

  299. zvezddy says

    April 15, 2011 at 3:29 pm

    i’ve tried this open CMD then write diskpart-list disk but …i’ve got only the message
    DISKPART> list disk
    Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn gpt
    ——— ——- ——- —— —- —-
    Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B

    the CMD can’t find my USB flash drive .. :(
    please help

  300. Paul says

    April 12, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Does anyone know how to fix my problem with a HP notepad (windows XP), that has a corrupt config.sys.

    When powering up the system fails with a config.sys read error, as the notepad does not have a floppy drive, I assume the only thing I can do to correct the corrupt or missing file is to use the USB port, but not sure how to do this.

  301. sonu says

    April 12, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.
    PLZ GIVE ME SOLUTION IF ANYBODY HAVE ONE pls help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  302. Jay says

    April 7, 2011 at 10:07 am

    I m not able to find my usb drive in list disk.

  303. Chachki says

    April 7, 2011 at 10:03 am

    WinToFlash is actually a piece of shit program. I tried using it and it ran through the wizard and did absolutely nothing other than attempting to load ads the entire time. Garbage program.

  304. Max says

    April 3, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Great posts – sorted me out perfectly – thanks

  305. Usman says

    March 30, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    thank you dear it’ realey works very well

    i have one more question can i run ghost from my USB drive

    and can i install multi os from one usb..

    thank’s again

  306. Frosty says

    March 27, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    Quickest and easiest way I’ve found is to download/install UltraISO. Open the ISO(ISO being an image of the disc) and choose write to disc option. Choose you’re USB stick and you good to go. Nothing better then WIN7 install from USB.

  307. David Riley says

    March 23, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    The bootsect.exe is all down to opening com prompt in administrator

  308. JS says

    March 22, 2011 at 5:52 am

    i have win 7 i had done all commands step by step in last BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 G: after this command i received message

    ‘BOOTSECT.EXE’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable programe or batch file.

    Plz give me solution…….

  309. E says

    March 20, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    Thank you so much! I tried forever to find detailed instructions like these! Worked flawlessly for my little netbook. THANK YOU!

  310. Gurveen says

    March 15, 2011 at 10:32 am

    Hi All,

    it is working fine just you need to right click on CMD of start button and start DOS as Administrator.

    Rest follow steps initially mentioned in this thread nothing else is required.

  311. gaurav says

    March 13, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    my dvd drive is not working i have the windows 7 file in my harddisk and in my pen drive how to proceed after step 5.
    plzzz help.
    thanks

  312. Hash_master says

    March 13, 2011 at 1:49 am

    alright cool I got it started I used disk utility and erased. So there probably a program that does that for windows, shouldn’t DISKPART do that?? any ways problem solved

  313. Hash_master says

    March 13, 2011 at 1:33 am

    it was completing and the process got stopped now that error comes up

  314. Hash_master says

    March 13, 2011 at 1:25 am

    I can’t be the only 1 with this error

    ###so when I enter###
    FORMAT FS=NTFS

    ###I get this###
    Virtual Disk Service error:
    A concurrent second call is made on an object before the first is completed.

  315. Manish says

    March 9, 2011 at 7:40 am

    I want to know when i type cmd cd boot then why displaying system can not define the specified path. While everything is ok drive letter. I have use windows7 ultimate os to make bootable usb.plz send step by step cmd which i could make succeed usb.
    Regards
    manish
    pgdca from polytechnic

  316. Lotvik says

    March 3, 2011 at 3:41 am

    Thanks a lot! Very good guide and a very good result :)

  317. Kaja says

    March 2, 2011 at 3:26 am

    god i hate my self.
    i am a noob at this but since i have nobody to help me i have to try to figur it out my self.
    turns out i did this guide on my stock hdd instead of the usb. so now i lost 100+ gb files.
    Is there no way to get it back?

  318. robin says

    February 27, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    hello i have a little problem in my pc when im formatting my computer in the stage of copying files it appears retry in a particular files like .ndll format or something i used different installer or CD’s i also try genuine windows xp and bootable USB but still it cannot copy files…thank you

  319. Sandeep Akula says

    February 26, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Thanks for sharing the steps. Steps are illustrated in very good manner.

  320. vidhya shankar says

    February 20, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    awsome i lie this trick and it works for vista & 7 too thanks for this tips and trick…

  321. ziggy says

    February 17, 2011 at 9:27 am

    Can any one help me to creat a start up disc on cd or dvd…please note that i want it for windows xp

  322. kamran says

    February 16, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    during said process to make usb bootable
    diskpart >clean was not successfull, after this usb can’t be formated and showing 0 kb properties.
    help me to save my usb

  323. Bidyut Roy says

    February 16, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED.. this sentence shows every time i type in “CD BOOT”, my cd-drive is E: so i’ve done it correctly.. what am i gonna do?
    E:\>CD BOOT
    THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED.
    exactly like this.

  324. ASAD YAHYA says

    February 11, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    this is better way to tell peoples about usb anad i hope u understand the better way of doing this Ok for all the people that are following this tutorial, but still get an “access is denied” error…..MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT CLOSE OUT OF COMMAND PROMPT!!!!!! If you do then you lose your rights to write to that drive. You lose admin privileges. So when you hit “exit” and it says leaving diskpart, don’t close CMD. Then go onto the next step

  325. balbdr says

    February 11, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    how to make usb drive unattanent

  326. mohdnizam1971 says

    February 9, 2011 at 6:17 am

    i like to make usb live mode for windows like ubuntu or any os. is it real….help me plz..

  327. Nabs says

    February 5, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    How do I perform a bootable flash disk with multiple Operating system on it. Where I would have the chance to choose which Os I want to install a time?

  328. Leg3nd says

    January 31, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    Ok for all the people that are following this tutorial, but still get an “access is denied” error…..MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT CLOSE OUT OF COMMAND PROMPT!!!!!! If you do then you lose your rights to write to that drive. You lose admin privileges. So when you hit “exit” and it says leaving diskpart, don’t close CMD. Then go onto the next step.

    I don’t know how many times I tried this before I figured out that by me closing the command prompt screen I was losing my privileges to write to that disk (usb)

    Hope this helps.

  329. tochi says

    January 30, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    very good

  330. Arjun says

    January 27, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    First of all Thx for this tutorial….
    btw who got error on last step please follow this step..

    1. Insert your USB stick into USB port (MUST be 4GB or higher).

    (Note: Backup the data on your USB drive as we are going to format it.)

    2. Open the Command Prompt: (follow steps listed below to do this)

    Go to Start Menu >

    All programs >

    Accessories >

    Right click on ‘Command Prompt’

    Select ‘Run as Administrator’

    3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

    DISKPART (hit enter)

    LIST DISK (hit enter)

    (Note: Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk numbers of all drives connected to your PC)

    4. In this step, enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter:

    SELECT DISK 1 (Replace “DISK 1? with your USB drive’s disk number, For example: If your usb is 4GB,
    and Disk 2 shows 4000mb disk size, type SELECT DISK 2, as that is your usb drive)
    CLEAN

    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

    SELECT PARTITION 1

    ACTIVE

    FORMAT FS=FAT32 (Format process may take a few minutes, depending on the size of the USB drive)

    ASSIGN

    EXIT

    (Note: Don’t close the command prompt as we need it for the next step. Just minimize it)

    5. Insert your Windows DVD in the DVD drive.
    Note the drive letter of the DVD Drive and USB Drive.
    (Here I use “D” as my DVD drive letter and “F” as my USB drive letter)

    NOTE: Drive letters can be assigned or changed. In the start menu right click “Computer”,
    select “Manage”. A window will open. Select Disk Managment (Near the bottom of the list
    on the left side panel), Right click a drive to assign, change or remove the drive letter).

    6. Go back to command prompt window and execute the following commands:

    D: CD BOOT (Where D: is your DVD drive letter) And hit Enter.

    XCOPY D:\*.* /S/E/F F:\ (Where D: is your DVD drive, and F: is your USB Drive) And hit Enter.

    8. Wait for DVD contents to copy to USB.

    You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer
    that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature).

  331. barbituate says

    January 24, 2011 at 12:34 am

    Worked like a champ. Ran into a couple hurdles, but finally got it working on Windows 7. Had to start the command prompt in Administrator Mode. And after going through the “diskpart”, my USB drive letter had changed from G: to H:, so I was of course getting an error with bootsect.exe when using the wrong drive letter.

    All good now. Thanks for the post!

  332. gaurav says

    January 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    how to make pen drive normal its speed is very slow

  333. avinash says

    January 17, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    well, this is helpful for everybody. thanks

  334. renzcarl says

    January 17, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED.. this sentence shows every time i type in “CD BOOT”, my cd-drive is E: so i’ve done it correctly.. what am i gonna do?
    E:\>CD BOOT
    THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED.
    exactly like this..

  335. Alex says

    January 16, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    Hi , I’m Alejandro and I’m mexican. I don’t speak very well english but it was very easy to follow your instructions. I’m very grateful becouse this works perfectly . thanks alot.

    Sorry if I’m wrong in my writing
    thanks again

  336. Neven says

    January 14, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Perfect, Thank you!!

  337. manish says

    January 13, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    how to install windows xp on windows7 & my writer cant work.plze help me.

  338. amandeep says

    January 10, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    hey all frnds, we can also use some software than commands to make bootable..

  339. S3ndo says

    January 10, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    hey it says “THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE PATH SPECIFIED” I need help!!

  340. ghaitanya says

    January 10, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    sendn me solution, brcoz, i want format my lappy form pen drive.

  341. amandeep says

    January 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Naveen,,, i have same error like u,,, actually matter is that,, Xp has no boot folder,,, if u try boot command on window 7, it will work,,,, so, xp has different folder of boot files, i dont know proper name, but may 1386.

  342. amandeep says

    January 9, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    send me solution,, becoz, i want to try on to XP. plz

  343. amandeep says

    January 9, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    its not work on XP. dont waste time

  344. rukhsad says

    January 7, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    when i hit the list disk there is no display usb number
    then how can i format and partition and make bootble plz guide me

  345. shivram says

    January 7, 2011 at 10:17 am

    when i try to boot from the usb drive, windows 7 setup says unable to create/locate partition.

    PS- lenovo thinkpad U460 (netbook)

  346. jat says

    January 5, 2011 at 10:14 am

    the steps do work when followed but when booting from the usb, the default language is not english – it’s some funky character…,

    kalasha

  347. Dishank says

    January 5, 2011 at 12:48 am

    thanks:)

  348. SUMEET says

    December 30, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    thnks a tonn man..u saved my life…

  349. Rocket says

    December 29, 2010 at 3:16 am

    thustha, I had the same issue. I would show in XP, but not in Diskpart. I plugged it into my Windows 7 workstation and it then showed in Diskpart.

  350. thustha says

    December 28, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    my 8GB flash not display in dispart.. can anyone help me regarding this…

  351. naveen says

    December 25, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    please tell me how to make non bootable USB from bootable.
    i created bootable usb and formatted it but now at the time of booting up my laptop if i have inserted that usb then it shows bootMGR missing error.
    so how to resolve this problem.

  352. Dhananjay says

    December 25, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    How 2 make bootable usb drive from image file ??

  353. Navi says

    December 23, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Ionut type (cd boot) not (cd: boot) i hope u get it

  354. Ionut says

    December 23, 2010 at 1:57 am

    When i write in cmd “CD: BOOT” it says: “The system cannot find the patch specified”. Help please.I`m using Vista.

  355. Jugernaut says

    December 19, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    Thankyou so much you are great. you are above all. it worked like a piece of cake.

  356. MARK says

    December 19, 2010 at 12:06 am

    WinToFlash software is free and easy to use. I have created XP usb!

  357. Faizan Ahmed says

    December 17, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    There should be a whole process at a place that how to make a bootable USB.

  358. Martin says

    December 17, 2010 at 1:58 am

    Hello. Everything works fine until bootsect.exe /nt60 f:. It just gives me the message “not recognizable”.

    What can I do?

  359. azahar says

    December 16, 2010 at 11:54 am

    thanks man.
    it worked for me.

  360. Carl says

    December 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    *** You must have Vista or Win 7 on your computer for the above method to work ****

    *** It will NOT work if you are trying to do this from a computer with XP ***

    Because the “Diskpart” command in XP does NOT WORK with USB Flash Drives.

    Also, you can NOT put XP on a USB flash drive using this method (XP is NOT designed to install from a USB drive.)

  361. polo89 says

    December 2, 2010 at 5:08 am

    so try doing everything step but when i put in the comman cd boot system cannot find specified path. can any one please help me?

  362. polo89 says

    December 2, 2010 at 5:03 am

    so try doing everything step by step but when i put in the comman ( cd boot ) it says system cannot find path specified . can any one please help me ?

  363. l0stb3ta says

    December 2, 2010 at 1:05 am

    @Arpita:

    The CD command changes directory.

    First, are you sure that your DVD drive is D: ? Verify the drive letter by going into My Computer. The drive letters for all attached drives should be listed, alongside what they are. I.E., “DVD Drive D:”.

    As far as I know, the only thing that would cause a “Cannot find the file specified” error is if D: is not actually the directory for your DVD drive, or if the DVD isn’t in the drive. I think it may also happen if the DVD is unreadable, but I think that gives you another error.

    @karim:
    It might be *possible*, but this tutorial is specifically for Windows Vista and Windows 7. You might have to ask Google about that one…although, I’m not sure if any hardware that can only run Windows 2000 is able to boot from USB. I could be wrong, though.

  364. Abdulqadir says

    December 1, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    its not showing my usb in list disk…. :(
    wat to do…

  365. karim nassser says

    November 30, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    Hey guys, Can it be possible to boot win 2000?

  366. Arpita says

    November 17, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    WHEN I TYPE CD BOOT..IT SAYS CANNOT FIND THE FILE SPECIFIED.
    SO THE LAST SUCCESSFUL STEP I GOT THRU WAS “D: BOOT CD”
    BUT AFTER THIS..IT CANNOT IDENTIFY THE PATH.. CAN ANY1 HELP ME WID DIS..DAT WILL BE GR8 THANKS..

  367. Mustansar Ramzan says

    November 16, 2010 at 9:36 pm

    how to make kingston usb

  368. Arpita says

    November 15, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    my usb is 3.78 GB
    when I am typing the command CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY..IT SAYS Insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset.
    wot do i do?

  369. BRijesh says

    November 15, 2010 at 11:25 am

    can any body tell me, how to make win 7 dvd bootable ,manually. i hv data dvd which doesn’t boot.

  370. Azad says

    November 12, 2010 at 8:41 am

    Hi, I think you can’t use ‘assign’ command without selecting volume. What i did before assigning is hitting the following commands-
    LIST VOLUME
    SELECT VOLUME # (volume number of usb drive)
    ASSIGN

  371. Maddy says

    November 9, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    Thanks Guys :-) You guys rock

  372. pradip says

    November 9, 2010 at 11:06 am

    how to do this with windows xp.

  373. SHAILENDRA KUMAR says

    November 7, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.
    PLZ GIVE ME SOLUTION IF ANYBODY HAVE ONE>>>>>>>>>

  374. Rolf says

    November 6, 2010 at 8:13 am

    Worked great on my Acer AOA150. Tinkering with it now it seems o work quite well. Thanks for the great instructions. I felt like a true computer guy! THX Again!

  375. Azeem says

    November 4, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Its a very nice description by the way and works good. though i have a suggestion…i.e. ASSIGN AND EXIT where exit looks like that if we write EXIT it will go out of the COMMAND PROMPT. but it actually goes out of the PARTITION PROCESS. so make it clear to other people that it will just go out of the partition process. Not all of the people think much upon this thing..Thanks…best of luck

  376. durai raj.p says

    November 2, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    how to create usb boot disk in windows xp

  377. durai raj.p says

    November 2, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    how to configur the usb bootdisk in windows xp

  378. durai raj.p says

    November 2, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    pls sent step by step create the usb boot disk in windows xp .

  379. Peter says

    October 29, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    THE GUIDE “”DO NOT WORK FOR XP””

    Your stupid fuckhead, did you not know, that people using XP, “”CANNOT”” se there USB drive in disk part / Disk list.

    Aaaaand, since 99,99% of 100, try make such USB bootble,
    bcs. they will install win 7, on a XP system, it means
    your guide do not work at all.. Christ.

  380. SIKKU says

    October 28, 2010 at 9:27 am

    My USB stick is not showing up as a DISK.
    PLZ HELP ME
    MY MAIL

  381. Partho says

    October 26, 2010 at 12:55 am

    This is not for me. It dose not show disk list.

  382. vinod says

    October 22, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Is it possible to format windows 7 with windows XP bootable CD bcz on my pc I installed windows 7 on xp it is not istalled after 37% it got blocked. whenever I want to format using xp it said hard disk not recognizable…

  383. dvhirst says

    October 19, 2010 at 5:09 am

    Thanks to Arun for his comment about Win XP version! It works as suggested, with the bootsect commeand confirming that ntldr compatible bootcode was written to the drive.

  384. Ron Vantomme says

    October 18, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    Just use Universal USB installer v1.7.9 It makes any iso bootable,on your usb drive.

  385. Tiger says

    October 14, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    Thank you!!! Perfect!!!

  386. Bartlomiej Puls says

    October 12, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    “could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied”…

    Run cmd as Administrator – it WILL work.

  387. Zzz says

    October 12, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    Guys! What if i dont have DVD of XP but XP image at my Hard Disk. In that situation, how am I gonna select that specific image from hard drive volume.

    I tried by making a virtual cd drive but CMD doesn’t recognize it and BOOTSECT.EXE doesn’t appear.

    Note: Transitioning from Vista to XP.
    Please, guide if u can.

  388. NPP says

    October 10, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    You’re the BEST, buddy! This tutorial was just what i needed cos my DVD Drive’s been acting funny!
    The jerks who say “this is too complicated” or “this is just not needed” need to broaden their myopic contemplation!
    Thanks once again, pal!
    :)

  389. Cro Hacker says

    October 10, 2010 at 8:15 am

    to all of them that whant to make the USB a USB like it whas before , just do on the repeate this part ” CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

    SELECT PARTITION 1

    ACTIVE

    and do this FORMAT FS=FAt32
    the usb returns to be a removable disc

  390. piyush says

    October 9, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    my dvd writer is not working.how can install 7 ultimate from usb.

  391. yasir says

    October 6, 2010 at 12:24 am

    same prob here

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.

    anybody with a solution please?

  392. Ahak says

    October 3, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Not working for me its not showing usb in list :(

  393. Luis says

    October 3, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    For those who get “could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied”…

    Have you checked if you are using the right letter for your usb drive? I mean if I am doing it the whole process with a usb drive where the letter assigned to it is K, then I’ll have to type this: “bootsect.exe /nt60 K:” probably that’s why we can get that error message…

    Greetings…

  394. Jingoman says

    September 30, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    i tried all the above steps and worked perfectly fine except the last step BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: (H being my usb drive letter)
    response from the cmd prmpt TARGET VOLUMES WILL BE UPDATED WITH BOOTMGR COMPATIBLE BOOTCODE.

    COULD NOT MAP DRIVE PARTITIONS TO THE ASSOCIATED VOLUME DEVICE OBJECTS:
    ACCESS IS DENIED.

    anybody with a solution please?

  395. kamal says

    September 28, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    great tut…sharing is caring

  396. palash says

    September 28, 2010 at 12:43 am

    my hdd install linux but when 1 drive remove its have no run. and when open my computer its hung. what can i do.plese give me solution.

  397. palash says

    September 28, 2010 at 12:35 am

    plese give me tips
    how to make bootable pendrive
    which will be install xp or other windows

  398. Dan says

    September 27, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    I completely bricked my computer trying to install libc6 and its dependencies in Ubuntu without an internet connection. My computer refused to boot, or even accept a bootable Linux USB. This clear, concise guide saved me so much headache! Thank you!!!

  399. shubhajeet naik says

    September 27, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    hi,
    it happend. but now i can’t boot from cd drive. can u please tell how to make my laptop defaule cd bootable…

  400. KERED says

    September 23, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Thank you. great tut. will refer friends and enemies alike to you post.

  401. salman says

    September 23, 2010 at 9:33 am

    how to install bootable usb xp? how can i make?

  402. k1ngkhan says

    September 23, 2010 at 9:23 am

    everybody pls use this software wintoflash is better

  403. Roger says

    September 18, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    @RRG… There are so many easy ways to get your spelling and grammar correct. For example, make sure YOU are using the correct software, run your spell checking software, run your grammar checking software, get an education, do some study, install a typing tutorial program and practise using it, even just use a dictionary! (Can you use one?) There are so many easy ways…

  404. nouman says

    September 18, 2010 at 9:00 am

    i have my personal data in my usb but it has been deleted
    can any one tell me how to recover.

  405. RRG says

    September 17, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    f**k of u all ppl. there r so many essy ways to make a bootable usb.. make sure u r using a orrect software.. like novicorp wintoflash…..

  406. conrad77 says

    September 17, 2010 at 3:32 am

    thanks to the nice guide…

    to all who got “could not map dive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access denied” run CMD as Administrator by going to start/all programs/accessories and right click command and select run as administrator then do the last step…

  407. Rajesh KW says

    September 17, 2010 at 12:00 am

    is their any Software which Format USB disks to Bootables..!?

  408. Gamer says

    September 16, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Perfect, worked great, thank you!!

  409. Fredo says

    September 14, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    Hello everyone, I had already read something like this before and everytime I’ve read this sort of tutorial, it’s always ambiguous…
    Basically, here you’re creating a bootable win vista or win 7 setup USB key… nothing more nothing else
    and if you want to waste your time doing all this total nonesense, be my guests! But if you want to do this the proper “SMART” way… just get Win2Flash from Novicorp (go ahead, look for it!) and stop wasting everyone’s time and wasting bandwidth!!!

  410. Selvan says

    September 14, 2010 at 4:32 am

    How about with a System Repair Disc. The Aspire 5251 did not come with a CD/DVD and “bootsect.exe” is not found on the Repair Disc of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit… Thanks

  411. Sultan Ahmad says

    September 13, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    Thanks Sobaixu! it really works

  412. Octavian Iancu says

    September 13, 2010 at 2:54 am

    Thanks a lot, great tut

  413. Microbe says

    September 11, 2010 at 7:29 am

    I really like the copyrighted screenshots LOL. Why are people so precious about such stuff when they likely have borrowed stuff themselves. It’s a screenshot dammit…why would you think YOUR screenshot is so special that no one can replicate it.

    sigh

  414. noddy says

    September 8, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    out of all the methods iv tried this is the best! thumps up

  415. yash says

    September 4, 2010 at 9:44 am

    hello

    i have tried all these but at the time of disk list my usb is not showing there. Can u tell what is the problem?
    Its a fabulous technique.
    plzzzzz reply in my mail id..

  416. JB says

    September 4, 2010 at 8:30 am

    zee, thanks for that but i don’t know where to buy..

  417. rose says

    August 28, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    My cd drive not working but I need to install xp then what can I do

  418. javed says

    August 28, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    thanks dude.thank you for this information

  419. windows hate says

    August 24, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    i hate this fucking shit because it don’t work!!!!!! when i install the things the say here my computer is dead and cannot start windows and even cannot start the reboot cd!!! so be prepared to kill your pc!!!

  420. zee says

    August 23, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    To JB, it’s quite simple; you go and get yourself one…like, gasp, buying one!!

  421. JB says

    August 21, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    hi,
    i don’t have any windows dvd
    what i suppose to do now?

  422. aion says

    August 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    hello…thanx for the amazing tutorial.but i can perform the last steps..it says could not map dive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access denied..
    what should i do??
    please tell me..
    thanx

  423. Darian says

    August 20, 2010 at 5:21 am

    Great tutorial!! Simple and efficient, thanks.

  424. admin says

    August 4, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    @ Guard

    Of course, you can format it and use it as a normal USB drive.

  425. guard says

    August 4, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    Hi,

    I was looking for an option to boot from USB as my laptop’s CD drive is not working.

    The write-up is clear. After the installation from USB, can we format the data in USB and use it like another normal flash drive to store data?

    Plz clarify.

  426. Chaz says

    July 16, 2010 at 8:46 am

    This also works to install Windows 2008 Server products. Thanks for a great Tutorial!

  427. David says

    July 13, 2010 at 8:31 am

    You need to ‘runas Administrator’ cmd.exe then run these last commands otherwise you will receive:

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied.

    David

  428. Pedram says

    June 30, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Thank you very much,good job!

  429. Scott says

    June 17, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    @Vidura : did you get an answer to intowindows.com/bootable-usb/#comment-4441 ?

    I’m getting the same error and I do not have a write-protect switch on my USB thumbdrive.

    E:\boot>bootsect /nt60 s:
    Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

    Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects:
    Access is denied.

    Anyone know of how to get around this?

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  430. ironman says

    June 10, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    how can i install xp onto a usb to make it bootable

  431. Roman says

    May 18, 2010 at 9:39 am

    WILL THIS WORK FOR BOOTING XP OR XP HAS DIFFERENT BOOT COMMANDS??

    PLZ HELP!!!

  432. Roman says

    May 18, 2010 at 9:37 am

    Hi I was wondering will this work by boot commands work for booting windows XP?? or there is some other special boot commands for XP differ from Vista\Windows 7???

    Anyone with good knowledge Please Reply Thanks!!

  433. SANDEEP PACHAURY says

    May 7, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 J: IS NOT WORKING IN MY SYSTEM.

  434. jebasimon says

    May 3, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    I’ll Like this

  435. Roman says

    May 3, 2010 at 6:25 am

    Thank You Very Very Much for this Information!! your the best!!

  436. giorgos says

    April 12, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    why should not someone do this by right clicking on the usb??????should everyone learn these commands??

  437. Montezz says

    April 1, 2010 at 6:46 am

    This is some excellent tech writing, thanks for the clear instructions, worked great

  438. Philipino says

    March 28, 2010 at 11:10 am

    thanks for great tutorial, i can now make bootable usb not only win7 but windows XP

    more power

  439. Tonmoy says

    March 17, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    Thanks man, It was perfect.

  440. bhavin says

    February 25, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    i use vista basic. i want to run xp in my usb. can any one help me?

  441. martin says

    February 13, 2010 at 12:12 am

    hi guys i would like my usb to be bootable so i could go and get my ghost image how do i do that please email.

  442. martin says

    February 13, 2010 at 12:11 am

    hi guys i would like my usb to be bootable so i could go and get my ghost image how do i do that please

  443. user says

    February 11, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    when i enter “LIST DISK” command, i see only HDD, not usb flash.
    what can i do?

  444. tvshub says

    February 8, 2010 at 5:56 am

    Maybe this will help, no warranty that this info is accurate, but some of it is.
    -bootsect.exe is on Vista disc, not on XP disc.
    -XP uses NTLDR, Vista uses BOOTMGR (OS setup different between xp & vista)
    -USB stick format must be what system BIOS can recognize as bootable — some older BIOS version only boot devices with FAT16, and there’s some other stuff that we are still learning about. So, this is why everyone may get different results. Computers are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get, and they melt in your hands if you’re not cool.

  445. Sobaixu says

    February 4, 2010 at 1:09 am

    I followed this guide and it is not accurate. I have made some minor edits to help others who have the same issue as me after following this giude. aka. Boot mgr is missing error…
    So here’s the REAL working guide.

    Guide to making a bootable USB drive using Vista or Windows 7

    (Note: this guide will not work on WinXP.)

    1. Insert your USB stick into USB port (MUST be 4GB or higher).

    (Note: Backup the data on your USB drive as we are going to format it.)

    2. Open the Command Prompt: (follow steps listed below to do this)

    Go to Start Menu >

    All programs >

    Accessories >

    Right click on ‘Command Prompt’

    Select ‘Run as Administrator’

    3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

    DISKPART (hit enter)

    LIST DISK (hit enter)

    (Note: Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk numbers of all drives connected to your PC)

    4. In this step, enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter:

    SELECT DISK 1 (Replace “DISK 1” with your USB drive’s disk number, For example: If your usb is 4GB,
    and Disk 2 shows 4000mb disk size, type SELECT DISK 2, as that is your usb drive)
    CLEAN

    CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

    SELECT PARTITION 1

    ACTIVE

    FORMAT FS=FAT32 (Format process may take a few minutes, depending on the size of the USB drive)

    ASSIGN

    EXIT

    (Note: Don’t close the command prompt as we need it for the next step. Just minimize it)

    5. Insert your Windows DVD in the DVD drive.
    Note the drive letter of the DVD Drive and USB Drive.
    (Here I use “D” as my DVD drive letter and “F” as my USB drive letter)

    NOTE: Drive letters can be assigned or changed. In the start menu right click “Computer”,
    select “Manage”. A window will open. Select Disk Managment (Near the bottom of the list
    on the left side panel), Right click a drive to assign, change or remove the drive letter).

    6. Go back to command prompt window and execute the following commands:

    D: CD BOOT (Where D: is your DVD drive letter) And hit Enter.

    BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 F: (Where F: is your USB drive letter) And hit Enter.

    XCOPY D:\*.* /S/E/F F:\ (Where D: is your DVD drive, and F: is your USB Drive) And hit Enter.

    8. Wait for DVD contents to copy to USB.

    You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer
    that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature).

  446. Zeb Sanders says

    January 15, 2010 at 9:06 am

    How to create a bootable USB drive to install Windows xp

  447. Matthew says

    January 9, 2010 at 4:59 am

    I found a utility called WinToFlash that works well. wintoflash.com/home/en/

  448. Rakesh says

    December 30, 2009 at 1:56 am

    Ya its working for windows 7
    Can anyone say me how to make a cd bootable in a similar way

  449. Jitendra says

    December 22, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Hi,
    Can u let me know,how can i install xp from USB.Please suggest how can do it.

    Thanks & Regards
    Jitendra Kumar

  450. kartik says

    December 17, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    hey guys why to make usb disk bootable just install any version of windows in ur usb drive directly but it should be 8gb usb drive for win 7 and vista and it should be 4 gb for xp,98 and vista portable.

  451. admin says

    December 16, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    @Kaim
    Of course, you can install XP from USB. But note that this guide is only for Vista and 7.

  452. kaim says

    December 16, 2009 at 4:32 am

    can i install xp without optical drive support?????????? means using usb with windows files??????

  453. zico says

    December 14, 2009 at 3:29 am

    worked like a charm. thanks dude

  454. veta says

    December 6, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Try unebootin.

    Sorry but this is for linux.

    Every distributions supported .

    By.

  455. Petterman says

    December 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Well done, works exactly as described. I’ve been looking around for this type of information for a few hours. Found this and i’m happily installing 2k3, 2k8, 2k8R2 on servers by plugging in my usb.

    Thank you!

  456. paul says

    December 3, 2009 at 1:14 am

    sorry treat

  457. paul says

    December 3, 2009 at 1:14 am

    works at teat

  458. gugu_gatal says

    December 2, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    it’s work, only for windows vista & 7

  459. Metoo says

    December 2, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    My USB stick is not showing up as a DISK. Tried with various sticks.
    Whats the issue?

  460. Ommni says

    November 28, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    Yep that’s what I got as well. “bootsect.exe” not found.

  461. lelmel sumpter says

    November 17, 2009 at 12:37 am

    “bootsect.exe” not found

  462. jonas says

    November 15, 2009 at 5:43 am

    format f: /fs:ntfs /q

  463. jonas says

    November 15, 2009 at 5:42 am

    did you try this MEHUL?

    FORMAT [f:] [/FS:file-system] [/Q]
    F: the usb drive vlume label

  464. Mehul says

    November 6, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Please please any one give me instruction to make my bootable USB back to normal. Because my USB drive speed is toooooooo slow. Copying speed is below 1MB/s.
    My e-mail address is “[email protected]”

  465. Mehul says

    November 6, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    How to make my bootable USB to normal.

  466. HALO says

    November 5, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    A po ma hani karin .
    me bo mir po nuk po bon bre familjen ta cifsha

  467. admin says

    October 25, 2009 at 11:51 am

    @ Hawksie
    It’s not possible to install Windows 7 exactly on a USB flash drive. Here is the guide that help you carry Windows 7 on USB flash drive:
    intowindows.com/install-windows-7-on-usb/

  468. Hawksie says

    October 25, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Yeah i have done this but i want to make my flahs brive a local disk so that I may install an os onto it.
    Regards Tim

  469. bachan singh says

    October 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    plz give me slids of make bootable usb pen drive

  470. Mushy says

    October 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Very good.. Worked straight up.. last line not needed for windows 7..

  471. Vidura says

    October 19, 2009 at 2:16 am

    after bootsect.exe/nt60 H:i get this
    target volumes will be updated with boot mgr compatability boot code.

    could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: access is denied

  472. sri says

    October 16, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    that’s the way…………

  473. Ivo says

    September 7, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    This is a great tut man, thanks a lot !

  474. admin says

    August 5, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    @arefiqrc
    IF you are on netbook, get the image of Windows and then extract it.

  475. arefiqrc says

    August 4, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    How to insert windows dvd on optical drive while i’m using netbook?? did’t not have dvd drives

  476. Arun says

    July 16, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    If you are using Windows XP, try

    BOOTSECT.EXE /NT52 H:

  477. david says

    June 3, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    And I also have unkind words for people who underexplain this process because I have been tearing my hair out for the last 3 days trying to get a bootable usb to put XP no my netbook without any luck. There is no reason this needs to be this hard.

    So, to be clear when you say this ‘won’t work with XP’ do you mean:

    a.) If you’re on a PC running Windows XP and you’re trying to make a USB Installation drive to install XP/Vista/7/whatever.
    or do you mean
    b.) If you’re trying to create a USB Installation drive to install XP.
    Eh?

  478. Swordfish says

    June 1, 2009 at 2:58 am

    Sunny, because of retards like you I could not make a bootable USB stick till now. Everyone that was posting this type of tutorial did the mistake called “THINKING ON HIS OWN” and removed the “BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:” part, because “it worked for him”.

    SO FUCK OFF.

    And thanks for the tutorial.

  479. Sunny says

    May 30, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    In my experience, we don’t need to do these complicated setup like yours.

    What I do is simply use the ‘format’ option for the thumb drive in Windows Explorer (right-click menu), by using the default settings. Then, extract the files in the ISO image into the thumb or simply copy all the files from setup folder to drive, and then plug’n’boot. The command prompt and code are no needed.

    I have tried this simple method many times and they all work on my 4 computers, because I heard that USB booting is originally supported in Windows Vista or higher.

    PS XP is absolutely incompatible with this function

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