How to make a USB drive bootable in Windows Operating System.

You can make your USB drive bootable by following these steps:

1. Insert a USB drive on a USB port on your computer.

2. Open "Command Prompt" in administrator mode.

3. Type "diskpart" and hit <<enter>>

4. Type "list disk" to find drive listed on your computer for your USB drive

5. Assuming your USB drive is listed as disk 1, follow the following steps:

1. select disk 1
2. clean
3. create partition primary
4. select partition 1
5. active
6. format fs=fat32 quick
7. assign
8. exit

6. Now your USB drive is ready for bootable drive.

7. Insert or mount your Windows Operating System DVD on your computer.

8. Go to command prompt and change the directory to your Windows DVD by typing the following commands. ( If your Windows Operating System is mounted on D drive).

• d: 
• cd d:\boot

9. We will use a tool called “bootsect” located on the windows DVD. Assuming your USB drive is located at E drive(E:), enter the following command

• bootsect /nt60 E:

10. Now, we copy all of the Windows files to the USB drive. Assuming you have the DVD mounted to D: and the USB drive located at E: then type following command in command prompt:

•  xcopy D:\*.* /s/e E:\

11. Now your flash drive is ready to use.

12. At BIOS settings you may change the boot order to allow flash drive as first boot.