Thursday, September 29, 2011

Creat a bootable pen or flash drive in three easy steps

Many people they might know how to create a bootable flash drive or a pen drive

When you google around  you'll find many ways to creating  a bootable pen drive, it can be created using commands line but i prefer the most easy and nice way to create it without making and mistakes.

Here we are going to use a software which is very good in doing this and the software is WinToFlash, its a freeware ( Download it from here). It is a portable application, after downloading all you have to do is extract the zip file. Now start WinToFlash, insert the Windows CD/DVD in your optical Drive, next thing you have to do is to plug in the USB flash drive and specify the paths, Click ‘Next’ This might take some time depending upon the size of the installation media.
create a bootable usb drive
I choose WinToFlash because it is very useful other than other application, Why...? ok here is the reasons, it can also be used transfer Preinstalled Environments (PE’s) to a flash drive. Go to the ‘Tasks’ tab and choose the appropriate option you want to use.
create bootable usb drive
Creating a bootable flash drive from an ISO image is a little more tricky. WinToFlash doesn’t let you to specify an ISO image as the source for Windows file. To get around this limitation, you can do one of the following:
how to make a bootable usb drive
  • Extract the ISO file. Most modern archiving software can extract files from an ISO image. I used 7-zip.
  • Virtually mount the ISO image (try Virtual CD-ROM control panel) and specify the virtual drive as the Windows file path in WinToFlash.
convert bootable cd to bootable usb drive
The rest of the process remain unchanged and you will get a bootable USB drive after successful completion.

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