How to Create a Bootable USB Drive

USB (Universal Serial Bus) drive has become a device that is often used for backing up data, shifting the function of floppy disks, CDs, and ZIP disks. USB drives are not only cheap, but also very practical, durable, and can have a large enough storage capacity. To anticipate when the computer is not able to boot, we should have a bootable disk. Bootable disk can mengindarkan us from the inability to access our computers because of problems booting. By using a bootable USB drive, we can even solve the problem faster booting.

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Here are the steps to create a bootable USB drive:

1. Insert your USB drive into a USB port on one of your computers

2. Click "Start" in the bottom left of your computer screen

3. Type "cmd" in the RUN window to open the command prompt

4. Type "spare disk" into the command prompt and press Enter. After that, type "list disk" and press Enter again.

5. Determine which of the disks that display list that is your USB drive. (For example, 4GB USB drive, then the option with 4GB size that's what you need to see). Note the number that identifies your USB drive it in the paper.

6. Type the following command into the command prompt to format on your USB drive.

"Select the disk A," replace "A" with the number you get in step 5 earlier. press Enter

"Clean." Press Enter

"Create Partition Memory." Press "Enter."

"Select Partition A." Press "Enter."

"Format FS = NTFS." Press "Enter."

"Assign." Press "Enter."

"Exit." Press "Enter."

7. Insert the installation CD of Windows XP or Vista you. Your computer will read the installation CD, and a window will appear on the screen. List of all available drives will be displayed there. Look for the letters which is a symbol of the CD-ROM and USB drive. Take note of these letters in the paper.

8. Type the following command into the command prompt:

"B: CD boot," replace "B" with the letter which is the symbol of the CD-ROM. Press "Enter."

"Boot CD." Press "Enter."

"Bootsect.exe / NT60 C :," replace "C" with the letter which is the symbol of the USB Drive. Press "Enter."

9. Copy the boot information from the installation CD to a USB drive by entering the following command into the command prompt:

"Xcopy C: *. * / S / e / f B: /," replace "B" with the letter which is the symbol of the CD-ROM and replace "C" with the letter which is the symbol of a USB drive. Press "Enter."

Allow the computer to copy the data from the installation CD to a USB drive.

10. Unplug the USB drive from the USB port, replace the lid, and give the label "bootable" with markers. Save the USB drive it in a safe place. Remove your Windows installation CD and return it to its place.

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