How to Make Bootable Pendrive By Using Command Prompt

Hello Folks,

This is MuthuB here. Today,I will be sharing an useful tip which might help you lot when you're trying to load operating system on your computer with help of your Pen Drive,Micro SD Card.

If you want to load operating system on your computer by using your Pen Drive or SD Card, then the first step you should perform to make your Pen Drive or SD Card as Bootable. For this, there are multiple ways and softwares which are available freely on the internet.

If you don't rely on such type of tools or don't get access to them, Then command prompt is an ultimate way to make your USB Pen Drive as Bootable. When compare to other methods this is an easy and efficient way as well. This is trick may be help you in an emergency where time & security is major concern.

How to Make Pen Drive As Bootable Using Command Prompt

Before getting started you must make sure that you don’t have any important data on your Pen Drive or SD Card because in this process it  is an important task to Format your Pen Drive  to make it as a bootable device using command prompt.So lets get started with the following steps.

Step #1
Plug the empty Pen Drive to your computer then open the Run program window by Pressing Windows(Start)+R or search it by the name of Run in all programs. You will get a small window at the left bottom corner of the display. As shown below.

Run Window Fig-1

Step #2

Type the keyword called cmd and  the  hit enter.

Now you will get command prompt program window as shown in Fig 2.

Command Prompt -Bootable Pen Drive

Step #3

Execute the following 7 commands on your computer to make your Pen Drive as bootable without any software tools.

Diskpart

List disk

Select disk 1 

Clean

Create partition primary

Format fs=ntfs quick

Active 

Exit

Reference Fig.3

command-prompt-make-using-pendrive-bootable

Al right! Now the Pen Drive is Bootable next,we''ll copy the OS files into it.

Step #4

Now copy the Operating Systems  files and paste it into the Pendrive as shown in the below Fig-4.

Copy File as shown in above figure

Step #5

Once the data is copied successfully into the Pen Drive then reboot your computer & Go to Boot setting in BIOS by pressing Del or Esc or F2 or F9 or F10 or F12(varies with brand)

depends upon the Bios or Motherboard manufacturer this function keys might be different for every one.

Set your pen drive as First boot device and then save it.Now your computer will restart automatically then boot from your pen drive.

I hope this could be the useful article for you.If you have any queries about this article please feel free to leave valuable feed backs via comments in comments section below.I am glad to help you and don't forget to share this article to friends via social media this let them gain knowledge like you. 

Securing Your Computer From Hacking

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We are living in a digital world where the effective usage of computer is growing rapidly, Because whatever the work had been done by human being were manual.But, now its fully computerized due to it's reliability, accuracy ,effective performance & so on. Computer is an incredible device which brings the entire world in front of you.

The evolution of computers begun after the introduction of internet. Around 40% of people are using internet across the globe. Don't think it's just a 40 %, because it's not a small amount when compared to entire population of the world, It will be almost Billions of head counts across the globe.

Of course, Today computer becomes an essential device for all of us, That is why it's so important to everyone to be aware of basic security practices to get rid of getting Hacked or being affected by Viruses,Malware,etc.

So,Today I will be taking you through some of the major good security practices which you must implement on your computers,laptops if you don't want to be among those victims.

STEP #1 : Install Good Antivirus & Get Updated 

It's an important step that you shouldn't ignore to perform because antivirus plays a major role for securing your PC from virus.

But don't think it will be hundred percent safe once if you install good antivirus on your computer, Because, Each and every day there are thousands of new viruses which are freely floating on the internet in search of loop holes in your software installed in your machine. So it's an essential action to get your antivirus updated with latest patches whenever available.

How To Choose Best Antivirus For Your Computer...?

This is where you should take the clever move since there are wildly accepted crack that some of the antivirus companies which themselves are giving birth to new Viruses then in turn they'll release Antivirus Packs to kill their own viruses only if you pay them big.  .

So,We recommend you to use Microsoft's PreInstalled Antivirus Windows Defender(Windows  8 & above) Or Microsoft Essential(Windows 7). It's completely free of cost &  even it does a fantastic jobs as well by cleaning all the Malware's,Root kits,Viruses and all other undetectable infections that may harm your machine.