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Windows: Creating a bootable key (flash drive)

These instructions are for a Windows 7 PC

How to prepare the USB (flash) drive to be bootable

 

  1. Insert USB drive
  2. Open an elevated Command Prompt (or "run as administrator")
  3. Type “diskpart.exe”
  4. Type “list disk” and find the disk number of your key (by size)
  5. Type “sel disk 1” (replace the “1” with the actual number)
  6. Type “clean”
  7. Type “cre par pri”
  8. Type “active”
  9. Type “format fs=ntfs quick”
  10. Type “assign”
  11. Type “exit”

 

Final step copy Win 7/8/10 DVD files to the root of the USB stick

Note: we prepare these using vLite so we can customise the install

 

 



 

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