Create Your own Bootable USB for Windows 7/Vista ~ Hack The Dark

It is easy to create your own bootable USB drive for Windows Vista/7.

The advantage of using USB over DVD is that it is easy to carry, it increase the installation speed.
By using USB you are also able to install windows on those systems which do not have any DVD drive.

Requirements:

Windows 7/Vista installation DVD
USB drive minimum 4GB of capacity
Free Time.

Follow the Steps:

Insert your USB drive and backup all its data.
Open command prompt. go to start > All Programs > Accessories > right click on command prompt and select open (for XP) or run as Administrator (for Windows 7/Vista).
Now in the command prompt type > DISKPART

You'll redirected to DiskPart utility. Here type LIST DISK. It will show you a list of drives.
Here DISK 0 is normally the Hard disk. Identify your USB drive (in my case its Disk 1) and type SELECT DISK 1 (you can replace DISK 1 with your drive)

Now type the following commands one by one

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK

ASSIGN

EXIT

Close the command window. Insert your Windows 7/Vista DVD.
Open notepad and copy the following code into it:

G: CD BOOT

CD BOOT

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 J:

EXIT

Remember here G: is DVD drive and J: is USB drive (you can replace it by yours). Save as boot.bat. Double click on this file
Now copy all the contents of your Windows DVD into your USB flash drive.

That's it. you're done. Now your USB is ready to boot on the system. Don't forget to set the USB boot priority from your BIOS.

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