The system will report “Partition 1 is now the selected partition.” Type select partition 1 and press enter.The system will report “DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.” Type create partition primary and press enter.The system will report “DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.” This will remove the disk from your current drive letter for your USB. The system will report: “Disk 4* is now selected” (*Where disk 4 is the number of the USB drive, change this number to reflect your system). repeat until you know you are on the right USB drive. If you do not know which disk is you USB drive go through the list by typing Select Disk 1 enter and then type details.You will see a list of all the disks on your computer.At the command Prompt type Diskpart and press enter.
Open a command prompt (with administrative rights if required by your OS).Task 1: Making the USB drive an Active Primary Partition. WARNING: This article assumes you have significant administrative experience and understand the consequences of each command. WARNING: Your USB drive must be large enough to store the content of your DVD drive. WARNING: All information on your USB drive will be erased. WARNING: The drive letter of the USB drive might change during this process. You will need to know the drive letters of your drives such as the DVD drive with the Windows 7 media, the drive letter the USB stick. What the tarnation is that? If you don’t have a DVD of a floppy drive you need this method.īefore we begin you will need to know a few things. First of all, I hate that HP utility that needs a floppy.
There has got to be a way to create a bootable USB drive using Windows! In this article I will describe how to do it with nothing more than the Windows DVD and a separate Windows workstation.