This guide will cover creating a bootable USB drive to be used to install Windows. This will work with Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.
- Plug in your USB drive to be used to create your bootable install disc (make sure it is at least 4GBs to accommodate your Windows install data
- Open an elevated command prompt (press the Start button and type cmd, right click on Command Prompt and select "Run As Administrator")
- Type diskpart to enter the diskpart utility
- Type list disk (make note of the Disk # located next to your target device. Your device should be identifiable by the size) In this example our target device is disk 3
- Now we need to select our disk with the following command select disk 3
- Now lets remove any existing partition information (Make sure to copy any data you have off the drive before proceeding) now type clean
- Next we create a primary partition create part primary
- We can verify the partition was created with list part
- Now select the partition with select part 1
- Next we need to format it format fs=ntfs quick
- The last step is to mark the partition active by typing active
- Type exit to close diskpart. At this point you can close your command prompt
- Now extract the content from your ISO file and simply copy it to the disk
- Congratulations you now have a bootable install disk