Make Windows Install Usb Stick

The days of burning operating system ISO images to a disc are long gone, today most PCs can boot from USB so it's just easier to update and more convenient to install Windows from a USB flash drive. Another good reason to install in this way is the installation speed, which is significantly faster than optical drive setup. Many modern devices do not come with an optical drive. Let's see how to transfer Windows 10 setup to a bootable USB stick. If you are running Windows 8 at this moment, then no third party software is required, but in Windows 7 you need some tool like 7-Zip archiver to extract the Windows 10 ISO file contents.

  1. Make Windows Install Usb Stick Drive
  2. How To Make Windows 10 Bootable Install Usb Stick

Now tell the media creation tool which USB stick you want to install on. As you can see above, I clicked on Drive F. If you don’t see your USB stick, click “refresh drive list” at the top. Make sure you get the right USB stick. Remember, everything on it gets wiped, so clicking on the wrong drive would be pretty bad. Mar 09, 2017  Before you can create your USB installation drive, you’ll need to have your Windows installation media available as an ISO file. If you already have an installation DVD, you can use it to create an ISO file using ImgBurn, a handy little free utility that’s been around forever. If you don’t have Windows installation DVD, you can download ISO files for Windows 10, 8, or 7 directly from Microsoft. Aug 30, 2015  Hi, I downloaded the Win10 ISO and used the 'Win 7 create DVD' program to create a bootable USB. I put the USB stick in my Win 8.0, UEFI laptop and it doesn't recognise the USB stick as being windows. How to install Windows 10 from USB with UEFI support About to install the latest version of Windows 10 on a device using UEFI? Use these steps to create a compatible USB bootable media to perform.

Ever wanted a copy of Windows you can take with you wherever you go, to use on any computer you want? It's possible: here's how to install a portable version of Windows 8 on a USB hard drive that. Now, let me discuss the best way to set up a bootable USB for Windows XP step by step. Create Bootable USB and Install Windows XP from USB on a PC or Notebook. To install Windows XP operating system on a Windows PC, you have to follow the below steps. But I did have a USB flash drive and so I decided to create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 8. To create a bootable USB flash drive the easy way, you can download the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool from the Microsoft Store. If you feel adventurous and are comfortable with command line tools, below are the step-by-step.

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Warning! You will need to erase all data from the USB flash drive you use for this, so make a backup of the important data on it before you proceed.

You need to unpack the ISO file. In Windows 7, use the free and open source 7-zip archiver or install Virtual CloneDrive software which is also free. It creates a virtual drive which can mount ISO images and you can work with them like a regular DVD disk inserted in the physical DVD drive.

Make Windows Install Usb Stick Drive

In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, you don't need any third-party software to extract the ISO's contents to the USB flash drive: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have built-in support for ISO images. Simply double click the ISO to mount it; Windows 8 will create a virtual DVD drive inside the This PC folder. Then you can just copy and paste files from the virtual DVD drive to your USB stick.

Important Note: You cannot create a bootable 64-bit (x64) Windows 10 USB stick from a 32-bit (x86) edition of Windows. Use a 64-bit edition of Windows to create a 64-bit USB stick. However, you can create a USB drive with 32-bit (x86) edition of Windows from a 64-bit edition of Windows.

  1. Download Windows 10 if you do not have it as described here: Windows 10 Technical Preview direct download links.
  2. Open an elevated command prompt
  3. Type the following:


    Diskpart is a console disk management utility which is shipped with Windows by default. It allows you to perform all disk management operations from the command line.

  4. Connect your USB stick.
  5. Type the following in diskpart's prompt:

    It will show a table with all your disks, including the currently connected USB stick. Note the number of the USB stick drive.
    In my case, it is Disk 1

  6. Now, you need to select your USB disk in diskpart. Type the following:

    Where # is the number of your USB stick drive. In my case, it is 1, so I have to use the following command:

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  7. Type the following command:

    This will erase all data from your USB drive.
    Note: You can skip this step if you are an advanced user and know that your USB stick has a proper filesystem. If you are not sure, it is better to clean the partitions and data.

  8. Type the following command:

    This will create a primary partition which will store your data.

  9. Now you need to format the partition. Use the following command:
  10. Next, type the following command:

    This is to allow your USB stick to be able to load some bootloader.

  11. Now your work in diskpart is finished. Type 'exit' to leave it. You will return to the elevated command prompt - do not close it.
  12. Double click the ISO image in Windows 8 to mount it, and copy all files from the Windows 10 ISO image to the USB stick. This will take a few minutes depending on the speed of your USB flash drive. On Windows 7, open the Windows 10 ISO with 7-Zip and extract all the files to the drive letter of your USB stick.
  13. The final part: you need to write a bootloader to your USB stick. Suppose your mounted ISO image has the drive letter, D: in the This PC/Computer folder, and your USB stick has the drive letter E:
    Then you need to type the following command at the elevated command prompt:

    This will write the NT6 boot sector to your USB stick. Replace the letters in my example with the appropriate letters in your OS.

How To Make Windows 10 Bootable Install Usb Stick

That's it! Now you can use this USB stick to boot and install Windows 10 on any computer that supports booting from USB.

P.S. In fact, once you make the USB drive bootable by writing the boot sector, as long as you don't format the drive, you can simply erase all the files on it and copy newer files from an updated ISO to the same flash drive, and it will still boot.

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