Make a Bootable Hard Drive and Install Windows 7 & 8 in easy steps

We will follow step by step solutions.

Just follow these easy steps and make your external drive bootable.

Step 1: In the very first step we will Format the drive.

Plug in your Hard drive or flash drive in the USB port. Open command prompt (cmd). 

You can open cmd by going on start and typing cmd.

Note: Run cmd as "Run as Administrator"

When cmd in open Just type the follow commands one by one carefully.

Note: Any mis-command can lead you to loss of your data.

1: diskpart

2: list disk

3: Select disk X (where X is the number corresponding for your Hard Drive or USB disk. Note: Replace this letter to the corresponding drive name/path in your system).

4: clean

5: create partition primary

6: active

7: format fs=fat32 quick

8: assign

9: exit

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You are done with step 1, Lets move to the next step

Step 2: In this step we will make the hard disk drive or Usb drive bootable

Lets assume that X is your CD- Rom drive path or drive letter with Windows 8 installation source with ISO Image and Y: is your Hard drive or Usb drive path. 

Again open the command prompt and type the following commands properly.

1: X

2: Cd Boot

3: Bootsect.exe /nt60 Y:

Step 3: In this step we will copy the data from CD-Rom or the source of installation files into our hard drive or use drive

After the successfull above steps dont close the command prompt. Now you are almost done and just need to type the following command.

  xcopy X:\*.* Y:

Here X is your source and Y is your destination, where you want to copy these files.

You can copy these files manually BUT It may escape hidden files. So, better to use Xcopy.

Wait until the copying all of the files are successfully completed.

Then, restart your system and set the boot priority to the desired drive to run it on system start. You are ready to install your windows.

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