{"id":58,"date":"2011-06-16T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:22:14","slug":"formating-a-bootable-usb-device-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/formating-a-bootable-usb-device-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Formating a Bootable USB device – Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

To create a bootable, external USB device (hard drive or thumb drive) consider the following steps … WARNING: It is possible to format ANY drive with this process so be absolutely sure you target the correct drive! <\/p>\n

C:\\> diskpart<\/p>\n

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600
\nCopyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
\nOn computer: LAB-WIN7-DEV<\/p>\n

DISKPART> list disk<\/p>\n

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
\n ——– ————- ——- ——- — —
\n Disk 0 Online 149 GB 0 B
\n Disk 1 Online 1928 MB 0 B<\/p>\n

DISKPART> sel disk 1<\/p>\n

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> clean<\/p>\n

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> create parti prim<\/p>\n

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> active<\/p>\n

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> format fs=NTFS quick<\/p>\n

100 percent completed<\/p>\n

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> assign<\/p>\n

DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.<\/p>\n

DISKPART> exit<\/p>\n

Leaving DiskPart…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once the disk is formatted you have to install a windows operating system on it for it to actually be bootable. Most often I am creating such external bootable media so that I can “image” the computers I boot. In this case a full blown version of Windows is unnecessary. Instead, I create a “windows pre-install” boot environment<\/a> using Microsoft’s Windows Automated Installation Kit or WAIK for short. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To create a bootable, external USB device (hard drive or thumb drive) consider the following steps … WARNING: It is possible to format ANY drive with this process so be absolutely sure you target the correct drive! C:\\> diskpart Microsoft … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10086],"tags":[10095,10094,10088],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","tag-boot","tag-format","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}