Making a bootable pendrive using cmd prompt

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What Is Bootable Pendrive?

The normal Pendrive is in the FAT32 format(File Allocation Table),But Bootable Pendrive is in the NTFS format(New Technology File System).If you need to put a OS(operating system) you need a bootable drive.Only the Bootable drive is readable during Booting.

We can easily convert the normal Pendrive into the Bootable one.

Now follow these Steps:

STEP 1:

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Press "win key + R"

STEP 2:

Here type “cmd”.

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STEP 3:

Type "diskpart" and click Enter.

STEP 4:

Type "list disk"

and press enter. Now you can see the list of disk.

STEP 5:

Then you want to select your disk(ie.,pendrive).

Correctly select the disk(pendrive)

Type"select disk 1".(if your disk is 2 Type"select disk 2") and click Enter.

Then type "clean" and click enter.

STEP 6:

Type "create partition primary" and press enter.
Type "select partition 1"and press enter.

Type "format fs=ntfs quick" and press enter.

Type "active" and press enter.

Type "exit" and press enter.

NOW YOUR BOOTABLE PEN DRIVE IS READY.

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