9 Easy steps to make your pendrive bootable!

Make your pendrive bootable!(DIY SERIES)

Making a pendrive bootable is difficult when there are a lot of steps to do that but certainly if you makes your pendrive bootable in just 9 easy steps, nothing great than this. Advantage of these steps that you don't need any software to install in your computer and you can just do it with command. So here are the 9 steps that you should follow:

1) Insert your pendrive into USB port:

The very first step is simple as you just need to insert pendrive to the USB port available in your computer.

2) Open Command Prompt:

Now, you need to open command prompt in administrator mode. You can search cmd in search box and by right clicking on the cmd icon, menu will appear and you need to click on Run as Administrator. 

After Run as administrator, this window will appear:

3) Type "DISKPART" and then "LIST DISK"

In this step you just need to type "DISKPART".

Now after the "DISKPART", you need to enter the command "LIST DISK". It will shows the number of disk available in your computer.

Type "LIST DISK" this window will be shown:

4) Now type "SELECT DISK 1":

Your computer will show two disk available, make sure that you will select the disk 1 by typing "SELECT DISK 1" as disk 1 representing my external drive i.e. pendrive.

5) Type "CLEAN"

Not an important step but its better to go through the clean command as well as it will helps in cleaning of the disk.

6) Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY"

As it is important to make your partition primary because it is a reserved part of a window disk which is identified by a drive letter.

7) Type "SELECT PARTITION"

Now, you need to select the primary partition by typing "SELECT PARTITION" as it will select your primary partition.

8) Type "ACTIVE"

Now, once the partition becomes selected, you need to activate that partition by type "ACTIVE".

9) Type "FORMAT FS=NTFS"

The last step towards making your pendrive bootable is to format it in NTFS and it could be done by type "FORMAT FS=NTFS". It will take near about 10 to 15 minutes and after the completion of process your pendrive will became bootable and hence you may copy your operating system files to your pendrive for installation.

After the completion of process you may type "exit" to exit from the command prompt.