This tutorial will help you in creating a bootable USB drive of Windows Vista which you can use to install Vista in any system. It might become very useful when you don't have access to DVD drive.
1. First format your USB drive in NTFS file system. You can do it by attaching your USB drive to your system and then format it from My Computer window.
2. Now open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select "Run as administrator" option.
3. Now type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter. It'll launch DiskPart program:
4. Now provide following command:
list volume
It'll show a list of all drives in your system. Look for your USB drive entry. As in the below screenshot, the USB drive is "G" which you can determine from its "Type" entry.
Now you have to select the USB drive volume by providing select volume no. command. Since in our case volume no. of USB drive is "Volume 4", the command would be:
select volume 4
Now we have to make this drive active. So provide active command:
active
Now exit from DiskPart using exit command.
5. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We'll use "bootsect.exe" utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It'll be present in "Boot" directory.
Now provide following command in Command Prompt:
bootsect /nt60 G:
Here G is drive letter of USB drive. Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.
6. At last, copy all files/folders from Vista Setup DVD to your USB drive and you have done.
Now you can boot using your USB drive and can install Windows Vista in any system.
PS: You can also take a look at some free tools to automatically create bootable USB drives to install Windows using following link:
Ultimate Collection of Best Freeware to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows and Linux
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Imran Khan
Please Help me out I have 1gb usb flash but when i enter active cmd in the diskpart it shows
"there is no partition selected
please select a partition and try again"
it will be yours most kindness brother
Imran Khan
anyone please help me
how I create Only bootable USB drive
i have a ghost
I am Installing through USB HDD
Now I wanna Create a Simple BOOTALE USB flash
How can I Do This
so I can Boot My PC through it
Thanks
Please it is very Urgent
hitmsn
Mag search lang kayo my pang XP na ganyan... mjo marami nga lang instruction!!!!
Wh@t?
@Hitmsn: And you expect us to understand this? English please!!
Imran Khn
thanks to every body i have made this""""""""""""""""""""""
crazydoll
Grt post dude..
Xeon
Before part 5, make sure you change your command line directory to Vista's "Boot" folder.
You can do this by typing:
cd
*example* cd c:\vista\boot
MAGNUMHEART
@hitmsn haha. nkkatawa ka. nagpost ka pa ng tagalog dito. ^^
ur funny. :P people gets reacting and didnt understand what u intend to say.
let me translate what he said.
hitmsn said
"just search, there is a version for xp like that, but it does contain a lot of instructions!!!!" :|
Deepak
Hey, in step 4 when I am providing "active" command I am getting error as
"There is no partition selected.
Please select a partition and try again."
can you say me what the problem may be?
sajibe
every time i write active it says no pertition selected select a pertition and then try again
what should i do
all the proccess was folloed properly
help me