Making a USB flash disk bootable

How to make a flash disk bootable

Now i know some of you might be having PC's without a CD drive you will find this very helpful.
You need a computer with a cd drive to do this if you don't have an image of the installation disk which you have to mount to access.

Please follow the following steps carefully

1. You require a flashdisk of 4GB or above to do this
2. Make sure you have nothing saved in it.If so you can simply format it
3. Open command prompt with user priviledges.You can do this by right clicking cmd.exe in the /windows/system32 directory and choose Run as administrator.
4. Type diskpart    (diskpart opens  in the command line window)
5. Type list disk. This displays all disks connected to your computer including your hard disk.Since your  computer counts funny it indexes the disks from 0, so your hard disk is DISK 0, and your connected flash drive should be DISK 1.
6. Type select disk 1.
7. Type clean
8. Type create partition primary
9. Type select partition 1
10. Type active
11. Type format FS=NTFS(This might take a while so pleaase be patient)
12. Type assign
13. Type exit (This only exits diskpart so don't worry)
14. You need to put the windows installation disc into the cd drive.
15.  Open it and go to the boot folder
16. In command type cd E:\boot  E:\ is the drive letter of your cd drive.
17. You should not the drive letter of your USB flash disk.Iam going to use F:\ as an example
18. Type bootsect.exe \nt60 F:

You should get a message telling you that the disk has been succesfully loaded with compatible boot code.     :-)

GOOD LUCK