How to make a bootable pendrive

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About booting and bootable device

create a bootable device(pendrive)

boot device is nothing but the pendrive or any removable device which is in ntfs format,usually all pendrive / removal disk are in fat32 file format so its need to convert a pendrive / any removal disk to ntfs format.the main reason for convert the file format of device is because of windows os can only load / boot from the ntfs file system disks. booting is nothing but the loading of os files from the your hard disk or from any removal disk which is in the ntfs format.

there are two ways to make a bootable device
using sofrware
using command prompt (always preferred)

boot device using command prompt

first step is to open ypur command prompt by pressing win + r button or type cmd in search
type the following commands in your commant prompt.


diskpart
list disk
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs= ntfs quick

explanation

diskpart

diskpart command is used to get in to the disk part console management so we can able to do lot of things with your hard disk and removable disk.operation such as create a partition,format a disk etc..,


list disk

list disk command is used to display all of your disk attached with your pc including removable disk such as pendrive.

select disk 1

once the list disk command was entered it will shows all the disks which was attached in your pc there is need to select the particular disk inorder to make some operations on that disk. usually pendrive shown from disk 1.
NOTE:to make bootable pendrive you must select disk 1 if you select disk 0 its your hard disk following operations may delete data in your hard disk.

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