Bootable USB Media Notes Revision as of Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 07:27 UTC

Assume that your USB disk’s drive letter is D:

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On Windows

Step 1 : Use diskpart to create bootable media

diskpart   
select disk 1
clean   
create partition primary   
select partition 1   
active   
format fs=fat32   
assign   
exit

For the step highlighted above, use list disk to make sure that your
USB stick is, indeed, disk 1. At this point, the USB stick has a
primary partition and should be bootable. However, it doesn’t have
anything to boot per se.

Step 2 : Use xcopy to copy over the files to be booted

From the directory containing the boot files (these could be Windows
installation files, for example), issue:

xcopy *.* /s/e/f D:\

Where D: is the drive letter of your USB stick. Et voila! Install
away!

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