Through the Advanced options, you can access various settings like boot format, Partition scheme, Target system, etc. It’s an advanced utility, but the interface looks simple and well organized. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER. WinSetUpFromUSB is initially made to create a Windows Bootable USB drive, but it can also create bootable Linux distributions. To select the partition that you just created, type select partition 1, and then click ENTER. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create partition primary, and then click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive. When it is over, your bootable flash drive is ready to use. By default, the active directory of the Command Prompts administrative permissions is located at C:Windows System32, so you need to set the DVD (G) as active directory using CMD. It starts the process of creating a bootable drive. Above you have assigned the letter H to the external hard drive, and you have inserted a DVD inside the DVD drive to copy data from it to create a bootable USB drive. Click on the USB drive you need (in my case, that is Disk X) and click Next. Most recently, many users, whose PCs stopped booting from the hard drive, used floppy disks. It is mainly a roll-you-own tool for people who want to make or modify a multiboot/multipass USB drive. See below for details of these utilities. Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive.Īt the command prompt, type select disk, where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER. Use the specific settings you need or The recommended options for this PC. RMPrepUSB is similar to the HP Format utility, but much more flexible and should be better at creating a USB Flash memory drive that will boot on most systems successfully. The list disk command displays all the disks on the computer. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer. Restore or repair your server running Windows Server Essentials
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Restore a full system from an existing client computer backup
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To create a bootable USB flash drive for use in recovering or reinstalling Windows on a PC instead of a server, see Create a recovery drive.įor additional scenarios in which you may want to create or use a bootable USB flash drive, see the following topics: