How To Make Bootable USB for Windows 10 Installer via CMD

If you are planning to install Windows 10 Operating System for your Laptop or PC, and don't have any CD's or DVD's on it, but you have a softcopy of the Windows 10 Installer, well the solution for that is to use Flash Drive which commonly known to other newbie as USB, now we will guide you how to do it, but since we are going to use the Flash Drive A.K.A USB (take note that in IT words Flash Drive and USB is different).

So in this case we will teach you how to make a Bootable USB via CMD from PC or Laptop, this will work also for Windows 7 as well, but since we are focusing on how to make bootable usb for Windows 10 then this is the solution, just follow the instruction provided above.

Why Make USB Bootable?

This is a good question, now, for direct answer you can't install windows 10 operating system if only copy paste the files to your USB/Flash Drive without doing the bootable process, why? it is because Windows or your PC/Laptop system will unable to read the installer since it is not bootable.

Requirements:

1. Make sure that you have at least 4GB of USB/Flash Drive
2. Windows 10 Operating System Installer
3. PC/Laptop to use for doing the process

Step By Step for Bootable USB (Windows 10)

• Insert USB/Flash Drive to your PC/Laptop
• Open Command Prompt (CMD) as Administrator
• Click the Windows logo at the bottom left corner and type in CMD
• Right Click and run as Administrator
• After you Open CMD type in diskpart
• C:\Windows\system32> diskpart
• Now type in listdisk, you will see a list of disk available on Computer just choose the drive for your USB/Flash Drive
  

  DISKPART> list disk
  
    Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
    --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
    Disk 0    Online          238 GB      0 B
    Disk 1    Online          465 GB      0 B
    Disk 2    Online           29 GB      0 B

(replace # sign to specific number for example select disk 1 if your device is listed in Disk 1).

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

• Next type clean (make sure that the important files on your USB is temporary move to your PC/Laptop before doing this process, because it will clean/delete all your files)

  DISKPART> clean
  

• Now we will create partition just type create partition primary

   DISKPART> create partition primary
  

• Select partition select partition 1

  DISKPART> select partition 1

• Next is to format partition of the created partition
  

  DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick
  

• Set the partition as active
  

  DISKPART> active
  

• Finally type in exit (This will now close the CMD)
  

  DISKPART> exit

Congratulations you now have a bootable USB/Flash drive, the next thing you need to do, is install a WINRAR application and check the ISO, now you can extract the ISO image of your Windows 10 OS, just copy all the extracted file and paste it to your Flash Drive, and you are good to go.

This process of copy paste the file is tested by us here at PH Directories, if you have any questions regarding the process just leave your comment below.