{"id":10666,"date":"2010-04-30T05:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T05:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2010-12-28T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T09:47:48","slug":"how-to-create-a-bootable-pen-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-bootable-pen-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Windows XP with Bootable Pen Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if you don’t have a DVD writer or CD writer to format your Windows which is installed on your PC and suddenly if it gets affected with virus? What do you do? Buying a DVD writer would be the only option to you but let me tell you that to recognize a particular Dvd writer older versions of motherboard requires the drivers to be installed. The only resort to you is boot from a USB Flash drive and the process of making a Flash Drive bootable is listed below.<\/p>\n

What you need?<\/p>\n

To start with you should have a pen drive with minimum of 4 GB and more for Windows 7 and 2 GB for Windows XP if you want to make a bootable USB Flash Drive. Other requirements includes installed Windows 7 or XP or XP Service Pack 2 DVD (CD of XP\/ SP2 also acceptable) and if you don’t have such disk then you should create one. There are also limitations on which a particular flash drive will work or not, the prime factors are flash drive maximum capacity and speed of copying.\u00a0 Speed of copying isn’t a big factor but formatting would be very slow if copying speed is slow and keeping all those in mind USB 2.0 would be perfectly preferred. So total a Windows XP bootable CD, USB Pen Drive of atleast 4GB will do it.<\/p>\n

Procedure<\/strong>
\n1. Format your Flash Drive
\nThe first step towards creating a bootable Flash Drive is formatting your Pen Drive. by default the windows, Windows 7 will format you Pen Drive in FAT format but ensure that it been formatted in FAT file system.<\/p>\n

\"bootable<\/a>
Formatting Pen Drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once the Pen drive formatting is over move to next step.<\/p>\n

2. Download WinToFlash free from here [link<\/a>]. Once the download is complete you need to install the program and run it. The software is of size 6.7 MB and doesn’t take 2 mins to download it.<\/p>\n

3. As soon as you launch the program installed, you would get the following screen.<\/p>\n

\"bootable<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Now enter the windows file path where the ISO of windows lies and in the next tab provide the USB drive address.<\/p>\n

5. Click on Next will take you to further 1 step to complete the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if you don’t have a DVD writer or CD writer to format your Windows which is installed on your PC and suddenly if it gets affected with virus? What do you do? 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