Bootable USB with DiskPart

Creating Bootable USB with pre-installed tool on windows

Steps to create bootable usb without using any thirdparty tool.

There are lot of tools out there, many you find with high rating, many which you don't have idea if they are what they actually say they are and most with high ratings are some times paid.

If you like to see if there is any option to avoid installing all those third party applications and for free. this blog might be help full to you.

Diskpart:

Diskpart comes pre-installed with every Windows Operating system, IT was first introduced in early 2000, replacing it's predecessor fdisk. It is very powerfull tool, It can be used to clean majority of Storage media , such as HDD, SDD, as well as USB, Diskpart can also be used to create partitions, format partitions and create bootable CD/DVD , HDD, SSD also USB.

Procedure:

Launching Diskpart:

There are two ways to fire this tool up,

first It can be run by pressing 🪟+ r button on your keyboard,
window will popup as below, nothing to get scared of.
Then type diskpart and press enter or press ok button with mouse

⚠ Alert at this point process will ask for password for administrative privileges go ahead and enter password, unless you are already using Administrative Account
Diskpart requires administrative privileges to run because it performs critical operations that can affect the system's disk configuration
After giving administrative privileges window will pop-up similar to CMD (Command prompt)
instead of " C:\ " you will see DISKPART>

Now we are ready to dive into from preparing USB for bootable USB to making it bootable
below are the steps to follow

Let us start with listing disk with below command
DISKPART>list disk
Here we will be selecting storage media , in my situation I connected USB for this purpose. Run below command to select partition, I selected Disk 2 for this purpose
DISKPART>select disk 2

This selected storage media may have some form of data or partition already on it , we don't want any of that
for that purpose we will start with cleaning up USB partition table, run below command to clean the disk

DISKPART>clean

Now we have clean storage media , we will start with creating partition
DISKPART>create partition primary

Once the partition is created, let us go ahead and list partitions to make sure process was successful as expected
DISKPART>list partition

We can see only one partition in list, we will select listed partition
DISKPART>select partition 1
After selecting partition , we will format partition with NTFS file system
DISKPART>format fs=ntfs quick
Once partition is formatted , now our USB is accessible from file explorer to store media in it. last step to make it bootable is by making it active, run below command to activate partition, so system can recognize it as bootable
DISKPART>active
Windows should assign drive letter automatically but just in case if it doesn't, run bellow command
DISKPART>assign
now we can exit DISKPART tool by
DISKPART>exit