If you don’t have optical drive in your system or your CD drive has been damaged then problems arise in installation . You can directly install operating system using bootable USB\Pen Drive in your system. Many people give preference to windows 7 or vista over XP by using windows 7 and vista. Now follow the below mentioned simple rules and create bootable pen drive.
Requirements:
- Windows 7 and vista ISO file/ DVD
- Min 4 GB Pen Drive
Procedure:
Insert pen drive to your system make sure that pen drive is empty.
Step-1: Right click command prompt and select run as administrator. Another way, click Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
Step-2: inter the two commands
DISKPART : click inter
LIST DISK : click inter
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, you will get same figure as shown above. Now select disk 1 that is your USB drive disk.
Step-3: Inter the following commands given below one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
ASSIGN
Once it’s 100 percent complete, type
EXIT
Your monitor screen will look like following figure
Step-5: Now insert your Windows 7 or vista DVD to your Optical Drive or Mount your ISO file in the Virtual Drive. Name the drives..
Let DVD Drive or Virtual Drive =I
And USB Drive = J
Go back to command prompt type the following command
I:
CD BOOT
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 J:
Step-6 : Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.
Now your bootable pen drive is completed .you can use this pen drive to install vista or windows 7 in your system.
