Hello! Today we will consider the creation of a bootable flash drive. All actions will occur in the program WinSetupFromUSB. It is freely available, so you can download it for free. There should be several utilities in the archive with the program - all of them are necessary for successful work.
Training
Once you have downloaded the program, you need to process the downloaded content in some way. I will describe the creation of a bootable USB flash drive Windows XP. Before starting the recording process, you need to unzip Windows into a separate folder. This is a must. It doesn't matter what format your Windows is stored in. You can always unpack using any archiver.
Instruction manual
Perform all steps of the instructions in stages. It is recommended to take a flash drive with a capacity of more than 4 GB for this work.
1. Format the flash drive. This program for creating a bootable flash drive has its own utility for this operation. It is called Bootice (installed with the main part). Open this utility, select the flash drive you want to record to, click on “Perform Format”. In the new window, find the entry “USB-HDD mode ...”, click “Next Step”. Next, you need to change the file format system to NTFS. Click OK and accept all warnings.
2. Make the bootable USB flash drive. We return to the initial menu of the Bootice program. Now you need to select "Process MBR". Since we are recording the Windows XP operating system, we need to select the item “Windows NT 5 ...”. Next, click on the “Install / Config” button. And again, we agree with all the warnings.
3. We write Windows. At this point, our flash drive is ready for recording. Now you need to open the main program WinSetupFromUSB, where we select our device, which will be recorded. In the menu "Add to Usb disk" you need to check the box next to the item "Windows 2000 / XP ...". After that, the selection window will become active. Click on the button on the right (with three dot symbols). Specify the directory where the previously unpacked Windows is located. Click on the “GO” button. After some time, in case of a successful operation, a window will appear with the inscription "Job Done".
additional information
Creating a bootable flash drive using this instruction will take you about 10 to 30 minutes. It all depends on the characteristics of your computer and the size of Windows itself. If an error occurred during the data recording process or the download was interrupted, then you must repeat all the steps again according to the instructions. In this case, you need to start from the 1st point - formatting. After all the data is written to the USB flash drive, it can be used to install Windows. Before direct use, you must correctly configure the Bios-system of the computer and set the parameters that allow you to download data from a USB flash drive.
Conclusion
This method allows you to quickly and easily create a bootable flash drive. It should be noted that you can use not only ordinary USB-devices. But also SD drives. Creating a bootable USB flash drive should occur without any problems, if all points of the instructions are executed correctly. It is recommended that you check the quality of the recorded information first. You can test Windows using a virtual machine. In the same way, a ready-made bootable USB flash drive is also checked.