How to make Windows 10 bootable Usb Drive

Windows 10 iso download

Download Rufus for windows

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

• Open the official Rufus page.
• Under "Download," click the latest release of the tool.
• Click the Save button.
• Click the Open folder button.
• Double-click the Rufus-x.x.exe file to launch the tool.
• Under "Device," select the USB flash drive with at least 4GB of space.

Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Using Command Prompt

Create Bootable USB without any software on Windows 10 (Using CMD)

To create your bootable USB with the help of CMD, first you need to format the USB drive using diskaprt.

1. Insert your USB flash drive into your computer.
2. Open Start Menu and type CMD to find Command Prompt. Right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator.
   Alternatively, you can also open the Command Prompt by pressing Windows+R > Type CMD > Press Enter.
3. Once the Command Prompt window appears, type diskpart and hit enter. Wait until the diskpart utility starts running.
4. In the new diskpart window, type list disk and hit enter. It will show you all active disks on your computer.
5. Most probably, you will see two Disk types.
   Disk 0 is for the hard drive and,
   Disk 1 is for your USB Flash Drive with its total capacity.
6. Since we are going to work on to create bootable USB using CMD, we will work with Disk 1.
7. Type select disk 1 in the same window and hit Enter. You will get a message ‘Disk 1 is now the selected disk’. That means, any further operation that you do will affect your disk 1 directly.
8. Type clean and hit Enter to remove all of the data in the USB drive. Clean command will format your bootable drive. You will get a message like ‘Diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk’.
9. Type create partition primary and hit Enter. You will get a message like Diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
10. Type select partition 1 and hit Enter. It will choose partition 1 for setting up it as an active partition.
11. Next, type active and hit Enter. It will activate the current partition.
12. Now, type format fs=ntfs quick and hit Enter. This command will format your current partition as NTFS file system quickly.
13. Type exit and hit Enter. Exit command will close the Diskpart program but it doesn’t close the CMD window.