These days very few people burn ISO images on disks and use them as bootable media. Now, USB drives have replaced them as they are faster and a more convenient method to install an operating system on a machine.
While there are many tools to make a bootable USB drive, there’s one provided by even Microsoft; there’s a way to do the same without any software. All you need to do is fire up Command Prompt and follow some simple instructions. Let’s take a look at it.
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 diskpart.
Copying files from an ISO image on your PC/DVD to bootable USB manually:
All you need to do is open the files inside the DVD or ISO, copy them, and paste them into USB storage manually. This will make your USB drive bootable in Windows 10 (and older versions).
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Copying files from a DVD to bootable USB using CMD:
Let us assume that the USB drive is theG: drive,and the DVD drive has been assigned the letter E. You also have inserted a DVD inside the DVD drive from where you want to copy the data to create a bootable USB drive via CMD.
By default, Command Prompt’s active directory for Administrator permission is on C:\Windows\System32>. We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (E:) as its active directory. Remember there should be a DVD inside the DVD drive.
We have successfully created a bootable USB drive until this step, and the flash drive is ready to be used as boot media. Also, if you want to learn how tocreate bootable usb on ubuntu, check out our linked article.
To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole installation files on the DVD installer to the USB flash drive.
So, this is how you’re able to make a bootable USB drive without software that is ready to be used for installing Windows 10. Meanwhile, you can also read our article to learn how to perform theping of death command.
You can also use the Media Creation Tool
Not everyone likes walking the longer path when there’s a simple shortcut for the above method. Some of the other techniques that you can use are the Media Creation Tool, or you can also use some of the toptools that you can use to create a Windows 10/11 bootable ISO for free.
