Hi all!

Today, reinstalling Windows is one of the most pressing problems for many PC users.

The reason for the reinstallation may be an action, an accidentally deleted system partition, and so on.

In the absence of a drive to install Windows, you will need a bootable USB flash drive.

Let's talk about this. Today I will tell you how to create a bootable USB flash drive using two programs that, in my opinion, are the most convenient.

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In order to create a bootable flash drive, you need to take a drive of at least 4 GB for Windows and at least 1 GB for Windows XP. If you want to save an OS image containing a set of certain programs, then it is better to take a flash drive of 8 GB or more.

You will also need an ISO image of the operating system, which can be downloaded from the Web, and a specialized program for creating bootable media.

WinSetupFromUSB 1.4.

First of all, you need to download this application. To do this, go to the official Internet resource of developers http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/downloads/.

It will be saved on your computer as an archive, . If you plan to create a 32-bit Windows, then select WinSetupFromUSB_1-4.exe, and if 64-bit - WinSetupFromUSB_1-4_x64.exe.

Launch the application, select your flash drive. Then check the box next to "Auto format it with FBinst" and note that you need a file system called "NTFS".

Remember! The described method consists of such steps - formatting, selecting and burning an ISO image. You can also just put birds in all the right places, select the image right away and click on "Go".

After you click on "Go", a dialog box will appear in front of you in which you need to select "Yes". A message will appear on the screen that you need to format the flash drive and all data will be lost. Don't worry, you took the flash drive with no information, right?

The formatting process takes a few seconds. After that, the program will report that the work is completed. Click on "OK" and proceed to the next step.

After formatting the flash drive, the application will immediately start recording Windows. Since we are going to install the seventh version of Windows, you should select the appropriate field. The same is true when working with Windows XP. Put a birdie, click on the button with ellipsis to.

After the image name appears in the field, select "Go". The program will begin the process of creating a bootable flash.

Creating a flash drive for installing Windows takes 3-5 minutes. When everything is ready, at the bottom of the window you will see a message, click "Done" and a window will appear in front of you with the same confirmation. Click "OK".

All is ready! If this method does not suit you, then let's consider the following.

Creating a bootable flash drive using the CMD command line

I like this method first of all because there is no need to search and download all kinds of programs here, everything is done using standard Windows tools. The seventh version has a special utility called DISKPART. It is with the help of it that we will create our flash drive. Let's get started.

Now let's move on to the last step - unpacking the ISO image and copying the files to a USB flash drive. To do this, right-click on the image and select "Extract to ..." (select any folder on the PC), after unzipping, select everything and copy to the drive. That's it, the bootable flash drive is ready!

I hope the information you received today was useful. Share the link to the read material on social networks, subscribe to blog news and see you soon!

Sincerely! Abdullin Ruslan