Bootable flash drive/USB

To learn on how to make a bootable flash drive that can be use in installing in any Operating System.

All students will participate in the activity/task. They will send at least 5 pictures of step by step process on making bootable flash drive with the use of CMD or command prompt and 1 picture for the output that shows they made it.

HOW TO BOOT A FLASHDRIVE? (complete /step by step)

// before you start, make sure that the OS file is extracted to the desktop.

1. Insert the flash drive

2. Press the Start Button in your screen.

3. in search box just type "CMD"

4. when the Command Prompt appeared, right click on it and click "Run as Administrator". //Do not forget to run it as an administrator.

* CMD Shows *

5. In Command Prompt, type "Disk part" and press enter.

6.Wait for the process then type "List disk". //shows the disks inserted

*Disks will appear*

7. Find the disk of your flash drive and type "Select disk X" // do not use X. Use the number of the disk.

8. Then type " Clean "

*DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.*

9. type "Create Partition Primary" then enter.

10. Type "Select Partition 1" then enter.

*Partition 1 is now the selected partition.*

11. Type "Active" then enter.

*DiskPart marked the current partition as active.*

12. Type "Format fs = ntfs quick" then press enter. // This command will format your flash drive quick.

*100 percent completed*

*DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.*

13. Type "Assign" then enter.

*DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.*

14. Then type "Exit" and press enter to leave the disk part.

//FINDING THE OS FILE IN DESKTOP

Basic Commands:

CD/ = BACK

CD (FILE NAME) = OPEN FILE

DIR = TO VIEW THE FILES IN THE DIRECTORY FILE

15. type "cd/" and enter to go back to the root system of your computer.

16. Then type "cd/users" and enter. // this will access the accounts of your PC

17. Type "dir" or "cd (PC name)" and enter. // Dir command = to view the name of accounts in Users folder (Only use if you forgot your PC name)

18. Type "cd Desktop" and enter. //To access the desktop

19. Type "dir" or "cd (folder name of OS in desktop)" and enter. //dir command = To view the desktop files. Why desktop? because you extracted the OS file in desktop to access the files easily.

// Once you access the OS folder in desktop, Find the "boot" folder inside of it.

20. Type "cd boot" and press enter.

//once you access the boot folder ....

21. Type " bootsect.exe /nt60 E: " //Drive E: is just an example. Choose the right drive where the Flash drive inserted. How to know your drive letter? just go to the my computer.

22. Then Press enter.

*Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

E: (\\?\Volume{396ea864-1e62-11de-a02a-000c76b0f5c0})

Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode.

Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.*

23. Then go to your desktop and open the folder of your OS and copy all the files inside of it.

24. Then Paste it in your flashdrive.

THEN AFTER COPYING... YOUR FLASH DRIVE IS NOW A BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE

the grade is according to the output. If they made it then the grade will be 100 and 85 for those who not.

therefore, the grades are only 85 and 100.

Bootable Flash drive is the final output and that is one will be graded.

Carl Janson C. Baluyut

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