Создание загрузочного USB-устройства флэш-памяти Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive

Область применения: Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 Essentials Applies To: Windows Server 2016 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Вы можете создать загрузочный USB-накопитель, который будет использоваться для развертывания Windows Server Essentials. You can create a bootable USB flash drive to use to deploy Windows Server Essentials. Первым этапом является подготовка USB-устройства флэш-памяти с помощью служебной программы командной строки DiskPart. The first step is to prepare the USB flash drive by using DiskPart, which is a command-line utility. Сведения о DiskPart см. в статье Параметры командной строки DiskPart. For information about DiskPart, see DiskPart Command-Line Options.

Сведения о создании загрузочного флэш-накопителя USB для использования при восстановлении или переустановке Windows на компьютере вместо сервера см. в разделе Создание диска восстановления. To create a bootable USB flash drive for use in recovering or reinstalling Windows on a PC instead of a server, see Create a recovery drive.

Дополнительные сценарии, в которых вам может понадобиться создание или использование загрузочного USB-устройства флэш-памяти, см. в следующих темах: For additional scenarios in which you may want to create or use a bootable USB flash drive, see the following topics:

Создание загрузочного USB-устройства флэш-памяти To create a bootable USB flash drive

Вставьте USB-устройство флэш-памяти в работающий компьютер. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer.

Откройте окно командной строки с правами администратора. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.

Введите diskpart . Type diskpart .

В открывшемся новом окне командной строки введите list disk , чтобы указать номер загрузочного USB-устройства флэш-памяти или букву диска, затем нажмите клавишу ВВОД. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk , and then click ENTER. Команда list disk отображает все диски компьютера. The list disk command displays all the disks on the computer. Запишите номер диска или букву диска USB-устройства флэш-памяти. Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive.

В командной строке введите select disk , где X — номер диска или букву диска USB-устройства флэш-памяти, а затем нажмите клавишу ВВОД. At the command prompt, type select disk , where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER.

Введите clean и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. Type clean , and the click ENTER. Эта команда удаляет все данные с USB-устройства флэш-памяти. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive.

Чтобы создать новый основной раздел на USB-устройстве флэш-памяти, введите create partition primary , и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create partition primary , and then click ENTER.

Чтобы выбрать созданный раздел, введите select partition 1 и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. To select the partition that you just created, type select partition 1 , and then click ENTER.

Чтобы отформатировать раздел, введите format fs=ntfs quick и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick , and then click ENTER.

Если серверная платформа поддерживает Единый интерфейс EFI (UEFI), следует отформатировать USB-устройство флэш-памяти в файловой системе FAT32, а в NTFS. If your server platform supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), you should format the USB flash drive as FAT32 rather than as NTFS. Чтобы отформатировать раздел в файловой системе FAT32, введите format fs=fat32 quick и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. To format the partition as FAT32, type format fs=fat32 quick , and then click ENTER.

Введите active и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. Type active , and then click ENTER.

Введите exit и нажмите клавишу ВВОД. Type exit , and then click ENTER.

После завершения подготовки настраиваемого образа сохраните его в корневом каталоге USB-устройства флэш-памяти. When you finish preparing your custom image, save it to the root of the USB flash drive.

How to Create a UEFI Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows 10 or 7?

This is a step-by-step guide on how to create a bootable USB flash drive with a Windows 10 or Windows 7 install image for a UEFI computer. We’ll need the following:

• USB flash drive (USB v2 or v3) with a capacity of at least 4 GB for Windows 7 or 8 GB for Windows 10;
• 64-bit Windows install image (32-bit Windows versions won’t boot on the UEFI computer). A Windows distribution could be in the form of the installation DVD or an ISO image file.

Let’s look at a few of the most popular ways that you can create a bootable UEFI USB flash drive for installing Windows 10.

Use Media Creation Tool to Create Windows 10 Install USB Stick

Microsoft’s official tool for creating installation media and ISO images with Windows 10 is Media Creation Tool. You can download the latest version here – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

1. Run the file MediaCreationTool2004.exe;
2. Select Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC);
3. Select the language, edition and architecture (bitness) of the Windows 10 image that you want to write to the USB drive;
4. Then select that you want to write the image to a USB flash drive;
5. Select your flash drive in the list of removable devices and USB drives.

That’s all. Click Next -> Next -> Finish and wait until the install Windows image is written to the USB drive.

Using Rufus to Create Windows UEFI USB stick

It is much easier for novice users to create bootable UEFI flash drive for installing Windows using the graphical interface of the popular Rufus utility. At the moment, the Rufus version 3.10 is available on the developer’s website https://rufus.ie . The tool is quite compact (about 1 MB), doesn’t require installation and it’s completely free. In addition, it works much faster than analogs.

Run the Rufus tool with administrator privileges and specify the following settings:

• Device: select your USB flash drive;
• Boot selection: specify Windows ISO image file (you can create an ISO image with the latest Windows 10 build using the Media Creation Tool, see example);
• Partition scheme: GPT;
• Target system: UEFI (non-CSM);
• File system: FAT32.

Click START to write a Windows image to a USB flash drive. After 10-15 minutes, your bootable USB flash drive with Windows install image for UEFI computer is ready.

Using Diskpart to Create UEFI Boot-Stick with Windows

You can create a bootable UEFI flash drive with the Windows install image manually. The procedure described below is suitable for advanced users, is performed from the command line and allows you to fully control (and understand) all the steps in the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive.

Step-by-step guide on how to create a boot Windows flash drive for a UEFI system using diskpart:

1. Connect a USB flash drive to the corresponding PC port;
2. Run the command prompt as an administrator;
3. Run the DISKPART tool by typing in the command prompt: Diskpart
4. Display the list of all drives in the computer: list disk
5. Find the disk that corresponds to your USB flash drive (in our example it is Disk 2) and select it:
   Select Disk 2

Copy the contents of your Windows x64 install image to the USB flash drive that you have prepared. You can do it using Windows Explorer, your favorite file manager or from the command prompt, for example:

(where D:\ is an installation DVD or mounted ISO image containing a Windows distro, and F:\ is a letter assigned to the USB flash drive);

This completes the process of creating a bootable UEFI flash drive with Windows 10.

Create UEFI Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows 7

If you are creating an install USB flash drive with Windows 7 for a UEFI computer, you need to perform additional steps:

1. Go to f:\efi\microsoft\boot folder on the USB flash drive;
2. Entirely copy its contents one level up (to the F:\efi\boot directory);
3. Copy the bootmgfw.efi file to the f:\efi\boot folder and rename it to bootx64.efi.

Create UEFI Bootable USB Media with PowerShell

You can also use PowerShell cmdlets to create a bootable UEFI flash drive.

The following PowerShell one-liner will list the connected USB media devices. After you select the flash drive you need, it will be cleaned up, the primary partition will be created and formatted in the FAT32 file system (using cmdlets from the Storage disk management module):

$Results = Get-Disk |Where-Object BusType -eq USB |Out-GridView -Title ‘Select USB Drive to Create UEFI bootable device’ -OutputMode Single |Clear-Disk -RemoveData -RemoveOEM -Confirm:$false -PassThru |New-Partition -UseMaximumSize -IsActive -AssignDriveLetter |Format-Volume -FileSystem FAT32

Mount the install ISO image of Windows 10:

$Volumes = (Get-Volume).Where(<$_.DriveLetter>).DriveLetter
Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath C:\ISO\Windows10-2004×64.iso
$ISO = (Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $Volumes -DifferenceObject (Get-Volume).Where(<$_.DriveLetter>).DriveLetter).InputObject

Because in PowerShell, I could not detect which drive letter was assigned to the mounted ISO image; I had to compare the list of disks before and after mounting using Compare-Object.

Now you need to go to the Boot directory and copy the contents to a USB flash drive using Copy-Item cmdlet:

Set-Location -Path «$($ISO):\boot»
bootsect.exe /nt60 «$($Results.DriveLetter):»
Copy-Item -Path «$($ISO):\*» -Destination «$($Results.DriveLetter):» -Recurse -Verbose

After the described procedures, you have a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows on a UEFI computer in the native mode. More detailed procedure of Windows installation on computer with UEFI interface will be considered in one of the next article.

How do I create a bootable usb drive with an iso image of Windows 7?

Which web site is this?

You need to convert those three files into a bootable .ISO file, the following article will show you how:

After you have converted it to a .ISO file, you need to burn it to a blank DVD disc as a disc image, then proceed to install:

ImgBurn — In addtion to supporting the creation of CD’s from .ISO files,

it supports a wide range of other image file formats, and it’s free.

(BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, MDS, NRG, PDI and ISO)

Download and install Gear ISO burn (Free):

Note: Always use the slowest burn speed (4x or 2x) if offered a choice.

You should have the option to download the .ISO file from the Microsoft Store and simply burn it to a blank DVD as a disc image. Much easier to work with than the box files.

If you downloaded your copy of Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store, try redownloading it again:

1. Login to your Microsoft Store account ( http://store.microsoft.com ) to view your purchase history

2. Look for your Windows 7 purchase.

3. Next to Windows 7, there is an «Additional download options» drop-down menu.

4. In the drop-down menu, select «32 or 64-bit ISO.»

Download the ISO Image of Windows 7
Windows 7 Professional x64 (64-bit)

Windows 7 Professional x86 (32-bit)

Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (64-bit)

ImgBurn — In addtion to supporting the creation of CD’s from .ISO files,
it supports a wide range of other image file formats, and it’s free.
(BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, MDS, NRG, PDI and ISO)
http://www.imgburn.com/

Note: Always use the slowest burn speed (4x or 2x) if offered a choice.

How to make a bootable USB thumb drive:

you will have to use a tool such as the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool)
This simple tool will help you convert the same image file into to a USB thumb drive. For installation purposes, you should get a thumb drive that’s at least 4 GBs in size to store the installation files. Browse to where the Windows 7 Image is stored, open it.

Select the USB device where you want to have the backup stored to for installation.

Once the USB device has been identified, click the Begin copying button.

And that’s it, the next step now is to boot your computer, from the thumb drive, make sure the thumb drive you will be installing Windows 7 from is plugged into the USB port. This might vary by manufacturer, but the usual one to try is F12, start your computer and press F12 repeatedly until a screen is displayed giving you the option to boot from a USB Memory device, select that and press Enter on your keyboard.

How to make a bootable USB Drive using CMD or free software

There are times when your PC is not working properly. Or there might be moments when you would have to boot your PC from an external USB Drive for Windows On the Go or other reasons. That time you would need a bootable USB Drive. This is so because USB drives are available very easily and nowadays, everyone has one. Every power user has their own ways, their own tools to make a bootable USB Drive. Well, sometimes your method might encounter a bug or error or you might be new to this and finding a way to do this. You are at the right place. This article will be discussing the best ways in which you can build a bootable USB securely.

So, before we start enlisting our choices, let’s just learn about some common terms related to Booting.

Terms related to Bootable USB

• Bootloader Options: This bootloader is responsible for loading the Operating System. Sometimes, you have a choice of selecting the bootloader when choosing the installation of a specific operating system.
• grub4dos: A bootloader package designed to allow users to select between multiple operating systems installed on a single system.
• syslinux: This is a lightweight bootloader package designed to allow users to select what type of or what operating systems are to be installed.
• QEMU Emulator: QEMU Emulator or Quick Emulator is a hardware virtualization tool that helps the user to test the booting capabilities of a Drive.
• Cluster Size: The contiguous groups of sectors that are assigned by the file system are called as clusters.
• File System: This controls the accessibility of the data. This accessibility makes sure that the data is copied properly.
• Bad Sector: This is a bonus feature that some special bootable USB maker tools provide the users with. Here, the bootable drive is checked if there are any bad sectors or corrupt subpartitions after the creation of a bootable USB.

Prerequisites for creation of a bootable USB

1. First of all, you need an ISO file of the operating system with the bootmgr or the boot manager.
2. Secondly, you will need a USB Drive (Pendrive) with a minimum capacity of 8GB depending on the size of your ISO.
3. Thirdly, you need to know if your system supports UEFI Booting. Depending on this, you can create a UEFI Capable bootable disk or a Legacy Capable bootable disk.

Now let us see how to create or make a bootable USB Drive using CMD or free software.

Make Bootable USB using CMD

This is a great way to make a bootable USB drive. That is so because you do not need any extra or third party software to be run in order to do your task. So, here is how you do it.

First of all, insert your USB Drive into the Computer.

Then, open Command Prompt by searching for cmd in the Cortana search box or hit WINKEY+R to launch the Run utility and type cmd and hit Enter.

Now, after a black window pops up, type in-

to run the DISKPART utility.

After that, you will see a new black and white window popping up that would say DISKPART>.

to list all the Storage devices connected to your computer. After you hit Enter, you will see a list of storage devices (including your hard disk) connected to the computer. Identify your disk’s number here. After this, type-

where X is the disk number, you just identified and hit Enter.

You need to clear the table records and all the visible data on the drive. For that, type-

Now, you will need to recreate a new primary partition of the drive. For that enter this command-

You just created a new primary partition. Now, you will have to select it. To do so, type-

You have to format it now to make it visible to normal users. type in-

to format it and hit Enter.

If your platform supports UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) replace NTFS with FAT32 in the previous step.

and press Enter key to exit the utility.

Now, when you are done with preparing your image for the operating system, save it to the root of the USB Storage Device.

Free software to create Bootable USB

ZOTAC WinUSB Maker

This is one of the first Bootable USB Creators that I used. ZOTAC WinUSB Maker has been my most reliable companion every time I intended to create one. We all know ZOTAC as a company that manufactures Graphics Cards, Mini PCs or other digital boards or hardware like SSDs.

As listed on its official website, here is what ZOTAC says about their product:

Easily create a bootable Windows flash drive for your ZBOX mini-PC with the ZOTAC WinUSB Maker utility. The drag-and-drop utility makes creating bootable flash drives quick and painless – just drag the destination and source into the ZOTAC WinUSB Maker, and click start. ZOTAC WinUSB Maker supports Windows image files and DVD discs as sources for compatibility with all major operating systems supported by ZBOX mini-PCs. USB flash drive and SD card destinations are supported for simple OS installations on ZOTAC ZBOX mini-PCs.

The main highlighting features of this tool are its compatibility with Windows XP and higher with .NET Framework 4.0 installed, Smooth and simple GUI based operation, Quick operations, x64 and x86 support and UEFI Support, etc. You can download a copy for you for FREE here.

Rufus

Rufus is another very famous and easy to use bootable USB Maker. This supports all kinds of USB Pendrives, Keys, Memory Sticks, etc. The minimum software requirement is that it needs Windows XP at least.

The product page on its official website says this:

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where: you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.) you need to work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS you want to run a low-level utility Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it’s about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. (1) A non exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is also provided at the bottom of this page.

It supports both UEFI and GPT installations and is also open source. It is free.

Windows USB/DVD Download Tool

Windows USB/DVD Download Tool is also a really simple tool to create a bootable USB Drive. All you need to have a pen drive and an ISO file. First, select the ISO file, check the destination drive and all the other booting settings. Now after you pass through all the four steps by clicking next, you have your bootable pen drive ready.

PowerISO

Not to be biased, but I personally love PowerISO. It is fast, multipurpose and is so feature rich. You can create various images from archives or folders; you can create bootable USB drives at a very great speed. Plus, it is portable and requires very fewer system resources. If you want to read more about it, head here to its official website.

Date: January 27, 2018 Tags: Tutorials, USB