In the Discussion Thread stemming from that blog post, I was asked several questions that prompted me to revisit this technique. In this edition of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report , I'll explore these question and answers in more detail.
Conceivably, the idea of using Vista's Disk Management Console makes sense -- you could just point and click to prepare the USB flash drive. However, that doesn't seem to be the case. In fact, every piece of documentation from Microsoft that I have seen about formatting a bootable USB flash drive specifically describes the procedure using the Vista DiskPart command.
Microsoft even describes the DiskPart command as enabling a superset of the actions that are supported by the Disk Management snap-in. As such, it may not be possible. Something always seems to go wrong. However, using the DiskPart command with its very specific command structure, I have always been able to prepare a bootable USB flash drive.
Since I know using the DiskPart command works, that is the procedure I described in my article. Now, that being said, I'm open to the possibility that I may be wrong about the Disk Management Console and would ask that anyone who has been able to successfully prepare a bootable USB flash drive from the Disk Management Console, please let us know how you went about it.
If you yank out an NTFS drive that has not yet completed working with the files on the USB flash drive, you could very well end up with corrupted data. However, as long as you take these drawbacks into consideration, there is no reason that you can't use NTFS to format a bootable USB flash drive to use as a Windows 7 installation platform. When Microsoft ported exFAT over to Vista, the idea was to improve support for flash-based media by allowing the operating system to be able to support larger-sized drives and larger file sizes.
Therefore, if you have a large USB flash drive that you are going to be using for data transfer and storage, using exFAT instead of FAT32 would be a good way improve performance and to take advantage of a new technology, but not if you are using the USB flash drive as a bootable device.
To set the stage for this section, let me begin by listing the set of DiskPart commands that you will use to prepare the USB flash drive:.
I've heard from a number of folks who have been following the set of instructions for using the DiskPart command and gotten to the Create Partition Primary command and encountered the error message:. While the first part of this error message is on target, the second part tends to lead you off in another direction. The reason that there is insufficient free space to create a partition is that the existing partition is still there because, for some reason or another, the Clean command did not do its job.
So, the solution to this error is to simply type the Clean command again. If that still doesn't work, try the Clean All command. Once you do, you can then type the Create Partition Primary command again. I've also heard from several folks that after creating the primary partition, attempting to issue the next command brought up the error message:. In this case, the solution appears to be adding the Select Partition 1 command to the list of steps. This permits you to introduce Windows onto your machine without having to initially run a current working framework.
In the event that you have to download the product once more, you can go to your Download Purchase History in your Microsoft Store record and access the download there. This instructional exercise will assist you with the establishment of Windows from image. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you need to make a bootable drive of Windows 8, Windows 8. Click on the run button to start the PowerISO v6.
Additionally, the USB drive you expect to boot from. You can remove the documents utilizing a record chronicle programming, for example, 7-Zip, WinRAR, and so on.
