HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE USB

Posted by : Ldonjibon Sunday, July 21

A friend of mine just brought a mini-laptop to me and he told me the system was displaying a blue screen you know what that means. I am not a computer engineer but I took it with faith and performed everything I know about computer on but to no avail meaning it kept on showing blue screen.

So, I thought the only way to bring the system back to live was to format it . Formatting I embarked on.

Remember I said MINI-LAPTOP (DELL). All Mini-laptops have one thing in common which is “No

CD/DVD RW Drive”. So you cant use a Installation CDs. The alternative I could think of was using flash drive as bootable installation to FORMAT the mini-laptop.

TOOLS NEEDED TO FORMAT:

1. A computer that has CD/DVD DRIVE in it (if you are transferring from a CD/DVD)

2. At least a 4gb or higher USB FLASH DRIVE (I used 8gb Flash drive)

3. Windows xp/vista/7/8 installation file

4. Iso file creator (you can use power iso)

5. And Bootable Usb Creator

Amongst the above Bootable USB Creator is the bone of contention here. When you search google, you will find many so called bootable creators but the questions are , are they free, user-friendly, stress-free to use? According to my analysis “NO” is my answer.

But I took time to search for the Bootable Usb Creator that transferred the iso file created by Power Iso to my Usb flash drive successfully creating a bootable USB FLASH DRIVE which was used to Format the MINI-LAPTOP (all this was done on the computerprovided).

I will recommend two Bootable Usb creator which will be very useful to you (since it worked for my friend’s Mini-Laptop which is now in the right condition.)

One of which is WinUSB Maker : this was the one that created the Usb Bootable Iso Without Any Complication.

Download here:

Ø Unzip the file,

Ø Locate WinUSB Maker v1.8 .exe

Ø Double click on it

Ø A window opens

Ø Select ISO Image Bootable Disk

Ø Select where the initial setup is either a bootable CD/DVD or Fold containing the installation.

Ø Below it select the “Usb Flash drive “

Ø Chose between “NTFS USBHDD or FAT32 USBHDD”

Ø Click ”Make it Bootable”

Download WINUSB Maker here

The Second is WintoBootic v2.1 very easy to use just unzip, select the Usb Drive on the left, and the installation file folder on the left. Click o create …… wait for successful result …… your BOOTABLE USB FLASH DRIVE IS READY.

Download Wintobootic here

After creating the BOOTABLE FLASH DRIVE, you can now format the mini-laptop by inserting the flash drive into the mini-laptop, select boot from USB from the booting option here you go ……..
Enjoy F ormatting.