How To Install Windows Vista via Flash Drive
- Open Command Prompt, type “diskpart” and press[Enter].
- Type “list disk” and press[Enter]. Carefully note down the USB flash drive’s disk number listed here. For example, Disk 1 is USB drive, disk 0 is C:
- Type “select disk 1” and press[Enter]. Here the diskpart utility is instructed to choose the disk 1 as the drive to be worked on.
- Type “clean” and press[Enter]. This command is to clear information on the volumes, partitions on the USB flash drive.
- Type “create partition primary” and press[Enter]. This command is executed to create primary partitoin on USB flash drive.
- Type “select partition 1” and press[Enter]. This command instructs the Diskpart utility to select the newly created partition.
- Type “active” and press[Enter]. This command will make current partition active to enable the USB flash drive to boot from.
- Type “format fs=fat32” and press[Enter]. This command formats the drive to Fat32 file system.
- Type “assign”and press[Enter]. This command assign a drive letter to newly formatted partition.
- Exit from Diskpart utility by typing “exit” and press[Enter].
- Now insert the Windows Vista if you are not yet insert the CD/DVD.
Assume that your DVD-drive is E:\ and your USB flash drive is F:\
Then type “xcopy e:\*.* /s /e /f F:\” and press[Enter].
Wait until all the process done. Now your USB flash drive is ready to install Vista.
#This command will dump all the contents of Windows Vista from DVD onto the USB flash drive.
#Nest step is to set your BIOS to boot from USB. Done !