How to make a Bootable Thumbdrive?

In this post I'm going to write a short guide on making a bootable thumbdrive.

FAQs:
Q. What does it mean by bootable?
A. On a normal computer start-up, the system will boot into your computer's local drive. By making a thumbdrive bootable, it allows the system to boot from your thumbdrive.

Q. What's is the point of making it bootable?
A. You can do alot of things on a bootable thumdrive. Some operating systems are portable, ie they can be installed on a removable drive, and start from it. I mainly use a bootable thumbdrive as an operating system installer to replace the need to use a dvd/cd installation.

Q. Why is it better to use a thumbdrive as installer?
A. Let's take windows 7 (which is what I'm good at) for example. By using a thumbdrive as installer, the process of "Copying Windows File" will be skipped, saving around 5-10 minutes. Moreover, a thumbdrive has a better transfer speed than a DVD/CD, your installation will be a lot faster. (it takes me only 20 minutes to format a PC)




















Step 1: Make sure you back up the data on your thumbdrive, any data on it will be ERASED
Step 2: Press "Windows Key" + 'R' to bring up "Run"
Step 3: Enter 'diskpart'














Step 4: Enter "list disk", this will bring up all the disk on your computer
Step 5: Enter "select disk #" where # is the disk number of your thumbdrive
You can check which disk is it by checking the size of the disk (in my case it's 1)
Step 6: Enter "clean"
*Warning, this process erases everything the drive and removes all partition*
Step 7: Enter "create partition primary"
Step 8: Enter "active"
*this sets the partition active, making the thumbdrive bootable
Step 9: Enter "format fs=fat32 quick"
*this means to do a quick format of the partition with file system fat32



Your thumbdrive is now bootable.
To use it as an installer, copy all the installation files on to the drive and boot from your thumbdrive.
Read How to change boot sequence? to boot from your thumbdrive.

~Da Noob Geek