{"id":59,"date":"2014-12-20T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-01-15T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T15:28:22","slug":"create-bootable-usb-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Create Bootable USB Flash Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insert your USB Flash Drive into an available port.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Command Prompt (Admin)\u00a0by right-clicking on the Start button, clicking Command Prompt (Admin), and then click Yes on the UAC prompt.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;diskpart&#8221;and press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;list disk&#8221; to determine the disk number of your USB Flash Drive.\u00a0 Type &#8220;select disk X&#8221;, where &#8220;X&#8221; is the disk number of your USB Flash Drive.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;clean&#8221; to erase the contents of your USB Flash Drive.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;create partition primary size =5000&#8221;. This will create a 5GB primary partition on the USB Flash Drive.\u00a0 You can later create an additional partition on the USB Flash Drive for persistent storage.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;select partition 1&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;active&#8221; to make the partition active<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;format fs=ntfs quick&#8221; to format the partition.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;assign&#8221; to give the USB Flash Drive a drive letter.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the contents of the Windows 8.1 DVD to the USB Flash Drive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Alternatively, you can download the Universal USB Installer\u00a0from http:\/\/www.pendrivelinux.com and follow the instructions on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps: Insert your USB Flash Drive into an available port. Open the Command Prompt (Admin)\u00a0by right-clicking on the Start button, clicking Command Prompt (Admin), and then click Yes on the UAC prompt. Type &#8220;diskpart&#8221;and press Enter. Type &#8220;list disk&#8221; to determine the disk number of your USB Flash Drive.\u00a0 Type &#8220;select disk X&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}