
Write a New Boot Sector to USB Flash Drive Your USB flash drive is now prepared for the next phase.
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Windows will automatically mounts and assigns a drive letter to USB flash drive. This performs a quick format and labels the drive in one step. Type Format FS=Fat32 Label=Winboot quick and hit Enter key. For booting it is important to set the partition as active.Type create partition primary and hit Enter key. Now it is time to create the partition.Type clean and hit Enter key to destroy any partitions, file system, and data that may currently be on the USB flash drive.(Replace the # hash symbol with the actual USB flash drive assigned disk ID, such as 1).


Many computers with the new UEFI BIOS replacement have problems booting USB flash devices with any file system other than FAT32.

Only one partition can be on the USB flash drive, it must be set to active, and the file system must be FAT32. The partitioning and files ystem on the USB flash drive are important for booting. Save any important documents to another location before proceeding to the next section. Before you begin it is important to understand that any data on your USB flash drive used to create the boot media will be permanently deleted because the process formats the USB flash drive.
