FAQ’s on creating a bootable USB device

1. What is a bootable USB device?

It is basically a portable device which contains an operating system and all the necessary files required to start or repair a computer in any case of failures.

2. How can I format the USB drive completely before making it bootable ?

You can format the USB or use the diskpart command in CMD or powershell . To do so follow the methods mentioned above in the article .

3. What are the minimum basic requirements for creating a bootable USB drive?

You need an USB drive or a CD- drive with atleast 8GB of storage and the ISO file of the operating system you want to install.

4. What safety measures should I take before creating a bootable USB drive?

Ensure that you have made a back up of any important data of the USB drive that you are going to make bootable .

Windows is one of the most used operating systems which was launched by Microsoft back in 1985. The latest version of Windows is 10/11 which is mostly used all over the world. In some scenarios, the users may face problems related to their windows like their windows may get corrupted, may get affected by malware, or become slow and choppy.

In such cases, the best method to fix this issue is a fresh installation of the windows in your system for which you will need a bootable pendrive. A Bootable Pendrive is a disk that is used to boot up a system for the installation of Windows. In today’s article, we will learn how to create a bootable USB device through Windows Powershell / command line interface(cmd).

Before deep diving into the methods to create a bootable USB device let us understand what is a bootable drive and why do we need a bootable USB drive to install Windows/Linux.