What is the need to create a bootable USB?
A bootable USB drive is a USB drive that contains all the necessary files to boot a computer. Following are the cases when a bootable USB drive is needed:
- To install a new operating system on your device.
- To recover from a system failure
- To create a portable version of your operating system.
- To run a diagnostic tool on a computer that is not booting properly.
Now that we understand the need for a bootable USB drive, let’s review the methods for creating one.
Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Stick With PowerShell
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.