The number of your USB drive will listed. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”įind the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window: The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. These instructions assume that y ou have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it.
This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS.