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These days very few people burn ISO images on disks and use them as booSoftware
dia. Now, USB drives have replaced them as they are faster and a more convenient method to install an operating system on a machine.
While there are many tools to make bootable USB drive, there’s one provided by even Microsoft, there’s a way to do the same without any software. All you need to do is fire up Command Prompt and follow some simple instructions. Let’s take a look at it:
Create Bootable USB without any software on Windows 10:

• Insert your USB flash drive to your computer.
• Search for ‘cmd’ in Windows 10 from the taskbar, Command Prompt will appear. Alternatively, you can also open the  Command Prompt by pressing windows+R at the same time and typing in ‘cmd’ in the ‘Run’ window and hitting enter.
• Right click on Command Prompt and select ‘Run as Administrator’ in case you have searched for cmd in the Windows 10 Taskbar.
• Once the Command Prompt window appears, type diskpart and hit enter. Wait until the diskpart utility runs in another window.
• In the new diskpart window, type list disk and hit enter. It will show you all active disks on your computer.

• Disk 0 for hard drive and,
• Disk 1 for your USB Flash Drive with its total capacity.

Also read: Activate Window10 Without Software

Since we are going to work on to create bootable USB drive, we will work with Disk 1.

• Type select disk 1 in the same windows and hit Enter. You will get a message ‘Disk 1 is now the selected disk’. That means, any further operation that you do will affect your disk 1 directly.
• Type clean and hit Enter to remove all of the data in the USB drive. Clean command will format your bootable drive. You will get a message like ‘Diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk’.
• Type create partition primary and hitEnter. You will get a message likeDiskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
• Type select partition 1 and hit Enter. It will choose partition 1 for setting up it as an active partition.
• Type active and hit Enter. It will activate the current partition.
• Type format fs=ntfs quick and hitEnter. This command will format your current partition as NTFS file system quickly.
• Type exit and hit Enter. Exit command will close the Diskpart program. But do not close the command prompt Windows.

Copying files from an ISO image on your PC/DVD to USB manually:

Until this step, we have been successfully able to create a bootable USB drive and the flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.

To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole installation files contained on the DVD installer to the USB flash drive.

Now bootable USB drive is ready to be used for installing Windows from the Flash drive and you’re done.