How to make USB bootable for window 8

USB boot means to make USB bootable and install the operating system in computer from your USB drive.

So here are step-by-step procedures how to make USB bootable

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Step 1

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Put the Windows DVD in a drive (or mount the ISO) and make note of the drive letter.  In my case it is drive G:

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Put in the USB Thumb Drive Key in the computer and make note of the drive letter and the size of the disk.   In my case it is E: and 3.8 GB

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Step 3

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You need to run an elevated command prompt. Mouse over to the right top corner (widow 8) and hold for a second then click on search and  then  right in search box CMD.

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Step 4

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Next you will run Diskpart to prepare the disk for the OS  {question mark “?” below should be replaced with the disk number of the drive you are using}

Diskpart

 List disk

 Select disk?

Clean

 Create partition primary

 Select partition 1

Active

 Format fs=ntfs quick label=”Win8-RP-x64”

Exit

 Leaving DiskPart... –

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Step 5

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Now we need to copy the boot sector.  You should still be in the command prompt window.

C:\Windows\system32>g:

 G:\>cd boot

 Run "bootsect /help" for detailed usage instructions.

G:\boot>bootsect /nt60 e:

Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.

Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.

 G:\boot>exit