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How To Create a Bootable USB Disk For Windows 8.1 |
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October 31, 2013 |
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October 31, 2013 |
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Introduction |
Many of today's laptops does not have a DVD drive
anymore, so if one day you decided to format your
laptop, then using the bootable USB will be your choice.
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When you purchase Windows 8 or 8.1 from
Microsoft Store,
you are able to instantly download its ISO image.

Whenever I purchase Windows, I always prefer to burn its
ISO image on a USB or DVD. So that the next time I want
to format my machine, or change its hard disk, I will
have a bootable media. You will need a 4 GB USB Disk and
to be an administrator on the computer you are
installing the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool on.
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Download the
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool
from
here

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The tool requires the Microsoft .NET
Framework version 2.0 or higher.
So if you don't have the minimum
requirement, the utility will
automatically ask you to download and
install .Net Framework. Click
Download and install this feature

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The required .Net Framework will be
downloaded and installed


Once installation is completed, click
Close

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The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Setup will automatically start, click
Next

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Click Install to
starting installing the utility

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Once the installation is completed,
click Finish

A shortcut to the utility will be
created on the Desktop, double click to
open it.

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In the Source file box,
click Browse and select
the file from the Open
dialog box, then click Next

Browse to the path where you have stored
your Windows 8 / 8.1 ISO file and then
click on Open

Once selected, click Next

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Select USB Device to
create a copy on a USB flash drive or
select DVD disk to
create a copy on a DVD disk.

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If you are copying the file to a USB
flash drive, select your USB device in
the drop-down list and click
Begin copying. If you are
copying the file up to a DVD, click
Begin copying

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The selected USB will be erased, so make
sure that no needed files are stored on
the disk. Click Erase USB Device


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The USB disk will be formatted and then
the Windows setup files will be copied
into it



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Once the bootable USB device is created
successfully, the status message will be
Backup completed. Close the wizard and
you are done.

Now whenever needed, and you want to
format your machine, you will need to boot from this
USB device. So what you will need to do is to make sure that the boot order is
setup properly in the BIOS by setting the USB boot
priority to be higher than the machine Hard disk.

Once this is properly configured, then plug your USB
device into the computer and reboot so that your
computer
boot from the USB device. The Windows Setup wizard will
start and you can continue reading
How To Install a Fresh
Copy of Windows 8 to know how
to step-by-step format your computer.

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