David Zych

13 OCTOBER 2014
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DISKPART
Install Windows 10 from a USB Flash Drive
I�m writing this because I can, for some reason, never remember how to use
Diskpart. And who uses DVD�s anymore? Download the Windows 10 preview ISO from
here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview

Steps
1. Insert a usb drive at least 4gb in size
2. Open a command prompt as administrator
Hit Windows Key, type cmd and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter. This will force it to open as
admin.

3. Run diskpart
This will open and run the Diskpart command line utility, which allows you to
manage disks, partitions and volumes.

C:\Windows\system32> diskpart

4. Run list disk

This will list all disks on your system. You�ll see the something similar to this:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 238 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 465 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 29 GB 0 B
5. Select your flash drive by running select disk #
Find the item that corresponds with your flash drive and select the disk. In the
example above, my flash drive is disk 2 so I�ll run:

DISKPART> select disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

6. Run clean
WARNING: This deletes all data on your drive
The clean command marks all data on the drive as deleted and therefore removes all
partitions and volumes. Make sure you want to do this! If you are sure, run:

DISKPART> clean
7. Create a partition
DISKPART> create partition primary
8. Select the new partition
Since we know there is only one partition, we can just run this:

DISKPART> select partition 1

Without checking the partition number. If you�re really curious, run list partition
to check.

9. Format the partition

To format it, we�ll use the NTFS file system and run a quick format:

DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick

10. Set the current partition as Active
Run:
DISKPART> active
11. Exit diskpart
Run exit. This will exit diskpart, but leave the command window open.

12. Mount your ISO

Use Virtual CloneDrive or similar.

13. Navigate to the mounted image and install a bootsector

My ISO is mounted as G:\, so I�ll navigate to G:\boot and run:

C:Windowssystem32> G:
G:\> cd boot
G:\boot> bootsect.exe /nt60 E:
Where E:\ in this case is my flash drive�s letter.

14. Copy the entire contents of the ISO to your flash drive
You can either do this from Windows using Ctrl+C+Ctrl+V, or from the command line
using xcopy.

G:\> xcopy g:\*.* e:\ /E /H /F

/E copies all subfolders, /H copies all hidden files and /F displays all source and
destination file names as it�s copying.

Once that�s done, go and install Windows!

David Zych
David Zych
Dave is a dad, husband, programmer, (amateur) photographer, half-Canadian, alumnus
of CSUCI, and an overall nice guy.

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