Hard disk drive recovery How to make your installation disk?

Most of time, when we need to reinstall system, we tend to use the CD/DVD installation disk. But when we do not have an installation CD/DVD, how can we reinstall the system? In fact, if you have an USB bootable drive, it may be easier for you to install windows. You can create a bootable USB flash drive now.

How to create a USB installation disk?

Preparation: you need prepare a USB drive has capacity more than 4 GB. You can check in the BIOS setting to know if you can boot from the flash drive. Boot your computer and enter into the BIOS settings. In the boot tab, if your USB flash drive is in the list, you should be able to boot from this flash drive.

Before you create the bootable flash drive, you need to back up all your data on this flash drive. If you want to use the USB flash drive as an bootable disk, you should format it and change the file system.After you have backed up all your data on the flash drive, you can partitioning the disk in the command prompt.

Click the start button and type CMD in the search box, choose the cmd.exe. Right-click it and select Run as Administrator.

In the opened window, type DISKPART and press Enter. Then type LIST DISK. It will list all the disk. You can find your disk according to the size of disk. So you should know the correct size of your flash drive and choose the correct one, or you will have data loss.

Then type these command. Note: DISK 1 is the number of your flash drive, you should replace with the right number.

SELECT DISK 1

DISKPART>CLEAN

DISKPART>CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

DISKPART>SELECT PARTITION 1

DISKPART>ACTIVE

DISKPART>FORMAT FS=NTFS

This process will format your flash drive and convert the file system. After this process completed, you can exit this window.

The next step is to make your USB flash drive bootable. Open the command prompt and type D: /BOOT /BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 U: ( replace D with the drive letter of your DVD installation drive, U is your USB flash drive.After this process completed, it will tell you that you have successfully updated NTFS file system bootcode.

Finally, you need to copy all files on the DVD installation disk to the USB flash drive. You are all set to run the USB installation disk.

Next time when you need to reinstall system, you can insert the USB flash drive into your computer. You can choose the Boot device on the boot screen. It will help you a lot when your computer cannot boot into system by itself.

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Data lost on the hard drive can be recovered for they have not been overwritten. But format will let you lost your data forever, if you do not back up your data, it is possible that they will be overwritten by new data.

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