How to make windows bootable pen drive

How to make windows bootable pendrive

1. To create Bootable pendrive you should have Windows 10 or 11 Pro or Home editions .ISO file.
2. If you don’t have .ISO File. Please Download Windows 10 or 11 Home or Pro Edition from this Website Click Here.
3. If You are unable to Download anyhow, Microsoft is stopping all the method to download the All Windows OS through Direct Link, They have introduced new tool called Media Creation Tool you have to install this software into your laptop and run this software then it will allow you to download the Windows 10 or 11 with Pro or Home Editions. Pleae follow the below steps to download the Media Creation Tool Download.
4. If you have windows 10/11 .ISO file then follow steps from 2.1, and make pendrive bootable.
5. For Making pendrive as bootable, you need a software called Rufus. Download a software called Rufus, Rufus is very normal and the best ever software to create Pendrive bootable. It is very easy to understand for everyone, to download this software click here.

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For Making pendrive as bootable, you need a software called Rufus. Download a software called Rufus, Rufus is very normal and the best ever software to create Pendrive bootable. It is very easy to understand for everyone, to download this Rufus software click here.

Rufus is a free, open-source utility designed to create bootable USB drives from ISO images. Developed by Pete Batard, Rufus is known for its speed, reliability, and ease of use. It’s a must-have tool for anyone needing to install or repair an operating system, create live USBs, or perform system diagnostics.

Step 2.1

Please open a software as a administrator, afetr opening a siftware the view can see in the image below, the image you see below No device is connected to this laptop.
Select Boot selection as Disk or ISO image (Please select), This option must be selected.
At the bottom you can see ‘0’ devices found it means you can identify your pendrive is not connected, or if connected then not connected properly to this laptop/desktop please connect it properly or pendrive may be damaged if not functioning then connect a good one pendrive.

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After connecting a pendrive you can see the details of the pendrive, how much GB of pendrive yo have the label name of the pendrive.
Select NTFS, why NTFS ?, and why not Fat32 ? Please read or goto Step 3.
You can see 1 device found, it means the pendrive is connected to this laptop or desktop and now ready to make bootable pendrive. Reference image-2

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Now you can see Your Device name, Boot selection Option as Disk or ISO image (Please select) and you can see right side of the Reference image-3 select option it means Browse option from here you can select the Windows10/11.iso file where you have stored like D drive or E Drive.
You can make Volume Lable, it means Pendrive name can give any name, Windows 11 Pro or Windows 11 Home. When you connect pendrive to Dekstop or Laptop it shows the pendrive name. Reference image-2

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Finally click on Start.
Now your Pendrive willbe prepared in 5-10 mins based on your laptop speed.
Once 100% completed, Press Shift Key from Keyboard and remove the pendrive. Always make practice removing pendrive from desktop or laptop, no need to click taskbar and selecting Disconnecting removable devices then it displays now you can remove pendrive, just simple press Shift Key + remove Pendrive It won’t harm your pendrive. Now try to restart your laptop or desktop test it once.

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Why NTFS, Why not FAT, FAT 32.
If We select FAT32, In every laptop or Every Service Engineer from any part of the world, while doing installationof windows Windows 11 Pro or Home edition creates partitions with NTFS only you can see ref-image. In below image you can see Hard Disk is not detected because of Our Bootable pendrive we made with FAT32 (FAT = File Allocation Table) if you select NTFS, it suports both NTFS as well as FAT32. If FAT32 supports only FAT16 or 32 it is lower version of NTFS and NTFS is a very powerful protocol. Because of that reason The drives will not show during Windows installations when FAT32 is selected. Even though Your pendrive is made with NTFS still not able to see the drives during windows 11. Please check my another blog here.

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