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How to make a USB Unbootable using cmd?

Last Updated : 29 Oct, 2022
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A bootable USB is a disk that is used to boot up a system for the installation of an Operating system like Linux, macOS, windows, etc. A USB can be made bootable using a command line only for the systems that have windows installed (7/8/10 or higher). A normal USB drive is used for purpose of copying data from one computer to transfer data to another computer, while a bootable Pendrive is used for performing upgrades and updates on a computer. After a USB is turned into a bootable drive it also acts like a normal USB storage device that has an ISO image of an Operating system saved on it, if using a USB drive as a storage medium is your priority so you should always consider turning the bootable drive to a normal drive. 

Steps to Make USB Unbootable using CMD

Step 1: Open the command prompt by pressing windows + R (and type cmd) or you can go to the Start Menu and type cmd. make sure you run the command prompt as Administrator.

Running-command-as-administrator

 

Step 2: Type diskpart and press enter, The diskpart commands interpreter helps you manage your computer’s drives (disks, partitions, volumes, or virtual hard disks).

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Step 3: Type List disk and press enter. This command will list all the active disks in your system.

Typing-list-disk

 

Step 4: Type select disk n (where n is the number of your disk) and press enter. Usually, the USB drives are disk 1, but make sure you check before selecting any disk.

Selecting-disk-1

 

Step 5: Type clean and press enter. It is very necessary to clean the disk so that the disk images or iso files could be deleted.

Typing-clean

 

Step 6: Type create partition primary and press enter.

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Step 7: Type Active and press enter.

Typing-active

 

Step 8: Type format fs= fat32 quick (this is the file system that the disk will be using) and press enter (wait for a while process gets completed). the most famous partition is NTFS and windows also uses this file system but sometimes drives do not support this so use fat32.

Typing-formatfs

 

Step 9: Type Assign and press enter.

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Now you can exit the command prompt by typing exit, your bootable USB drive is now unbootable and ready to use. You can use it as a normal storage device for transferring data from one to another computer. 


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