Creating a bootable USB flash disk

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To create a bootable USB device from the ISO, you must first prepare your USB key using diskpart. You must create a single partition and activate it to make it bootable, then format the partition as FAT32 and assign it a drive letter, to copy the content of the CDROM on it. Here is the output of the diskpart utility. Be careful, be sure to select the right disk; when you run the “clean” command, all data on the partition will be erased!

PS C:\Users\Administrator> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200

Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: ZWIN2012

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online           60 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online          100 GB    99 GB        *
  Disk 2    Online         2048 MB  2015 MB        *
  Disk 3    Online         7554 MB      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 3

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> format quick fs=fat32

  100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART> assign

DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

You need to copy all files from the ISO image / CD-ROM to the freshly formatted USB key, which can then be used to boot a system.