Next choose ‘2’ from the menu and change the drive letter to any drive letter which has not been taken. A new popup will appear asking you to choose the location (path) of the Windows installation disk. At the Command Prompt menu, type ‘1’ and press. Now at this stage, you will have to insert the Windows XP installation disk into your optical drive.
STEP 5: Enter the source path for the Windows XP CD. Press any key to continue and you will see a welcome screen with a menu appear in the Command Prompt. Here execute the command ‘usb _ prep8’ and press. Now you will need to change to the directory ‘Usb_Prep8’ by using the command ‘cd C:komkuusb _ prep8’ and pressing. Check to verify the drive letter used by your USB flash drive). (The ‘F:’ is the USB flash drive letter represented in ‘My Computer’. Now type the command ‘bootsect /nt52 F:’ and press. Then go to the ‘bootsect’ directory by typing the command ‘cd C:komkubootsect’ and pressing. Click ‘Start > Run’, type ‘cmd’ and press. Next you will need to start the command prompt. STEP 3: Copy the boot sector to the USB flash drive Once it’s done, click start to let the utility format the drive. Select ‘USB removable’, ‘Enable Disk Format’, ‘Quick format’, ‘Enable LBA (Fat 16x)’ and finally give the drive a name under ‘Drive Label’. Plug in the USB flash drive and make sure you choose the following (see image below) before clicking the start button. Once the package has been extracted, go to the folder ‘C:komkuPeToUSB’ using Windows Explorer. The executable file will extract the necessary utilities to a folder called ‘C:komku’.
Step 1: Download and install ‘Komku’ĭownload the software ‘Komku-SP-usb.exe’ and execute it. Here is the procedure to make the USB Flash Drive ready i.e., to make it bootable.