How do I make a bootable USB flash drive with Windows on it?

This is a pretty simple one, for those of you that have a volume licence subscription or other method of downloading Microsoft .iso files with complete installers on them – this is how to make a bootable USB flash drive from them.

Firstly start an elevated command prompt and type the commands in the following order:

diskpart
list disk
select disk <Your Disk Number>
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
exit

 

It should appear as below

Bootable-USB-flash-drive

Once you have done this simply extract the .iso file to a folder and then copy the contents to the USB flash drive.  The drive will now be bootable with whatever copy of Windows client/server you have put on it.

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