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Creating a bootable USB when you only have the contents of the ISO
Hi there
It's possible you might have the contents of the ISO but not the actual ISO image itself on HDD.
It's still possible to create a bootable USB using purely MANUAL commands
for this example assume Disk nr is 7 and the USB stick is on drive H. The files from the ISO are in say folder WINDVD on drive E
here's what to do.
1) open CMD as administrator
2) DISKPART
3) LIST DISK
4) SELECT DISK 7 (remember our example above)
5) CLEAN
6) CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
7) ACTIVE
8) FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK
9) EXIT (don't close the cmd prompt though)
10) CD E:\WINDVD\BOOT (again from example contents of ISO are on drive E)
11) BOOTSECT /NT60 H:
12) After 11) finishes - takes 1 sec approx. copy the entire contents of directory WINDVD to the USB stick as is - copy contents in same folder layout as on the disk - don't have WINDVD as the high level - copy CONTENTS so ist folder on USB stick will be BOOT.
13) now you've got a bootable USB.
I know things like RUFUS make this automatically but if you've only got the extracted contents and don't want to download the whole iso again this should help.
Cheers
jimbo
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