ALL MOBILE DRIVERS: How-To

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNjtwXvNZ1S3A3YH88_qSHG0d0m6R7vEGNSbhDanrVBJqDBgfkvgak8ikcd1sbChkVRfvUvpCR8bPvQhN1kvZ7k9oh9qbt7QtRBDp0ZybJNUDGorPEbR8q_Vn7Vr_ILxoNrFom32QcYJF/s1600/win8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNjtwXvNZ1S3A3YH88_qSHG0d0m6R7vEGNSbhDanrVBJqDBgfkvgak8ikcd1sbChkVRfvUvpCR8bPvQhN1kvZ7k9oh9qbt7QtRBDp0ZybJNUDGorPEbR8q_Vn7Vr_ILxoNrFom32QcYJF/s400/win8.png" width="400" /></a></div>Now that Windows 8 has hit the RTM stage and Microsoft published the final bits on TechNet and MSDN today, lots of people will be getting it from different places and begin installing it on their computers. The most used way of installing a operative system today is from USB drives instead of optical media. The most important reason to this is, among others, the speed of installation and how easy it is to maintain your source files up to date. You can save yourself some time by installing from USB. This article will cover the process of preparing your USB so you can install Windows 7/8 from it.The result will be a USB drive that can be used to install Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. <h4>Preparing the drive</h4>Open a command-prompt window. You can do this by typing CMD in the Start Menu and pressing Enter afterwards. I use a program called PowerCmd for all my command-line needs, but you can use Windows built-in utility. Diskpart is a command-line utility already built-in into Windows that allows you do many things with your hard disk and other drives. You can delete/create partitions, format disks, assign drive letter and more. Type diskpart and the utility will start right away. The list disk command will list all available disks in your system. In my case, the USB drive is listed as number 5. <a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart1.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-340" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart1-300x239.png" title="diskpart1" width="300" /></a> <div class="dt-message dt-message-notice">Make sure you select the correct drive number! You can delete important data by mistake.</div><ul><li>Select the correct drive. Type select disk X, where X is your USB drive.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart2.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-341" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart2-300x239.png" title="diskpart2" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Delete all existing partitions on your drive. Type clean.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart3.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-342" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart3-300x239.png" title="diskpart3" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Create a new primary partition. Type create partition primary.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart4.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-343" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart4-300x239.png" title="diskpart4" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Select the new partition to work with. Type select partition 1.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart5.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-344" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart5-300x239.png" title="diskpart5" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Mark the partition as active (bootable). Type active.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart6.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-345" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart6-300x239.png" title="diskpart6" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Format the partition as NTFS. Type format fs=ntfs quick label=�Win8?.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart7.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-346" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart7-300x239.png" title="diskpart7" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Assign a drive letter to your drive. Type assign.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart8.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-347" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart8-300x239.png" title="diskpart8" width="300" /></a> <ul><li>Exit Diskpart. Type exit.</li></ul><a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart9.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-348" height="239" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart9-300x239.png" title="diskpart9" width="300" /></a> That�s it. The drive is already formatted and marked as active so you can boot from it. <h4>Copying the instalaltion files</h4>To install Windows from you freshly prepared drive, you need to copy all the contents of the DVD disc or ISO image to your drive. Do it by selecting all files and copy them to the root of your USB drive. <a href="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart101.png" rel="modal-window"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-352" height="152" src="http://www.ajuaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/diskpart101-300x152.png" title="diskpart10" width="300" /></a> Now you can go and boot from the USB drive to install Windows. <h4>Diskpart commands list</h4>Here are the commands we used in this tutorial. This list can help you as a quick reference. <pre>DISKPART> diskpart DISKPART> list disk DISKPART> select disk X DISKPART> clean DISKPART> create partition primary DISKPART> select partition 1 DISKPART> active DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick label="Win8" DISKPART> assign DISKPART> exit</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Thanks to Ajus for this excellent post </pre>

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