How do I burn an ISO image to USB and make it bootable?

MeganHarris 

I actually have an experience to share. I was burning an ISO to USB to reinstall an operating system. Since I heard that diskpart gives more control, I decided to give this command line tool a try.

Before you start, make sure you back up all important files on the USB, because diskpart will erase all data. Then, follow these steps:

Open the command prompt: Run as administrator, you can type "cmd" in the search bar, then right-click and select "Run as administrator".

1. Launch diskpart: Type diskpart in the command prompt window and press enter.
2. List the disk: Type list disk in the diskpart prompt and find the number of my USB device in the list.
3. Select the target disk: Type select disk # (where # is the number of the USB disk).
4. Erase the USB: Type clean, which will delete all partition information on the USB.
5. Create a partition: Type create partition primary to create a new primary partition.
6. Select the partition: Type select partition 1.
7. Format: Enter format fs=ntfs quick to select NTFS file system for quick formatting.
8. Activate partition: Enter active to make the partition bootable.
9. Exit: Enter exit to exit diskpart.

After completing these steps, you need to manually extract the contents of the ISO file to the USB drive. I did this manually using a file browser, as diskpart doesn't handle file copying.

More infor about diskpart: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/diskpart

Although the process was a bit complicated and I was quite nervous (I was afraid of selecting the wrong disk), I was able to successfully burn ISO to USB on Windows 10.