Format the thumb drive
- Format the thumb drive as Fat32
Setup the thumb drive
Open run command (Start Menu > Run), type diskpart, and hit OK. Then type the following in sequence:
- list disk (take note of the serial ### for the thumb drive)
- select disk 2 (assuming disk 2 is the thumb drive)
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=fat32 (if you don’t do this step, you won’t be able to copy any files to the thumb drive)
- assign
- exit
Copy Microsoft Windows Setup files to thumb drive
Now, open a new command window (Start Menu > Run > cmd), type the following, and hit Enter.
- xcopy F:*.* /s/e/f G: (assumes your source dvd is F: and your thumb drive is G: