Saturday, March 24, 2018

Use PowerShell to Create a Bootable USB Drive

Use PowerShell to Create a Bootable USB Drive: $Results = Get-Disk | Where-Object BusType -eq USB | Out-GridView -Title 'Select USB Drive to Format' -OutputMode Single | Clear-Disk -RemoveData -RemoveOEM -Confirm:$false -PassThru | New-Partition -UseMaximumSize -IsActive -AssignDriveLetter | Format-Volume -FileSystem FAT32 $Volumes = (Get-Volume).Where({$_.DriveLetter}).DriveLetter Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath C:\ISO\Windows.ISO $ISO = (Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $Volumes -DifferenceObject (Get-Volume).Where({$_.DriveLetter}).DriveLetter).InputObject Set-Location -Path "$($ISO):\boot" bootsect.exe /nt60 "$($Results.DriveLetter):" Copy-Item -Path "$($ISO):\*" -Destination "$($Results.DriveLetter):" -Recurse -Verbose

Rufus and Windows 11 Upgrade

Once the Rufus drive is created, there is no need to boot from the drive to upgrade. Navigate to the Rufus drive and run setup.exe For a cle...