It is often helpful to have a bootable USB stick that you can use to boot into various scripts and utilities at a moment’s notice. With a bootable USB, you can do things like install Windows, partition disks, scan systems for viruses and more.

EasyBCD makes the creation of such a bootable drive a single click away. This option can be found on the “BCD Deployment” page:

EasyBCD BCD deployment screen

EasyBCD BCD deployment screen

From the drop-down menu in the top-half of the screen, select the partition that represents the USB stick or external device you wich to make bootable, then press the “Install BCD” button.

When the operation has completed, you will be presented with a dialog box asking if you want to load the newly-created BCD store into EasyBCD. Selecting “Yes” will result in EasyBCD loading the external device’s bootloader data for editing, allowing you to add entries to the boot menu. If you select “No,” you’ll need to load the external BCD yourself at a later date to add entries to the USB’s boot menu.