{"id":167,"date":"2013-08-21T04:04:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T04:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:10:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:10:22","slug":"creating-a-bootable-usb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/creating-a-bootable-usb\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Bootable USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is often helpful to have a bootable USB stick that you can use to boot into various scripts and utilities at a moment&#8217;s notice. With a bootable USB, you can do things like install Windows, partition disks, scan systems for viruses and more.<\/p>\n<p>EasyBCD makes the creation of such a bootable drive a single click away. This option can be found on the &#8220;BCD Deployment&#8221; page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4756\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4756\" class=\"wp-image-4756 size-full colorbox-167\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?resize=583%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EasyBCD BCD deployment screen\" width=\"583\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?resize=60%2C50&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-deployment-screen.png?resize=150%2C126&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EasyBCD BCD deployment screen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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 &#8220;Install BCD&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Yes&#8221; will result in EasyBCD loading the external device&#8217;s bootloader data for editing, allowing you to add entries to the boot menu. If you select &#8220;No,&#8221; you&#8217;ll need to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/editing-external-bcd\/\">load the external BCD yourself<\/a>\u00a0at a later date to add entries to the USB&#8217;s boot menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often helpful to have a bootable USB stick that you can use to boot into various scripts and utilities at a moment&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3SlTq-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/4821"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}