(replacing X with your BOOT drive letter and # your Disk number),Īnd then press Enter.
CMD CREATE BOOT USB ISO INSTALL
To install Grub2 for BIOS and UEFI type or copy/paste the following, Next to change to the grub directory, type or copy/paste the following cd %UserProfile%\Desktop\grubģ. Once finished, you should have a grub folder containing the contents on your desktop.Ģ. gz, and then extract the contents of the. Download Grub2 from A1ive’s repository, and extract (using 7Zip) its contents to your Windows desktop. Installing Grub2 for UEFI and BIOS on the USB driveġ. IMPORTANT: note which drive letter was assigned to your fat32 BOOT partition. Then, to verify the created partitions and volumes, type list par list vol Next to create and format the second partition as fat32, type cre par pri format fs=fat32 label=BOOT quick assignĩ. Now to prepare the first exFAT partition, type the following cre par pri shrink minimum=50 format fs=exfat label=USB quickĨ. Next to list the disk info so we can set size in the next step, type list diskĪnd then note the size of your select * Disk in MB.ħ. Then to wipe the disk, ( WARNING: all existing content will be deleted) type the following one line at a time clean convert mbrĦ. To select the disk, type the following replacing # with your USB disk number. Back at the command prompt, type diskpart diskpartĤ. Note which Disk and drive letter belong to your USB.ģ. Type the following and press enter to launch Disk Management Tool. To get started, Open a Command Prompt as admin.ġ.) From the Windows ‘⌕ Type here to search’ box, type cmd.exeĢ. Creating exFAT and fat32 Partitions on the USB driveġ. Make a Grub2 exFAT bootable USB Flash Drive from Windows I.
Simply toggle to switch to the exFAT Bootable USB method you prefer to use.
CMD CREATE BOOT USB ISO HOW TO
How to make an exFAT Bootable USB Flash DriveĬovered below are both the Windows and Linux methods to make a USB boot from exFAT.
CMD CREATE BOOT USB ISO DRIVER
On Linux systems, in order to exFAT format the first partition, the exFAT filesystem driver and utilities must be installed. However Windows 11, 10, 8 should work fine. The process will fail to make the second partition. The Diskpart version packaged with Windows 7 and lower (Vista, XP, etc.) is not able to create multiple partitions on removable USB media. Secure Boot is also not supported via this method. As Fat32 does not support storing file sizes beyond 4GB.Ĭaveats: Legacy BIOS booting does not work on a select few finicky CSM booted systems. The advantage of using an exFAT partition over a fat32 filesystem for storing ISOs is that you can store bootable ISO files larger than 4GB, and still UEFI boot from them via the Fat32 partition. Which in turn, makes the fat32 boot partition natively hidden from Windows. Windows will only automatically assign a drive letter to the first partition. Important Notes: The methods outlined below partition the USB drive with one exFAT partition for storing the ISO files and another Fat32 BOOT partition to be used for Grub booting.