Notebooks or laptops today that are thin shaped or sized, many are designed to have no internal optical drive or CD / DVD drive, because of the slim form or reason so there is no CD / DVD drive.
To read or open CD / DVD use external CD / DVD drive.
If you do not have it then the file must be moved first to the flash or external hard drive using laptop / other computers that have CD / DVD drivenya, then flash / external disk read by the computer / laptop that does not have CD / DVD drive.
In this post how to move the Windows 8 installer from DVD or from ISO file to flash or in other words how to make installer Windows 8 in flashdisk so that it can be used for booting and installing Windows 8 on computer or laptop that do not have CD / DVD drive or because CD / DVD drivenye broken.
Prepare Flashdisk with 8GB capacity. Flashdisk with 4GB capacity is not enough to accommodate the Windows 8.1 installer file. While the flash with size 16GB and above can be used but requires a longer format process, because the formating process using full format.
Once the Windows 8 installer DVD is ready and the flash is plugged into one of the USB ports, then you can start the process of creating a bootable Flashdisk that contains the Windows 8 / 8.1 installer
Open Command Prompt as Administrator (for Windows 8, from the Metro screen / Metro UI / menu display that colored boxes, type command then the Command prompt will appear, right click on the command prompt then choose Run as Administrator ).
After the Command Prompt window opens do / write commands in the following order:
1. Type the diskpart command and then press Enter. For an example can be seen in the capture results on my computer, click on the image to enlarge.
DISKPART> list disk
will appear all the disks that are connected to the computer, then you note what disk number for Flashdisk, on my flash example is disk 1
3. Select disk for Flashdisk in example is disk 1 then type: select disk 1 then press enter
DISKPART> select disk 1
there will be disc 1 description selected
4. Then type: clean , press enter,
DISKPART> clean
there will be a description of DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk
5. Next command, type: create partition primary , press enter
DISKPART> create partition primary
will have description Diskpart succeeded in creating the specified partition
6. Next type: select partition 1 , press enter
DISKPART> select partition 1
will appear description Partition 1 is now the selected partition
7. Then type: active , press enter
DISKPART> active
there will be a description of Diskpart marked the current partition as active
8. The next command is format, type: format FS = NTFS then press Enter.
DISKPART> format FS = NTFS
The process of this format will take a while because it is a full format instead of a quick format
the format process is successfully marked with 100 percent completed and
Diskpart successfully formated the volume
9. After the formatting process is complete the next command is assign followed by Enter
DISKPART> assign
there will be a description of Diskpart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point
10. Type exit then press Enter to exit diskpart.
DISKPART> exit
The next step is to make the flash to bootable, the tool is in the Windows installer in the boot folder
11. Open window / file explorer to view DVD The Windows installer is on which drive, in the example DVD is on drive G. and see also the drive letter for flash, in the example drive for my flash is drive H.
Reopen Command Prompt, go to the DVD drive, in the example because it is on drive G then I type: G: then press Enter
> G:
12. Once the cursor is in drive G into the boot directory by typing the boot cd , hit enter
G: \> cd boot
13. Then type bootsect / nt60 h: (h here is the flash drive, adjust your flash drive)
G: \ boot> bootsect / nt60 h:
Successfully updated Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode
Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes
The next step is to copy all the files on DVD to flash, still using the Command prompt
14. Use the xcopy command, pay attention to the DVD and Flashdisk drives do not get mixed up, the command is to type xcopy g : \ *. * H : \ / e / f / h then press enter, red character g = DVD, h = flashdisk, adjust it with the drive letter on your computer (last h is not h for drive letter)
G: \ boot> xcopy g: \ *. * H: \ / e / f / h
The copy process will run a bit longer because the size is almost 4GB.
If the copy process is complete then the flash can be used for booting and installation of Windows 8.
Do not forget the target computer to install Windows using this installer flash, boot order on the BIOS must be set USB stick in the first place.
To enter the boot order settings note when the laptop is turned on the screen there will be a momentary display to press the hotkey into the Bios menu, boot order, etc. before loading the OS.
