How to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista?

Here are the steps..

1. Open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select "Run as administrator" option.
2. type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter
3. to see which drive to set (our usb drive) type list volume
4. select the number of the usb drive by typing the ff. ex: select volume 4
5. Now we have to make this drive active. So type active
6. now type exit to exit the diskpart program
7. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We'll use "bootsect.exe" utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It'll be present in "Boot" directory.
8. Issue this command after finding it... bootsect /nt60 G: (note: Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.)
9. Copy all the files in the Vista DVD installer
10. If it works now you have a diskless installer!

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