Create a Bootable USB Media with MDT

Create Bootable USB – Create a bootable USB drive for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to deploy operating systems.

Useful external reference: Microsoft Learn.

Create Bootable USB Overview

Step 1: Preparing the USB Drive

1. Insert the USB drive into a USB port on your computer.
2. Open Command Prompt as an administrator and use diskpart to format the USB drive.

diskpart
list disk
select disk X # Replace X with your USB drive number
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 quick
active
assign

Create Bootable USB –

Useful external reference: Microsoft Learn.

Step 2: Configuring MDT

• Open the MDT console and navigate to your Deployment Share.
• Right-click on “Advanced Configuration” and choose “Media.”

• Click on “New Media” and follow the wizard’s instructions.

• Then modify the files to include the same variables as those present in your deploymentshare
  • Boostrap.ini
  • CustomSetting.ini

Create Bootable USB – Warning: do not set the variable DeployRoot

Useful external reference: Microsoft Learn.

Step 3: Generating the Media

• Once the configuration is complete, right-click on the media you just created and choose “Update Media Content.”

• Wait for the process to complete.

Step 4: Copying Files to the USB Drive

1. Navigate to the Content folder in the directory of the media you created.
2. Copy all the files and paste them onto the USB drive.