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Prepare the USB Stick

Prior to burning the BMR ISO image onto a USB stick, you must prepare the stick. To create a bootable USB BMR stick, the stick must be made active to enable it to boot a system. You can use the DiskPart command to make the stick active.

Important! If the USB stick needs to be formatted, this process will erase all data currently stored on your USB stick. Verify that there is nothing important on this stick prior to performing this process. If the USB stick was previously formatted, this process will overwrite any files with the same name.

Follow these steps:

1. Open a command prompt (with administrative rights if required by your OS).
2. Type Diskpart and press Enter.
3. Type List Disk and press Enter.

   A listing of all detected disks is displayed. Determine which of the displayed disks is your USB disk.

4. Select the USB disk by typing Select Disk <n> ("n" is the disk number for the USB disk), and press Enter.
5. Type Clean and press Enter.

   The system will display "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk."

6. Type create partition primary and press Enter.

   The system will display "succeeded in creating the specified partition".

7. Type select partition 1 and press Enter.

   The system will display "Partition 1 is now the selected partition."

8. Type active and press Enter.

   The system will display "DiskPart marked the current partition as active."

9. If necessary, format the USB stick with FAT32 or NTFS file system.

   Type format fs=fat32 quick or format fs=ntfs quick

The USB stick is now prepared and ready for use.