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Nischal
Nischal

Reputation: 1

Using Powershell to make USB Bootable Drive

I am trying to automate someone taking a ISO and making that into a bootable USB. I need help with that last command in the script which is xcopy. How can I copy all the files from the user imputed $ISO to the USB drive X:? I am having issues using "$ISO" and ":" in a path. The last command needs work cause currently it errors out. 

Write-Host "Please mount your ISO and insert your USB stick"
$ISO = Read-Host -Prompt 'Please enter your mounted ISO drive letter'
Write-Host "Your mounted drive letter is seleted as $ISO"
Get-Disk
$USBDisk = Read-Host -Prompt 'Please enter your USB Disk Number from above'
Get-Disk $USBDisk | Clear-Disk -RemoveData
New-Partition -DiskNumber $USBDisk -Size 30000 MB -IsActive -DriveLetter X | Format-Volume -FileSystem FAT32 -NewFileSystemLabel Win10
xcopy $ISO:\* X:\ /S

Upvotes: 0

Views: 812

Answers (1)

Bacon Bits
Bacon Bits

Reputation: 32170

Try:

xcopy ${ISO}:\* X:\ /S

This is an alternate method of referencing a variable and is useful when you need a trailing colon and don't want to confuse the parser with looking for a variable namespace.

Upvotes: 1

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