3 ways to make a bootable USB flash drive with Windows
Educational Program Vindovs / / December 19, 2019
Bootable USB flash drive is used to install Windows on a computer. To create such a carrier, it is necessary to record the image of the operating system for any USB-device, which contains more than 4 GB. In the course of the whole is on a flash drive information will be erased.
Method 1: Use the utility Media Creation Tool
This method - the official. He will approach in case you want to install a licensed copy of Windows. But for its activation, you must have the appropriate key. Media Creation Tool utility downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Server license the image and write it to a USB flash drive. As a result, you get a bootable drive.
So, download the tool from the Microsoft Media Creation Tool website, designed to create the installation USB drive with the image you are interested in the OS. For instance, Windows 10 or Windows 8.1.
Launch the utility and select the "Create the installation media." Then check the "Use recommended settings for this computer" if you plan to install Windows on the current computer, or enter the parameters appropriate for the other computer.
Next, select «USB-flash drive," check your drive in the list of available devices and confirm. After that, wait until the file operation.
After a few minutes adjusting the flash drive is ready for use.
For the following measures will need Windows image in ISO format. It can be downloaded, for example, from torrent trackers.
Method 2: without third-party programs
This method is suitable if you want to install Windows on a computer with a relatively new UEFI shell (GUI instead of the old BIOS). The bottom line is this: to clear the contents of the flash drive and copy it to the system image only operating system tools.
Before you can create a bootable USB drive format the drive FAT32 file system. Then open Windows Explorer in the image ISO, select all the internal files and folders, and click on it right mouse button. In the context menu, select "Send" and select the target USB flash drive list.
When the copying objects is completed, the drive is ready for installation.
Method 3: Use the utility UltraISO
This option is suitable for new computers with UEFI, and old with the BIOS.
Download UltraISO with official site. The program is paid, but our problem is enough for a free test version. Simply install the utility, and after the first run, select the "trial period".
In the menu, click "File» → «Open" and select the ISO image. On the top bar, click "Bootstrapping» → «Save the image to your hard disk." In the next window, specify the path to the flash drive in Disk Drive field. Then format the drive with the help of special buttons (select FAT32 file system), and then click "Save."
Waiting for the completion of the recording, you can use a bootable USB flash drive to the destination.
If for some reason, these methods do not work for you, there is one more. You can use the free utility Rufus, of which the subject of a article on Layfhakere. Rufus creates a bootable USB flash drive for old computers, as well as for new ones.
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