HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE

WHAT IS A BOOTABLE DEVICE ;

    A boot device is any piece of hardware containing the files required for a computer to start

Typically a cd. For many purposes like installing a new operating system or repairing the os or live booting an operating system. But CDs are not convenient. Making a usb drive bootable make it very convenient as well as useful . in this article we wil see how to make usb pendrive into a bootable device

MAKING A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE [Windows]

MAKING BOOTABLE WINDOWS USB PENDRIVE

    Making a bootable windows pendrive is very easy, it doesn’t even require any additional software other than a iso disk mounter .

STEP 1; insert the pendrive in to the computer [AT LEAST 4GB]

STEP 2;format the usb drive to exFat format

STEP 3;Download the windows iso file from the microsoft

STEP 4;mount the iso file using an iso mounting software

STEP 5;Just copy all the contents from the iso into your formatted usb pendrive

MAKING BOOTABLE PENDRIVE OF LINUX OR WINDOWS USING RUFUS;

Rufus is an amazing simple to use utility for creating bootable pendrive for any operating system.

STEP 1; Download rufus from the website

STEP 2; Install it and open the rufus

STEP 3: Insert the usb drive

STEP 4; Select the inserted usb drive [it will automatically select the inserted usb drive]

STEP 5; Select the iso image of the operating system it can be linux iso or windows iso

STEP 6; select the required drive type weather it is for BIOS or UEFI

STEP 7; click start wait until the process is finished

MAKING A BOOTABLE PENDRIVE [LINUX/MACOS]

    Rusfus is not available in other operating system but fortunately there any many other utilities that do the same thing on other operating system. In this article be will be using etcher

Disclaimer etcher cannot create a bootable windows pendrive ,so you need to use the iso mounting and coping method mentioned in the start of the article

  STEP 1; Download the etcher form their website

STEP 2: Install it and open the software

STEP 3; First select the usb drive you need to make it as bootable

STEP 4; Then select the iso image of your choose [not windows iso]

STEP 5; Then just flash wait until the process is completed

If you want to know more about linux and wanted to try out linux distros check out the article about linux