How to Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows.

Create Bootable USB with Rufus. If you want to make a fresh install on your laptop or notebook you must need a CD or DVD contains the operating system. For example, you want to install a Windows OS on your laptop. The problem is, not all laptops or netbooks come with CD / DVD drives. Or, the CD / DVD drive is damaged and can't read all CD / DVD contents. Therefore you can use this method to solve your problem. The following guide will show you how to create a bootable USB flash to install Windows OS using Rufus.

By using Rufus you can format and create a bootable USB flash drives, this USB used as installation media from bootable's ISOs, for example, Windows ISO, Linux ISO, etc. Moreover, by using Rufus you can work on computer systems that don't have an operating system installed on it. Yes. we highly recommend using Rufus to create a bootable CD/DVD because this is a small utility that has a complete feature to help you fix your problem.
Below, you can learn step by step how to create a bootable USB flash drive and make installation media.

Create a Bootable Flash drive With Rufus.

1. First, you need to download Rufus from the official website.

Rufus

2. Once it completely downloaded, now install Rufus on your computer.
3. Now, plug USB flash drive into the USB port.
4. Then launch this program to open it.
5. If you have more than USB flash drive attached to the USB port, you can select it under Device menu.
6. Under file system, you can select FAT32 as default file system.
7. You can type anything as volume label under new volume label.
8. Under format option, select the following checklist;
• Leave check device for bad sector.
• Give tick at quick format
• Make sure to give tick at create a bootable disk using, and then select ISO Image to select ISO from your computer.
• Give tick at create extended label and icon files.
• When ready, you can click the start button. and you will see a pop-up window as a warning, just click OK on this windows.
9. Just wait for a process to finish.
10. Once all process finished, now you can eject USB flash drive to save remove from the computer.

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