Monday, January 16, 2012

Best 10 Methods To Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive [Windows, Linux]


So, ever wanted to make a bootable USB Drive with your favorite Windows, Linux, or whatever bootable ISO disk?
Well, here is a large list of some software that can create a USB for you. That USB can contain a windows installation disk, a Linux CD ( could be a live version as well ), Ultimate boot CDHiren’s Boot CD, Antivirus Rescue CD, Recovery software live CD, Disk partitioning software and a lot more.

Create Windows Bootable USB

1 - WinToFlash :

As you can see from the above screenshot, it’s the easiest software you can use to create a bootable windows. It can create a bootable version of windows xp/2003 , winPE XP/2003 , Windows vista/2008/7/8setup to USB drive, and some more…. .

Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool is created by Microsoft itself to make it easier to create a bootable USB drive or burn windows 7 Iso file to a DVD.

A Bootable USB is a little app made to let you install windows vista/2008/7  from a USB drive

Seems to have the same name as the above one.But it’s got a few more options and it works for x64 versions of windows as well.

A simple and easy to use app to make a bootable windows vista/7 USB drive. Required .NetFramework 4.

6 - OStoGO :

A small app made to put your windows vista/7 DVD into a USB drive.

7 – RMPrepUSB :

An advanced tool to create bootable windows USB. Should be used with care


8 -  WinSetupFromUSB :

A good app that should be used with care that can let you create a bootable windows or Linux.Allows you to test in QEMU

9-  FlashBoot :

A nice software that can put Windows XP/Vista/7 on a USB flash drive.Worth about $38 USD.

Create MultiBootable USB

YUMI can be used to create a MultiBootable USB drive with multiple Operating Systems, Antivirus Utilities, Recovery tools…… and more. Uses Syslinux. One other really nice feature with it is that it can download the ISO file for you before using it on USB drive.

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