Unetbootin will create bootable USB drives with persistence for Ubuntu-based distros. Otherwise, with a big enough drive you could just do a normal install to it.
Media Creation Tool requires internet access, so you can't just flash a Windows .iso that you have independently downloaded from microsoft.com. Of course, you can always prepare the correct disklabel yourself, use a BOOTSECT.EXE incantation to make the USB bootable, then copy all the files, etc, but this really should be easier than that.
Make Windows 10 Creator Bootable USB/Pendrive from ISO Using Windows USB/DVD Tool
Download Windows USB/DVD Tool:
http://wudt.codeplex.com/
Download Windows 10 Creator:
http://bit.ly/2u5swor
Note: 4GB or larger Pendrive Needed to be formated before starting to make bootable
Task Process:
Install Windows USB/DVD Tool
Open Windows USB/DVD Tool
Select Windows 10 Creator ISO
Select your USB
Click on Begin Copying
Then click on Yes
Wait for a few moment
And finally click on Start Over
You are done. Now you will be able to start boot up your Computer.
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Basically what I did previously was use Distroshare to create an iso, which could then be burned to USB using Unetbootin. Unetbootin did its own magic, but it worked.
Now I have a two partition USB-stick, one with /boot & /EFI, the other holding the e.g. ubuntu-16 iso. The default one from Canonical boots just fine, but not my custom version.
I did it that way because I thought it'd be handy. If you could give pointers on how to create a live USB image, I'd greatly appreciate it ;).
Also, it's all Ubuntu (16.04 & 14.04).
> if the disk creator could also create non-ubuntu isos. For me it would only create Ubuntu disks. Also if I try unetbootin it usually doesn't work. I'd either save/have a Linux Mint just for this purpose or use Rufus/YUMI in Windows.
gnome-multiwriter works for just about every iso I've tried it with. It's in the repos for most distros I've used
I never used Rufus but I prepared USB sticks few times. Here're my observations:
1. Every computer I've used supports NTFS in its UEFI. I even thought it was standard. So simplest way to create a bootable USB stick: format it with GPT, create one big enough NTFS partition and copy ISO contents inside. That's it.
2. Converting install.wim to sub-4GB chunks is trivial one command. Create one big FAT32 partition, copy all but install.wim, convert install.wim with `dism` and copy it.
That's it. Much easier and faster than using some tool doing strange things with shim loaders and whatnot.
Linux sticks could be created exactly the same way. UEFI is awesome.
Hypothetically, a device that allowed you to throw a bunch of isos on a flash drive, and automatically threw up a grub-like chooser would be really nice. Yes, I can write a disk to a USB stick, but it starts to be a little clunky since you need a partition for each iso.
Ideally I want all of my install disks on one drive, since I never know if I need Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows XP, 64 bit, 32 bit, etc. I'm tired of juggling physical media and isos.
Software / tools to create bootable Windows or Linux from USB flash drive to boot from USB. Tools will help you to make USB drive a bootable drive and install and try new operating systems.
If you were supposed to use NTFS that's what the Media Creation tool would do. Instead it uses FAT32 and an image with superior compression (ESD). This is because FAT32 is the only required format for UEFI implementations to boot from.
Some advanced tools, and I'd recommend looking at Ventoy over Rufus, use an intermediate loader to mitigate that. Others just let you assume the board supports NTFS boot.
While this works, I find this method a bit tedious to use, at least compared to Ventoy [0].
Ventoy allows you to create a bootable USB containing any number of ISO files just by writing to a partition. It even supports Windows, and has some cool features like overriding Secure Boot on some machines.
I think Ventoy is the way to make a bootable usb stick in 2023. If anyone would ask me.
You run the tool once to setup a usb disk. Throws ISOs into the partition it created. And it's done.
And from this point, you don't need any tool to update image on your bootable usb stick(whatever it is linux, windows, gdisk or whatever tool iso). All you need to do is open the drive and throws ISOs in or delete whatever you don't like.
Edit: it seems it is also capable to boot into a VHD disk image.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#4-...
Fedora recommends using Fedora Media Writer, and other tools like Unetbootin are very popular.
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