Make Bootable USB Drive From Bootable ISO File
Making a bootable USB drive from a bootable ISO image file is as easy as extracting the zip file. Question arise, why you need a bootable USB drive? because, working with USB drives is easy, fast and convenient than CD/DVD disks. Also Netbooks and some of the Notebooks aren’t come with Optical disk drives. So Netbook users mainly depends on USB drives to transfer data to or from other devices or use external optical disk drives which is not as convenient to work with them in outdoors.
Transfer data using USB Drive is well known to every PC user but,
what if you want to install Windows Operating System from USB Drive on
your PC? Here comes Bootable USB Drive. Some people think that making a
bootable USB Drive is Geek’s work, but making a bootable USB Drive is as
easy as extracting the files from zip folder. You don’t need any
technical skills to make a Bootable USB Drive.
The only things you need to make a Bootable USB Drive are:
- 7-Zip File Manager – less than 5mb software program.
- USB Drive – size depends on the bootable ISO image file.
- Bootable ISO Image file – to know how to make ISO image from Bootable CD/DVD visit here.
Steps :
- First of all hook up your USB Drive in you PC and Format it with NTFC as the file system.
- After you install 7-Zip File Manager, run it as administrator. To run a program as administrator just right click on it and select Run as administrator.
- In 7-Zip File Manager navigate to the Bootable ISO image file and select one with which you want to make Bootable USB Drive.
- Now extract it to root of your USB Drive by click on extra button indicated by (-) sign.
After all the files from Bootable ISO image files is extracted to USB Drive, your USB Drive become bootable and ready to boot on your PC.
In the above image Windows 7 Bootable USB Drive is booting in VirtualBox. To know how to Boot from USB Drive in VirtualBox visit here.
To make Bootable USB Drive to work on your PC, you need to Enable USB Boot in BIOS setup.To enable USB Boot on Your PC, restart your PC. At the start when brand logo appears press “F2” key to open BIOS setup. In BIOS setup under BOOT section just Enable USB Boot. You also have to change the Boot Order in the same section to make USB device first Boot. Now save changes and EXIT.
Now when you restart your PC it automatically Boots from Bootable USB drive.
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