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Tagged with bootable-media rufus
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What are my options for installing Windows (10/11) on an external m.2 ssd, to later be used on an internal one, and is using windows to go okay?
My friend's birthday is coming up, me and some mutual friends are planning on building him a computer. I have been given the SSD and have been tasked with preparing it so it's ready to go asap (we are ...
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Cant boot from ubuntu install media
I have a Surface Pro 7, currently running Windows 11 and want to install Ubuntu as a second OS. I can not get the install media, which I created using rufus on Windows 11, to boot. With the same ...
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Rufus “Windows To Go” fails to boot and shows errors [closed]
I made tiny11 installation on my Kingston 64GB USB flash drive.
It was working for few days, but now sometimes it fails to boot and when it boots running programs I'm getting missing DLL errors.
Is my ...
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Rufus doesn't support HDAT2
I want to install HDAT2 and create a bootable pendrive using Rufus. However, I always receive a message saying: 'This ISO image is either not bootable, or uses a compression or boot method not ...
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How to burn a .bin image to a USB flash drive in Windows 7?
I’m running Windows 7 and have a .bin file that I need to burn to a USB flash drive. It’s the Chromebook recovery image for my HP Chromebook 14-q063cl.
So, as far as i know, the dd command isn't ...
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Get menu.c32 error when installing esxi
When booting esxi on USB via rufus, I get a menu.c32 error, as far as I know, to fix this error, you have to select the yes option.
But after this, I will encounter connection errors and failed ...
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Clarification on using Rufus to create a bootable live FreeDOS USB drive
I am attempting to use Rufus to make a USB flash drive bootable. However, try as I might, my system refuses to boot from it, although it once did (see below). I have made sure legacy boot mode is ...
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How do I make a bootable USB flash drive from a floppy disk image, and still make use of the full 32 GB?
When I format the flash drive with a image of MS-DOS and Windows 1.01, which is 1.44 MB, in Rufus 2.18 portable, the USB drive shows as 1.44 MB to match the floppy disk image. I am planning to add ...
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Rufus rendered USB inoperable?
I just used Rufus 3.13.1730(Portable) to make a Windows 10 bootable USB for my secondary machine. I unfortunately didn't realize I had selected the wrong format (I think UEFI is the acronym?). When ...
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Creating bootable usb of windows
I've been trying to create a bootable usb of windows 7 setup to do a clean installation on my laptop.I have a 32 GB Sandisk USB (3.0) and my hard drive is GPT. At first, I used Rufus in MBR partition ...
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windows 10 install usb stick that runs on Uefi and Bios systems
I know how to create a usb install stick with Rufus that works on either Uefi/GPT or on Bios/MFT Systems.
But is there any way to create a Stick that supports both flavors at the same time?
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How can I create a multiboot USB drive? i.e. one USB stick that can be booted to Windows, Linux, diagnostic tools, etc
I'm aware this can't be done with Rufus, and I've tried YUMI to no avail.
I use several diagnostic tools on a regular basis (Hiren's Windows Boot CD, Lenovo utilities and a lightweight Linux OS) and ...
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Rufus 3.8 creating windows 7 iso [closed]
I am using rufus 3.8.1580 to create a windows 7 64 bit iso on a 16 gb flash drive. Do I go with the automatically selected options of rufus got and uefi (non csm) ETFs file type. Or do I change it to ...
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How to use rufus to create bootable usb(Sony 16GB) for WIndows 10 iso file(Win10_1909_English_x64.iso of 5.04GB size)?
Downloaded file Win10_1909_English_x64.iso
Size of downloaded file - 5.04GB
USB - Sony 16GB USB 2.0 (14.4GB available space)
Downloaded Rufus 3.8.1580
Using diskpart and typing list disk shows there ...
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USB 3 stick very slow after creating a bootable usb with Rufus
I created a bootable windows 10 usb with Rufus and when I didn't need windows on the usb anymore I reformated it back to defaults so I can use it as a normal usb like before, but now when copying ...
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Create bootable usb with rufus on a pc with Bitlocker enabled
I want to create a w10 bootable usb from a pc with bitlocker enabled.
Everytime I plug an usb drive pc asks me if I want to encrypt the drive etc.
When I have tried to create a bootable I receive the ...
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Rufus Damaged my Pendrive
I was using Rufus (on Windows 10, Laptop) to create a bootable Windows 7 USB installer. Then bootable process has been completed successfully. But when I tried to boot it on another PC (Desktop) it ...
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Bootable External Hard Drive Windows 10 while have Files
It is possible my external hard drive to become bootable windows 10 while it have files like videos, music, document?
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Rufus can't see my Kali .ISO
I have an Iso file on my desktop. I go to select this in Rufus to make a bootable drive and it doesn't see it's existence. It saw this very iso when it was in my D USB drive but I had to move it ...
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Alternative to Rufus for Windows Vista [closed]
Are there any alternative to Rufus which would work on Windows Vista? I need to make a Windows 8.1 bootable UEFI USB and a Windows 10 bootable UEFI USB.
Thanks!
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Windows 10 Won't recognise My bootable USB
I recently created a bootable flash drive with Rufus to install Win 7 on a separate computer. It worked perfectly. However, when I put the same drive back into my laptop with Win 10 the system won't ...
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Create bootable SD card with Rufus
When create bootable SD card with Rufus utility, should be always selected formatting card (by checking "Quick format" box), or it's possible write linux OS image (.img) without formatting SD card? ...
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What version of MS-DOS does Rufus use to make bootable USBs?
Rufus allows for the creation of a bootable MS-DOS flash drive. It does this out of the box as an option without needing to specify an image or ISO.
However, documentation on the tool is virtually ...
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How do I create a bootable flash drive running MS-DOS 6.22?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB for MS-DOS 6.22. I can't risk using FreeDOS or any other version of DOS because I'm working with a very niche utility that has the potential to break expensive ...
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Unable to create bootable USB to mount kali linux iso image?
I want to dual boot kali linux. I'm mounting kali linux.iso to create a bootable USB with the help of Rufus. Rufus shows the following errors when i start the process.
It asks for download some file ...
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USB Format Failed
I am trying to create a Windows 7 USB boot drive out of a USB stick. It is 1TB and comes up as General UDisk USB Device in my device manager. I am using Rufus 2.10.973. Once I press start, the format ...
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