How to Create Bootable USB Drives to Install (Almost) Any OS ?
Use Rufus to create bootable USB media If you too are one such user looking for a solution, you can stop looking and try Rufus , an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive from any bootable ISO. Rufus is small in size (nearly 615 KB) and claims to be faster at creating bootable USB drives than most applications of its type. Rufus is also portable which means that you need not install this software to use it. Just double click on the executable file and the application will start working. Rufus also allows you to add fixes to use your bootable flash drives on older computers having BIOSs which do not support booting from them. Strangely however, Rufus can only create bootable flash drives from ISOs meaning you need to have an ISO image of the CD or DVD of the OS of your choice. I do not think this should be too much of a problem considering how easy it is to create ISOs from DVDs and CDs. How to use Rufus? 1) When you start Rufus, the first option that you will see