How to Easily Make USB Bootable Windows Drive/Linux USB Drive

Bootable USB drives are helpful to install Windows/Linux/Ubuntu on your desktop or laptop. Make USB bootable drive is very easy.

When USB Bootable device is required:

If you have a laptop or desktop computer which is not containing a CD/DVD ROM on it. Without CD/DVD drive you can’t install an operating system on a computer. Actually notebook computers don’t have a CD/DVD drive. So the computers which is not having CD/DVD drives are required USB bootable devices.

For quick installation of an operating system also required USB bootable device. This is like a handy tool of operating system.

How to Make USB Bootable Device:

While making a USB device bootable first you need some USB bootable tools which makes our work easier and accurate. So first you have to download USB bootable tools. In this article I would like to explain “Rufus” USB bootable software.

Follow Below Steps:

Download:

1. Download “Rufus” USB to bootable device converter software from the below link. - Download

2. Open the downloaded tool and it automatically detects your USB drive if plugged.

Configuration:

3. In the “Rufus” tool select your USB device and next select Partition and Target system type as GPT for UEFI option.

4. Make File System as FAT32 or FAT(Default) because USB devices have FAT file system as by default

5. Make Cluster size as default.

6. New Volume Label is used to give name for the bootable USB device. Better give some meaningful names like Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux bootable etc. This will help you to easily identify the USB device what it contains.

7. In format options check quick format, create a bootable disk using and next create extended label and icon files.

8. Next the important step is selecting the ISO image file of the operating system. For that select ISO image from the dropdown and next click on browse button which is next to the dropdown menu.

9. After selecting all the necessary option it’s time to start the process. For this just click on start button.

This is the process to make a USB device bootable.

Other Tools to Create USB Bootable Device (Both Windows /Linux):

1. Windows 7 USB/DVD tool  -- Download 

2. Windows Bootable Image Creator -- Download

3. UNetbootin  -- Download

4. Universal USB Installer – Linux -- Download

5. ISO to USB  -- Download

If you know any other efficient USB bootable software tools, then comment it below..Thank you..