To start, USB media is more durable than disc-based media. Discs can be easily scratched, while well-built USB flash drives can generally handle a bit of abuse. Ever walk around with a disc in your pocket? It looks a bit odd. To give an overview of what to expect from each solution, refer to this success table:. For starters, modern UEFI-equipped machines are not designed to support such an old OS, so chances are that it will not even install, or even be detected in the first place.
If the motherboard in question happens to support a legacy BIOS mode, then it might work. Different version of Rufus explained later have better luck with the XP process than others. We strongly suggest you skip to the dedicated part of this article that explains the problems with Windows XP and USB support.
What about Windows Vista? But first…. Some solutions listed on this page require a Windows disc image. ISOs are available from a number of sources, but most people will acquire them after purchasing the OS online through Microsoft, or through some other related Microsoft service.
Only the ISOs directly supplied by Microsoft would have static hashes. How the image was captured as well will have an effect on how the final boot drive turns out, so stick to official sources where possible. Other tools exist that accomplish the same thing, but these are the only ones we can personally recommend. However, we prefer Rufus because we find it loads a lot quicker, and feels a bit faster, too.
For a great many reasons, this is still our preferred method of creating USB boot drives. To load the Windows. NOTE: As the program will state, doing this will erase all data off of the flash drive — so backup first. According to research, Yumi is the fastest bootable USB maker on the list. Yumi has a user-friendly interface.
XBoot is another utility that has the ability to create multi-boot USB flash drives. WBI Creator is a portable application without installation. If you are advanced users, you can create bootable USB keys manually with Unetbootin. After you burn ISO to USB drive and reinstall operating system successfully, you may need a powerful password reset application to protect your PC and the data.
Then Tipard Windows Password Reset is a smart choice. In this case, try one of the other programs listed in Step 1 or check with the maker of the ISO image for more help getting their software to work from a USB drive. Under the Image option area, pick Standard Windows installation if you see this and if that's the case. For example, if you're putting a Windows installation ISO image onto the flash drive, and you get this option, you'd want to enable it for sure.
Leave the Partition scheme , Target system , File system , and Cluster size options alone unless you know what you're doing or you've been advised to set any of those parameters to something else.
In that case, make that change before continuing. You're welcome to enter a custom volume label in the Volume label field, but leaving it at whatever the default happens to be, or even blank, shouldn't have any impact on anything. Under Format Options , inside the Show advanced format options menu, you'll see a number of You can leave all of them in their default state, but you're welcome to select Check device for bad blocks if you have some concern that the flash drive or USB device you're using may have an issue.
Choosing 1 pass is just fine in most cases but knock that up to 2 or more if you've had issues with this drive before. Read any warning messages and address them appropriately. Take this message seriously! Make sure the flash drive or other USB device is empty or that you're fine with erasing everything on it.
You might also see a Download required message if Rufus needs some additional files to complete the burn process. Selecting Yes will start that download. Wait while Rufus properly formats the USB drive so it's bootable, and then copies all the files to the drive that are contained in the ISO image you selected earlier. The total time to do this depends very much on how large the ISO file is that you're working with.
Some small diagnostic tools take under one minute, while larger images like a 5 GB Windows 11 ISO could take closer to 20 minutes. Your computer and USB hardware speeds are a big factor here as well. Now that the ISO file is properly "burned," you can boot from the USB device and then continue with whatever it is you're using this drive for. For example, if you've put a memory testing program on a flash drive, you can now boot from that flash drive and test your RAM with it.
The same goes for bootable hard drive testing programs , data wipe programs, antivirus tools , etc. Booting from a USB drive is often as easy as plugging the drive in to any free USB port and then restarting your computer , but it can sometimes be much more complicated.
See the tutorial linked above if you need help. You're more than welcome to use the procedure we've outlined above with Rufus for Windows ISO images, like those you might have downloaded for Windows 11, Windows 10, etc. While still in Command Prompt, expand the ramdisk. PEBuilder: Check that you have the files copied. Replace d: with the letter of the drive where your USB flash drive is loaded.
Type YES , when prompted to begin the process. Press Enter after typing YES. Find the USB drive and its corresponding number. It may take a few minutes to format the entire USB flash drive, depending on its size.
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