RUFUS is a freeware Windows 10 ISO to USB media creation utility.

USB device with adequate capacity( 4GB Minimum for Linux and 8GB minimum for Windows).

ISO file for creating Installation Media.

How to Create a Bootable USB using RUFUS? Requirements In this article, we aim to guide you through the steps for creating a Bootable USB Media for Linux OS using Rufus. Among all of them, RUFUS is the most popular choice software for Windows 10 as well as OSX bootable USB tool. You can choose any application that works for you. The prominent one being the setting up of a USB installation media for Windows or Linux requires additional software. But even when Bootable USB media hold a significant edge over CD/DVD drives in most cases, it does have some caveats as well.

For a reason being readily available and configurable, USB drives have slowly overtaken CD/DVDs of the olden times. After booting the live media, start the installer and follow the guided installation procedure.USB Drives are the most convenient go-to devices nowadays when the need to prepare a Bootable media arises.

We recommend to boot the drive in UEFI mode if listed. Each command uses the same device and media but boots the PC in a different firmware mode. For example, you might see UEFI USB Drive and BIOS USB drive. You might see separate commands for the same device.

From the setup utility, boot to the usb drive:.

Create a bootable USB using DD/Etcher/Ventoy/Rufus.

UEFI is much preferred over BIOS whenever possible.

If your firmware supports UEFI then configure your device to use UEFI only in its setup utility.

Otherwise, the Linux kernel may not be able to detect your drive.

Make sure that your device's SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in your device's setup utility.

Check the manual of your device/motherboard for further info. It may not be possible to disable the latter explicitly - try clearing the secure boot keys instead. Common keys used: Esc, Delete, F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, or F12.

Boot the PC and press the manufacturer specific key to open your device's setup utility.

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