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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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Cleaning drive and installing Windows

Today, while trying to install windows on my machine i used rufus on mac instead of the windows media creation tool on windows and that somehow nessed up my installation. Windows booted only after ...
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Bootable Windows Iso and live Ubuntu Flavors on same Drive

I want to put bootable windows 7 iso and all the Ubuntu flavors on same either large flash drive or a external drive. I also would like to be able to run these flavors as live instead of installing it....
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How can I create a bootable Mac OS with an image of the EFI and OS partitions?

I recently installed Linux Mint on my Macbook Air, and saved my old OS to a couple disk images (The EFI and the OS). I created two partitions the exact size of the EFI and OS images on an external ...
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Create Windows Installation Media with Updates

I often need to install a specific version of Windows 10 from a flash drive; however, the problem is that after I install it, it needs to install security updates from the internet, which takes an ...
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how to configue vmware workstation 15 to boot a virtual machine from a bootable usb drive

I want to try a lot of tutorials as given here windows tutorials (tutorial index) So I need to prepare a lot of live USB sticks or USB sticks in the formats in which tutorials mention.Most of these ...
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How does dd know about correct disk label when burning iso to usb?

I used dd to burn arch linux image to usb stick, but now I need to store additional files on the same usb stick. The usb stick is read-only after dd so I decided to format it manually. The stick was ...
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How do I create a bootable copy of my operating system on an external HDD?

I have a MacBook Air which I'll be installing Linux on, and want to copy the operating system to an external hard drive so I don't lose my files. I tried using Clonezilla, however it does not show up ...
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Disable computer to boot from CD or USB in windows 10 build 1809

How should I disable boot such as CD,DVD,USB in Windows 10 Build 1809. I went to BIOS but couldn't find the option to disable the Removable Drive and CD-ROM Drive
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Can I boot from a hard drive which contains a copy of the entire filesystem?

I have a MacBook Air, which has a 120GB SSD. I copied the entire file system to another hard drive by just click-and-dragging the root directory. Is it possible boot from this hard drive? I know I can'...
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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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Bootable Windows 10 USB doesn't boot up in Linux

I want to install Windows over Linux. I followed these instructions (https://itsfoss.com/bootable-windows-usb-linux) to create a bootable Windows USB. I got the Windows ISO from here (https://www....
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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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How would I create a bootable ssd with Linux that can work on multiple machines

I bought a ssd recently and am trying to make it bootable for Linux, I have downloaded the Linux .ISO onto a USB and have then installed Linux onto the ssd and partioned it with a 8gb swap, 500mb efi ...
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LG Gram install Ubuntu with USB

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18 LTS on an LG Gram 17 laptop. I created a bootable USB with the Ubuntu 18 image. I disabled already secure boot and also removed signatures (I think it is called setup ...
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Unable to read FAT32 formatted drive in Windows 10

My Dell XPS13 notebook will not read any FAT32 formatted drive, be it a USB flash drive or the bootable UEFI partition. This is preventing me from: Updating Windows 10 Entering Safe Mode Reading ...
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Can we copy recovery usb files to another recovery usb as bootable

I am using HP 15-DK0045TX Gaming Laptop which has Windows 10 Home. I created a system recovery USB drive by using the "Recovery drive" application inside Windows 10. My doubt is, can we boot from ...
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How to Boot FreeDOS on Newer Intel CPUs?

I have 2 PCs at home: A Desktop PC (i3-3220), and a Mini-PC I bought recently, that has a Celeron J3355 CPU (7th generation - "Apollo Lake") in it. I am using Windows on my Desktop PC, and ...
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Am I up against an uncrackable UEFI chip on this HP notebook?

I recently got a new HP laptop with Windows 10 installed and prefered some versatility, so I plugged in one of my many Linux live USBs to get to work. I was greeted with ENTER ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD, ...
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Trouble with booting machines by bootable USB drive of Windows 10 ISO image

I have downloaded Windows 10 ISO image and I'm used dd command on Linux to make a bootable USB drive: $ sudo dd if=Win10_1903_V2_English_x64.iso of=/dev/sdc $ sudo sync I when I try to boot an Asus ...
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How do I recover my USB to a Normal state from a Kali Live Persistance bootable USB?

So, I made a Kali Live Persistance bootable USB but now I want to format and get it to it's normal state. Can someone tell me how to do it? When I try to just right-click format it, It shows the size ...
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Bootable USB with Windows Server 2016 not installing, loading after many attempts

Windows Server(2016) put on bootable USB not loading. Have tried to load from both mbr and gpt partitions. I am trying to load it on my Debian machine to turn it into a Windows Home Server 2016. I ...
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Burning a USB Windows Recovery drive to DVD

I have a USB Windows Recovery drive for Surface 2, which is an ARM device running Windows 8.1 RT. I need to recycle the USB, so I thought of copying out the Recovery. So in PowerISO, I copied the ...
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Best way to make a bootable WIndows 10 image on USB with all existing softwares, drivers & configurations to deploy on identical hardwares?

Best way to make a bootable Windows 10 image on USB with all existing software, drivers & configurations to deploy on exactly identical hardware? There is no difference in the hardware we want to ...
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How to let a VirtualBox environment replace your Windows?

I have a virtual environment in VirtualBox which I use so much that I would like it to replace my Windows. Is it possible to make a bootable USB to install this environment on my PC, or is there ...
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How to format Microsoft Windows 10 USB stick?

I have Microsoft Windows 10 Home installation USB stick. It's the small metal grey and blue flash drive that Microsoft provides. I want to format it, as appears to be corrupted. I tried but it ...
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How copy bootable partition to GPT-ed disk's partition?

After messing up my Windows, at this moment (to say shortly), I have 256 GB HDD ( with C: 255GB and D: 1GB partition). I've made somehow efi-bootable USB-drive and if I plug the USB drive, then PC ...
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PC freezes when entering automatic repair, then power off

Today, I’ve been upgrading my RAM and CPU. Due to some confusion, I powered off the PC during boot, which I believe has led to hard drive problems. The drive is recognised as bootable in my BIOS, but ...
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Preparing bootable SSDs for 20 students

I teach a class in Robotics and I have 20 students with various windows, mac and the odd linux laptop. They come in all shapes and sizes. So to give the students max chance of success I want to give ...
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How to assign the VMware license key to a bootable USB (ISO image)

I have created a bootable USB using Rufus, but for every new installation I need to go to the Host and manually assign the license. Is there a way to create a bootable USB with the license already ...
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Install bootable Ubuntu on external SSD without changing Windows 10

At work I have to use Ubuntu sometimes but I'd prefer to stick to Windows and don't want to have a dual boot setup. I don't really know if this is possible, that's why I am asking here before breaking ...
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How to create (UEFI) multiboot USB drive? [duplicate]

I want to create multiboot USB flash drive that contains Windows 10, Windows 7 installers and hirens DVD with Windows 10 PE for rescue purposes. And I want to make it compatible with UEFI. I used to ...
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Can I boot a laptop to USB with Windows with no hard drive?

I'm on a long trip with little access to hardware support or supplies. I'm working on one laptop and my wife is working on the other. The hard drive on her laptop has just died (according to the BIOS ...
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How can I delete/format partitions during Windows install from USB?--getting errors

My Windows 10 'winload.efi' became corrupted and I opted to clean install using the Windows media creator tool to create a bootable USB. Upon booting from USB, I chose custom install and proceeded to ...
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How to fix a deleted USB flash drive partition?

I was trying to make a Kali Linux bootable. By mistake I deleted the complete USB flash drive partition and now its all free space. Ubuntu and Mac both are not accepting the USB flash drive and I ...
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I want to write an ISO without a partition table to an USB stick

So, I have an ISO that I want to write to a bootable USB stick. The problem is that the ISO does not have a partition table. From my understanding, this type of ISO should be written on a DVD. Can I ...
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Why does my desktop see two UEFI partitions where my laptop sees one?

When I make bootable USBs and plug them in to my main computer, There are (almost) always two UEFI partitions, like here: ^^Note that in this picture "USB: Samsung flash drive 1100" is a different ...
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How to create a bootable USB drive with portable VM support?

I want to use my USB SSD drive to use as a portable linux system. It should be able to boot directly as well as from a running Windows (POSIX would be a nice addition) system (probably via some ...
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How to resolve Minimal BASH-Like line editing is supported

I'm trying to migrate from windows to ubuntu, so I tried to make a bootable usb using rufus and later on using universal usb installer in both the cases after selecting boot device I'm getting this ...
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What is non-deterministic about remaking bootable USBs?

I have had extremely variable luck with bootable USB sticks, and over time I have become puzzled and wonder what exactly is going on. In threads such as this one and this one, it seems that I am not ...
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Reinstalling windows 8.1 via rufus

It took me hell amount of time to fix windows 8.1 activation issue and update problem which is the update client being stuck on 'checking for updates'.But I finally fixed them all, now I want to ...
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Can you boot NTFS Flash Drive?

I want to make an bootable Hirens DVD (And a Windows 7) but everytime I tried it on a NTFS drive. It failed. Is there a way? Is it really impossible to boot from NTFS?
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Replacing Hard disk Causing "Boot Device Not Found"

My HP Laptop hard disk died I decided to use an old Hoshiba laptop hard disk to replace the died one I installed the HDD into the laptop I turn the laptop on I get this Error Boot Device Not Found ...
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How do I install Windows XP on my old laptop?

I recently wiped/killed my old Windows Laptop (Thinkpad T40) using free disk erasing software. Now I realized the mistake of not having created a reliable image of the existing Windows XP operating ...
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Increase bootable USB available memory

I wanted to know if it is possible to use the USB memory to increase the available disk-space for a bootable OS in an USB. I have a bootable USB which runs Kali Linux. I noticed that the available ...
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Can't access internal drive from Linux bootable USB flash drive

I've been trying to install a Linux partition on my new laptop—a Dell XPS 15 9570—for dual booting, but I haven't been able to. Whatever system I try to run from a bootable USB flash drive (gparted, ...
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Computer boots normally instead of to USB, ignoring BIOS boot order

I have both an Ubuntu 18.10 and a Windows 10 bootable USB drive. I used them to install both operating systems on the same laptop for dual boot. In order to select which one I boot to, I'm using the ...
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How to make an Ubuntu LiveUSB for an non-UEFI system from within Raspbian?

I need to make an Ubuntu LiveUSB to boot an non UEFI system from within the Raspbian OS. The PC's BIOS requires Legacy mode, and the LiveUSB I made will not boot that PC. The Rufus app will not work ...
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How to change boot order if I can't access legacy BIOS?

I want to format an old notebook (Dell Vostro with windows 10) with a lightweight linux and it's just been a series of failures: I tried making a bootable CD, but the CD drive apparently is not ...
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Is it possible to successfully clone (with dd) a Linux OS disk between different sized/models SSDs?

I have a CentOS installed on quite an old SSD. The SSD indicates hardware problems in the syslog. I suspect that the answer to the following is no, especially due to superblocks and boot-sectors ...
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