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I have an Iso file on my desktop. I go to select this in Rufus to make a bootable drive and it doesn't see it's existence. It saw this very iso when it was in my D USB drive but I had to move it because it can't be in the same location it's creating the drive in. So I move the file to the desktop (and I tried other folders too) and it's not showing up. Rufus is ghosting me. What's the solution?

ISO disk image not showing

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If one used admin privileges to execute Rufus, check the path and use the correct user's folders/files.

e.g.

C:\Users[user]\Downloads

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  • Your answer is correct and is the fullest explanation; yet it is written with low clarity and detail. You should improve your answer by clarifying it. See my comment to the above answer from link as an example. Jan 16, 2021 at 2:33
  • This solved the problem! I had to open Rufus with Admin privileges. So it wasn't showing me the ISO file in the folder. Feb 10, 2022 at 13:27
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Solved my own problem. I still don't understand what happened. It couldn't see the file in Rufus, or in two other similar applications. Something was systemic/universal. Well I got it to recognize it by copying the file path and pasting it in. After that it could see it. It was there all along. I don't know why it behaved like that. It seems to be working. I'll get a chance to try boot it next month maybe when I have some spare time. That was a joke

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  • Thanks for posting for solution. Would you be willing to Edit the answer to make it shorter and more readable for a future user who stumbles on a similar issue? Feb 4, 2019 at 21:56
  • Your workaround is related to the full explanation but does not grok it. The full explanation: Rufus navigates to directories such as Downloads, Documents, or Directories within %userprofile% of the account with which Rufus is launched. If you save your ISO in a non-privileged user account, then you launch Rufus as admin and authenticate with a separate account, then use Rufus uses the admin's Desktop, Documents, and Downloads. Manually browsing step-by-step through C:\ eliminates this problem by avoiding reliance on %userprofile%. Jan 16, 2021 at 2:31
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I had a similar problem with Rufus.

I solved the issue by placing the .iso file in a folder outside my windows User folder. E.g. in a folder called ISO, on the c drive.

This suggests that .iso files located in the User folders it tried, i.e. Desktop or in the Downloads folder were not seen by Rufus.

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  • This is strange, but it also worked for me for Ubuntu Boot. Thanks @artaxerxes
    – bim
    Jun 15, 2022 at 16:15

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