Questions tagged [bootable-media]

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Create Windows 10 bootable/installation USB drive

I created Windows 10 installation USB drive using media creation tool provided by MS. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/) At first I thought it was USB bootable and also ...
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No bootable device after changing UEFI to Legacy

I'm using an ASUS aspire e 15 laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu installed. I wanted to boot from a live USB, but no matter what, it boot even though, the same live USB works on another machine. Boot ...
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Cant boot from ubuntu install media

I have a Surface Pro 7, currently running Windows 11 and want to install Ubuntu as a second OS. I can not get the install media, which I created using rufus on Windows 11, to boot. With the same ...
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Can I export bootable USB disks to ISO images?

I have several bootable USB flash drives lying around - some of them have Linux distros on them and others are Windows recovery drives. The thing is that the number of flash drives for these purposes ...
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grub rescue unknown filesystem

i am dual booting Win11 and artix linux(or trying to do so..) i have celan installed win 11, shrunk volume of drive, and w rufus created USB to install artix with after restart n selecting USB i just ...
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Black screen after boot menu Kali Linux

I have installed Kali Linux 2024.1 on a USB stick with persistence using Rufus. After the boot menu screen where I have to select the boot device - my USB drive - I only see a black screen. The ...
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Installing Windows 11 with UEFI Firmware and ISO flashed with `dd`

I have a machine with UEFI firmware [Asus UEFI firmware version 3202] that previously ran Windows, later Ubuntu, that I now plan to install Windows 11 on, but the Windows 11 install media will not ...
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How to identify my cloned C drive in Dell boot options?

I have a Dell Precision Tower 3620 running Windows 10 and I installed a new 512Gb internal SSD (size exactly matches my C-drive). The new drive mapped to H because I have some other external drives ...
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Where to download a Microsoft PXE image?

When I look for a Microsoft PXE image to download I can only find different tools which will build a PXE image. Is it still possible to simply download a Microsoft PXE image directly? Looking to make ...
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What path to write a Windows ISO to create a bootable thumb drive?

Was looking to use PXE, but now just directly downloading the Windows 10 ISO as: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /media/nicholas/ total 18 drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 5 Feb 19 18:23 ....
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Still unable to install Windows 11 from boot USB flash drive. A media driver is missing

I have a new build (specs below) which is currently running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. motherboard: GIGABYTE B760M AORUS ELITE AX (manual) GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT Challenger D CPU: Intel Core i7-...
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How to boot from USB flash drive on an HP with BIOS of INSYDEH20 v. 3.5

I rebooted many times with known-good USB flash drives in different ports. When I get to the boot choice (hit Esc at BIOS splash screen, follow prompt OR just F9 at BIOS splash screen) I see the ...
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We can't make bootable macOS Mavericks bootable USB flash drives anymore?

I've been using macOS Mavericks (10.9.5) for years and have done quite a few times of re-installing using bootable USB flash drive, made by using the terminal commands. However today I tried to create ...
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Installing windows 11 fails, "A media driver your computer needs is missing" error

I've been trying to install win11 on my MSI Pulse laptop, but whenever I boot from USB it gives me error "A media driver your computer needs is missing". I found out so far that INTEL VMD/...
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Boot loop and BSOD after attempting to reinstall Windows 11 on a brand new computer

Today I unboxed my new Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16ARX8H 82WSCTO1WW with RTX 4090. Together with it I bought a WD BLACK SN850X 2TB SSD. The evening went as follows: Opened up the laptop and installed the ...
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Create Bootable windows 7 ISO from Windows 7 Installation for use in Windows 11 Virtual Machine

My windows 7 laptop had a motherboard issue but the removed HDD is still good. I want to create a bootable ISO-image of the windows-7 installation on this now external HDD that I can connect via USB ...
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How to make a clone of a bootable USB?

I have a bootable USB for OSX El Capitan that I got from a friend. I need to make a copy of that on my USB. How do I clone that or make it into an ISO and clone the ISO into my USB in Mac?
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Is possible update ventoy through Linux when it was installed from the beginning through Windows 10?

To load an .iso image through the boot process through a pendrive (or usb flash drive) is very useful Ventoy I want to know if is possible, and mostly safe, accomplish the following scenario Is ...
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Create Windows installation media in a disk partition of internal second hard drive. (like bootable usb with rufus)

I have windows 10 installed in a SSD and my laptop has another internal HDD. I frequently mess up windows trying new thing. So, i always need a Windows installation media available (created a bootable ...
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Rufus “Windows To Go” fails to boot and shows errors [closed]

I made tiny11 installation on my Kingston 64GB USB flash drive. It was working for few days, but now sometimes it fails to boot and when it boots running programs I'm getting missing DLL errors. Is my ...
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How to access HD contents with Ubuntu Bootable USB

I've got a 16 GB USB with 4 GB persistent memory running 10.04.3 Ubuntu on my T60 Thinkpad. (The Thinkpad is running WinXP if it makes any difference) The problem I'm running into is that I can't see ...
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Create bootable windows 10 USB from chrome OS

So my PC crashed a couple days ago and I need to run a clean install of windows 10 from a bootable USB. The only other computer I have to work with is a Chrome OS, and I can't seem to find clear ...
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What's the difference between EFI booting a USB versus a hard disk?

Can you please tell me the difference between EFI booting a USB and EFI booting a hard drive, as wheen installing a Linux image on the USB using Rufus, it's booting, but when the same image is ...
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How to Make Linux Partition Bootable?

I need help. I've ended up on my Linux machine without a bootable drive. I need to make one of my drives bootable. Any ideas?
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multiboot usb recognized by bios but won't boot

I'm really starting to accumulate alot of usb drives, so I decided to try and make a multi boot usb drive and I can't seem to get it to boot. I have tried using two different multiboot usb creator ...
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Windows does not come back into hibernation after booting to another Windows

I have Windows 11 installed on a partition of my computer. I also have Windows 11 and Ubuntu installed on a USB drive. Sometimes I will put the Windows 11 on the computer to hibernation then boot up ...
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Why is a bootable USB not detected during boot? (Installed: Parrot OS, USB: Ultramarine Linux)

I created a bootable USB using rufus4.3 (build 2090) for Ultramarine Linux 38. It is not being detected during startup, and I directly see the grub menu for the installed OS (Parrot 5.3). (Similar ...
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Rufus doesn't support HDAT2

I want to install HDAT2 and create a bootable pendrive using Rufus. However, I always receive a message saying: 'This ISO image is either not bootable, or uses a compression or boot method not ...
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Is there any residual data from booting from a USB?

I've been getting ready to boot from a Kali Linux Live Boot USB. Is there any way my privacy can be compromised after I remove the USB by going through logs or otherwise hidden data? If so, is there a ...
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How to install DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) on an USB flash drive larger than 4GB and make it bootable on an UEFI-equipped PC?

Disclaimer: I am answering my own question. I need to wipe my Windows laptop's internal hard drive. I find DBAN per How-To Geek's recommendation, but I am having trouble installing it on a 64GB USB ...
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Installing "bootable USB" programs (Gparted, Clonezilla, Memtest, etc.) to internal drive partitions - Bad idea?

Is there any reason why it might be a bad idea to take programs that are typically installed as bootable USB drives and instead create an appropriately sized partition for each of them on the internal ...
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Multi-partition USB drive

Is it possible to with any linux or windows software partition a USB drive and be able to while maintaining the data stored on one partition, overwrite another with something like an iso? Could i then ...
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UEFI in asus H110 motherboard not work

I have created a bootable GPT and UEFI flash drive. but when I connect it to the system a screen appear that the BIOS configuration is not UEFI, it is legacy, but I set the motherboard configuration ...
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Windows 10 install from USB stuck on blank blue screen

I was having winload.efi error 0xc0000225, so I tried to install Windows 10 (again) to my computer but during the boot, it is stuck like this video, where it does not show anything, just the Windows ...
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System won't boot from USB (x86)

I have a Lanner FW-7551 I'm trying to install OPNSense, but it won't boot from my USB. https://i.stack.imgur.com/GiClG.png I was able to get into the bios and it recognize the USB. https://i.stack....
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How do I create a bootable flash drive running MS-DOS 6.22?

I'm trying to create a bootable USB for MS-DOS 6.22. I can't risk using FreeDOS or any other version of DOS because I'm working with a very niche utility that has the potential to break expensive ...
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Orange and white stripes on Windows 10 installation

I'm trying to install Windows 10 in a laptop, but when I boot Windows 10 from a bootable USB stick, vertical orange and white stripes appear in the screen. I've been looking for information on this ...
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Windows non-bootable repair, Installation USB not working

Overall Problem & Context: My work laptop broke yesterday with no obvious cause. Symptoms were it would only boot to MSI Click Bios (its an MSI laptop) repeatedly. The OS was Windows 11. I've ...
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If I remove SSD from laptop and put it in external enclosure, can I boot same laptop from it and access files?

My laptop (Thinkpad P51s) is no longer seeing its NMVe SSD (apparently some connector issue). I'm planning to use an external enclosure to retrieve my data, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to ...
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Windows 11 BSOD after installing Visual Studio - have bootable drive settings been changed somehow?

I installed Visual Studio from Microsoft via this link. I was wanting to install qView (minimalist image viewer), and it requires Visual Studio, so I thought I would make sure that I have the latest ...
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Making recovery media ISO bootable on USB flash drive

I am trying to "burn" the ISO recovery media file from Paragon Hard Disk Manager to a USB flash drive, but balena Etcher warns: The image does not appear to contain a partition table, and ...
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Hard disk cloning tool on Tru64 unix [closed]

I have hp compaq ds15 server running Tru64 unix 5.1B with two scsi hard disks, I want to get a tool that clones the entire hard disk to another new one. Does anyone tried it before???
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Cannot enable Secure boot on Gigabyte H61M-DS2

Trying to help a friend do a fresh install of Windows, but the bootable USB isn't even listed in the BIOS. I realized that Secure Boot is currently disabled, and assume this is the issue. However ...
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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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Non-bootable legacy Windows usb pendrive

I am trying to get some vintage laboratory equipment to work. Unfortunately out of my control; the laboratory equipment has software that is written for old Microsoft OS, like Windows XP. The software ...
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Rufus unable to download idlinux.sys and idlinux.bss, any alternate option/fixes?

I am currently trying to install linux but i have this issue of syslinux of diff vers. In the iso. For some reason rufus fails to download the files. Is there any way i can download the files manually ...
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recreated iso from files/folders of an extracted bootable iso but it is not bootable

I have a bootable iso file of a disk imaging software. I have tested this and it boots without a problem from my multiboot ventoy flash drive both in UEFI and MBR modes. I checked that it shows as ...
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Does Ubuntu have a “boot override” function like in the Win10 recovery options?

Windows 10 has a function to boot from a USB Flash Drive after restart using some kind of "boot override" function, which probably bypasses the usual boot order in the BIOS. Can I find ...
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Windows 10 not booting from usb for fresh install

I have a dell Inspiron 3542 with 8gb memory I have installed windows 10 up to build 1909 many times from bootable USB using Rufus on my laptop but one day I stopped my laptop while installing windows ...
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Multiboot DVD with live-cds?

How can I create a multi bootable (with menu) cd/dvd that contains a number of live cds? Is there any "easy" way of doing this? Isolinux is the way to go I guess, but is there any tool available for ...

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