A spare USB stick (an 8GB USB should be plenty for Windows 10 but make sure you have one that’s large enough for the ISO you’re using).The latest version of Rufus (available online from ).
To create a bootable USB using Rufus, all you need is: Rufus is one of several programs that allow you to create an “ISO image” on a USB stick. This can be useful if you ever need to recover, repair or install an operating system on your computer. By running the bootable USB however, you can boot up your computer using the USB’s ISO image instead. Normally, whenever you start up your computer, it boots from the operating system stored on your internal hard drive. This could, for example, be a Windows installation CD. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER.A “ bootable USB” is a regular USB storage device (like a USB stick or external hard drive) that has an “ISO image” of an operating system saved on it.Īn ISO image is an archive file that contains all the information found on an optical disc, such as a CD or DVD.
To select the partition that you just created, type select partition 1, and then click ENTER. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create partition primary, and then click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive.
Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive.Īt the command prompt, type select disk, where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER. The list disk command displays all the disks on the computer. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer. Restore or repair your server running Windows Server Essentials Restore a full system from an existing client computer backup To create a bootable USB flash drive for use in recovering or reinstalling Windows on a PC instead of a server, see Create a recovery drive.įor additional scenarios in which you may want to create or use a bootable USB flash drive, see the following topics:
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