How to make an installation flash drive with Windows and not only

In this article, we'll look at how to make an installation USB flash drive. First, in our century, optical discs appeared , on which a lot of information, distributions of many programs that have a paid license, are sold to this day. In addition to programs, these disks also sell operating systems.

But everything comes to an end. Not to say that the discs have outlived their time, no, they are likely to continue to be in the works for a long time, since their production continues to this day, and the quantity that is now in the hands of the consumer will disappear for a long time from the turnover .

In addition, a few years ago there were netbooks that do not even have a device for reading disks, it was replaced here by USB-ports, in which you can stick a regular USB flash drive. Not only that there was an opportunity to use USB 2.0, but there were also so-called Card Reader, which allow the use of flash drives of other standards.

So, with the achievement of such technologies, there was a need to make an installation flash drive. What is it for? To install the operating system on your computer, if you can not use the disk. In order to create an installation flash drive, the world community of Internet users has united for a long time, so there are many ways to achieve this goal.

How to make an installation flash drive, described in many different ways, most of which are finicky then to the operating system with which they are conducted, then to the distribution, then to the drive and even to many small things. First of all, it is necessary to decide what the boot flash drive is for. If you need to install XP, then the most correct option is UltraISO. To start, you need a distribution in the .iso format, you can do it from a licensed disk using the same program.

Now directly on how to make an installation flash drive. To do this, select the "Bootstrap" tab, and then click "Open". Next, select the iso-image of our operating system, then click "Burn hard disk image" there. Next, specify the carrier on which it will be recorded. It is important to remember that the program formats the medium before recording. About how to make a setup flash drive with Linux or Ubuntu, too, do not worry, because this method also works for them.

In addition, it is worth mentioning how to make an installation USB flash drive with a distribution of Windows 7 or 8. For this there is a very simple solution from Microsoft. It received the name Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. To write to the flash drive it is enough to select the iso-image, and then specify the path to the media. Wait about 10 minutes, and wow! The installation USB flash drive is ready.

Now you need to reboot the computer, set BIOS boot priority to our flash drive and save the settings. After this, a scheduled reboot will occur and installation will begin. But this is another story that needs to be told in another article.

It should be remembered that the second method is only suitable for installing Win 7 or Win 8, the earlier versions of the program can not write to the media. In the latter version, the recording takes several times less time to write, for example, an assembly of 2 GB size will be recorded for 5-10 minutes, depending on the computer.