Creating a Windows bootable flash drive using Rufus

Rufus is a special utility designed to create bootable USB devices. Using it, you can easily record a Windows boot image of any version. Rufus is 100% free and secure. This has been repeatedly tested over the past 10 years. No VirusTotal check has ever revealed malicious software.

Step-by-step instructions for writing Windows to a bootable USB flash drive:

1. Download Rufus to a PC. No installation is required. The program will start on its own when the downloaded file is open. If the bootable USB drive is not connected to the PC at this moment, the information will not be displayed in some lines of the program window.

To download, we need to open the linkhttps://rufus.ie/ru /and the "Portable" file is enough for us.

Download and run the downloaded file.

2) Select the language we need. To do this, click on the image of the planet. In the list that opens, we search for your language.

Select the drive to burn the ISO image. To do this, go to the “" section.Device”.

Sometimes the desired flash drive may not appear in the list because it is marked as a local drive. In this case, we click on the item “Show extended disk properties” and check the box on the line “List of USB drives.”

Click on "List of USB drives"

This will make the flash drive available for selection. At the same time, any files from it are deleted!

3) Choose the download method. In our case, this is “Disk or image”.

4) Select the ISO image. If it has already been prepared, just click on the file and click “Open ”. If not, first download the image to the PC.

5) Select the installation type. We will be offered two options: “Standard Windows Installation” and “Windows To Go". Click on the first one. The second option is used for direct system startup. At the same time, we will need a solid storage capacity of at least 16 GB.

6) We are setting up the partition scheme and the target system. The standard values are “GPT” and “UEFI”, respectively. If you have a modern PC, you don't need to change anything. If you have an old operating system (for example, “Seven”), it is better to download the Rufus version 3.22.

7) In the window “Formatting options” mark the NTFS file system and “Fast formatting". We should also have a note on the item “Create an extended label and device icon.”

8)In the next window, click “Start”.

9)We start recording the bootable USB drive. At the same time, we will see a window warning about the destruction of all data on the disk. Click “Ok” (if it turns out that some data has not been previously copied, you can click “Cancel”). Immediately after that, the creation of a flash drive with an ISO image of Windows will start. You will need it to install the OS.

All the work on recording the flash drive will take about 5-10 minutes. To install the OS using a recorded image, It is necessary to start the boot device via BIOS/UEFI. Thanks to this, the installation will be performed correctly.

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