I keep writing about bootable USB drive because users can install his operating system in the fastest way. Some of my posts are Create Windows 7 / 8 bootable USB device, Software for making windows 8 bootable, Make bootable USB Windows 8 using WinUSB Maker. Windows users have already a lot of good utilities to create a bootable USB using an ISO file and then install Windows from a USB flash drive. Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool, WinToFlash, and Universal USB installer are the most popular utilities available for creating bootable USB drive.
While every utilities mentioned above do their job very well, the only thing is that all these tools take a large amount of time to transfer the ISO onto the USB. Even though power user prefer creating bootable USB drive via command line to third party tools, novice users always prefer third-party tools for the job.
Users who don’t want to use the command prompt method for creating bootable USB media, for those people Rufus utility is recommended. Rufus is a small utility for Windows and helps you create bootable USB drives. The best thing about this tool is that it’s faster than other tools. According to the developer of the tool, it’s twice as fast as the official Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool, Universal USB installer and UNetBootin tools, You can see the comparative chart below for the time taken by different tools.
Rufus tool suppost Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista, Windows and Windows 8, this software also supports Arch Linux, Hiren’s Boot CD, Parted Magic, NT Password Registry Editor, Knoppix, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora and many other Linux distributions.
Download, run the utility, select your USB drive and browse to the ISO file to begin transferring ISO file contents onto the USB drive and after 4 minutes you will be ready with your bootable USB drive.
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