The document provides a detailed guide on creating bootable USB drives for installing operating systems, including Windows and Linux. It outlines the necessary software and procedures for both legacy BIOS and UEFI motherboards, detailing steps to prepare the USB drive, select the appropriate options, and boot from the drive. Additionally, it lists various programs like Rufus and UNetbootin that can be used to create bootable USBs, specifying their features and suitable use cases.

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2. Learning Competencies
After this module the student will be able to . . .
○ Prepare their usb bootable drive installer according to the
manufacturer procedure.
○ Prepare their usb drive containing drivers and application software.

3. HOW TO CREATE BOOTABLE USB FROM ISO
• The type of bootable USB drive you are creating depends on the
motherboard you are using.
• You need the ISO image file of the target operating system you want to install.
That can be Windows 10, Windows 7 or any flavor of Linux like Ubuntu or
Mint.
• Once you have the ISO image to start with, open any software from the list
below.
1. Insert the USB pen drive of minimum 4GB size.
2. The bootable USB drive making software will automatically detect and list the drive.
Make sure you select the correct drive as all the data on the drive will be destroyed.
3. Now click on 'select' button and locate the ISO image file of the operating system from
your hard drive.
4. Select the appropriate option for partition scheme and other options and hit start. It
will take around 15 minutes depending on your operating system size.

5. FOR OLD MOTHERBOARD
(using legacy BIOS)
• First select the ISO image file, from the disk icon behind 'create a bootable
disk using' option. ( Do this first only because, if you select other options
first, and the file later, the settings go to default after selecting the ISO file.
Maybe a bug ) Select the target drive and file system (For Windows keep it
NTFS).
• Select 'MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI' from partition scheme and
target system type.
• Keep the file system, cluster size as it is or you can change it to NTFS for
Windows and exFAT for Linux.
• You can give an appropriate name to the resulting bootable drive.
• ISO image on your hard disk must be a valid bootable image because Rufus
scans the image before you load it.
• Click the start button and wait for the process to complete. This may take
up to 20 minutes.

6. FOR NEW MOTHERBOARD
(using UEFI)
• UEFI motherboards most of the time need 64 bit Windows. Else you
will get 'Could not locate 'dfibootbootx64.efi: [14] Not found' error.
If you get this error, you just need 64 bit Windowsversion. The 7th
generation Intel CPU does not support Windows 7 or older. You must
have Windows 10.
• Select the ISO image file of OS you want to burn.
• Select 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI' from partition scheme and
target system type.
• NTFS as the file system.
If you create bootable USB using MBR scheme, you may get an error
like 'Windows can not be installed. The partition is GPT type.
Carefully check the options as above before you hit the start button.

8. HOW TO BOOT FROM USB DRIVE
• Once you have completed creating the bootable USB drive, its time to
install the OS. For that, you have to boot from the USB drive.
1. Restart your PC and press the key F12 or Delete depending upon the
manufacturer of your PC. Sometimes this key may be different.
2. Select USB drive as a first boot device from the boot menu.

9. OTHER THINGS TO DO
• Prepare or Download the software driver for your motherboard and
other components thru internet.
• Prepare or Download other application software you need for your
computer system. (such as; anti-virus, office productivity tools, games,
photo editing tools etc.)

10. SOFTWARE PROGRAM USE TO CREATE
BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
1. RUFUS
Rufus is a simple and easy to use. It automatically
detects your USB flash drive and capacity so you
can easily identify which device you are
formatting. The bootable USB drive can be
created for newer hardware supporting UEFI or
for legacy BIOS. You only have to select proper
options from the list.

11. SOFTWARE PROGRAM USE TO CREATE
BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
2. RMPrepUSB
It's all in one tool. Features come with the
cluttered interface. If you don't know what
are you doing, don't use it. I personally do
not recommend it if you want a simple
bootable USB to install a new operating
system.
RMPrepUBS is specialized in creating
multiple partitions in a single USB drive. You
can install multiple ISO of the different OS or
save user files along with the side of the
bootable USB.

12. SOFTWARE PROGRAM USE TO CREATE
BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
3. Universal USB Installer
Specialized tool for creating bootable live
Linux OS. It has a predefined list of most of
the Linux distributions available. Give the
path of ISO image and USB flash drive you
want to boot from. Prepare a Live antivirus
rescue disk using it. A special option for this
is also given for reuse CD.

13. SOFTWARE PROGRAM USE TO CREATE
BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
4. YUMI
Yumi, short for Your Universal Multiboot
Installer. YUMI allow you to prepare the
bootable USB drive multiple operating
systems in one USB drive without formatting
it.

14. SOFTWARE PROGRAM USE TO CREATE
BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
5. UNetbootin
This tool is an exact clone of Universal USB
installer or you can also say Universal USB
installer is a clone of UNetbootin.
Create a bootable USB for any Linux
distribution.
If you are not using Windows as your host
operating system, then UNetbootin is an option
to go for. UNetbootin is available for Linux, iOS,
and Windows.
So if you are using Linux, most of the software's
listed here will not run where UNetbootin will
come to help.