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Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB stick with Etcher is an easy task to perform. Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port and Launch Etcher. Click on the Select image button and locate your Ubuntu.iso file. If you downloaded the file using a web browser then it should be stored in the Downloads folder located in your user account. Under the Source disc image (.iso) section in the Startup Disk creator application, click on the Other button to insert the Ubuntu.iso file. The Disk to use section will automatically detect and add your plugged-in USB drive. Click the Make Startup Disk button to start creating a bootable USB drive.
In Short: Create a bootable ubuntu usb drive or stick in microsoft windows operating system.
In this tutorial, we will show you the method to create a bootable ubuntu usb stick in windows operating sytem. Meanwhile, let's check out the minimum requirements or tools that you must have to create a bootable stick.
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- Minimum 2GB or larger USB drive.
- Windows 8 ( It will work perfectly even if you have Windows XP running)
- Rufus USB Bootable Maker Software.
- And ofcourse Ubuntu ISO file of your choice.
You need to download the latest version of Ubuntu operating system and you can get your copy of distro from this link.
Well at this point, we assume that you have rufus software installed in your windows operating system along with Ubuntu ISO file.
How To Create A Bootable Ubuntu USB Stick In Windows
- Launch Rufus
- Insert your USB stick or pendrive
- Select your usb stick.
- If you are installing ubuntu in latest hardware configuration then it's better to keep the Partition scheme and target system type set as MBR partition scheme for UEFI. However, It is recommended to keep it as MBR Partition Scheme for BIOS or UEFI if you are going to install it in older hardware configuration.
To select the Ubuntu ISO file, click the optical drive icon alongside the enabled Create a bootable disk using field. This will open a file requester from which you can navigate to, and select, the ISO file.
Leave other option to default mode and proceed for the next step. Meanwhile, you will be alerted with the message saying that Ubuntu ISO is an ISOHybrid image. Choose the option 'Keep Write in ISO Image' and click on OK to continue. Now wait for the completion of the process and start booting from your USB 😉
Make sure that your USB stick have enough space and not any important files.
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Ubuntu is the most popular desktop Linux distribution since 2010. You can do a lot of tasks with this lovely Linux distro in a GUI based environment like Windows. That is the reason why Ubuntu is favored by millions of users across the globe. When the Windows machine was broken/crashed or want to make a dual boot on a Linux machine, you can always complete such a task on Ubuntu.
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- Minimum 2GB or larger USB drive.
- Windows 8 ( It will work perfectly even if you have Windows XP running)
- Rufus USB Bootable Maker Software.
- And ofcourse Ubuntu ISO file of your choice.
You need to download the latest version of Ubuntu operating system and you can get your copy of distro from this link.
Well at this point, we assume that you have rufus software installed in your windows operating system along with Ubuntu ISO file.
How To Create A Bootable Ubuntu USB Stick In Windows
- Launch Rufus
- Insert your USB stick or pendrive
- Select your usb stick.
- If you are installing ubuntu in latest hardware configuration then it's better to keep the Partition scheme and target system type set as MBR partition scheme for UEFI. However, It is recommended to keep it as MBR Partition Scheme for BIOS or UEFI if you are going to install it in older hardware configuration.
To select the Ubuntu ISO file, click the optical drive icon alongside the enabled Create a bootable disk using field. This will open a file requester from which you can navigate to, and select, the ISO file.
Leave other option to default mode and proceed for the next step. Meanwhile, you will be alerted with the message saying that Ubuntu ISO is an ISOHybrid image. Choose the option 'Keep Write in ISO Image' and click on OK to continue. Now wait for the completion of the process and start booting from your USB 😉
Make sure that your USB stick have enough space and not any important files.
Related
Ubuntu is the most popular desktop Linux distribution since 2010. You can do a lot of tasks with this lovely Linux distro in a GUI based environment like Windows. That is the reason why Ubuntu is favored by millions of users across the globe. When the Windows machine was broken/crashed or want to make a dual boot on a Linux machine, you can always complete such a task on Ubuntu.
Method 1: Create Windows 10 Bootable USB on Ubuntu Linux (GUI Interface)
Although Linux was originally developed for text environment, it is now a great desktop computing box with GUI interface. So the first part of this tutorial is to use a GUI program to make a bootable Windows 10 USB, which a lot of easier for Linux newbies.
Step 1: On Linux machine running Ubuntu (preferably Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS or Ubuntu 18.10), open a web browser and download a copy of Windows 10 ISO file from Microsoft official website. Linux ubuntu server.
Step 2: Download Brasero (ISO burning tool) and install it on your Ubuntu machine. You can also do this from within Ubuntu, by clicking the Activities heading in Ubuntu and searching for the app. If found, it will show you a link to the Ubuntu software installer. Click through the main listing and click on Install. The installer will guide you through the rest of the process, and you may have to enter your Ubuntu password for the installation to begin. Once installed, click on the Launch button to fire up Brasero.
Step 3: Insert a USB drive with about 6 GB of free space for the ISO disk image of Windows 10. Be sure to back up any data you have on the stick before you use it to create the bootable USB in case it is formatted to a new file system like NTFS, in which case your data is gone forever.
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Step 4: In the Brasero interface, click on Burn Image in the left panel. In the next window, select your Windows 10 ISO file from the dropdown in the Select a Disk Image to Write section. In the Select a Disk to Write To, choose the USB drive you inserted.
Step 5: If you click the properties button on this page, you can tweak various burn settings. If you don't know what to do, you can just go directly and click on Burn. When the disk is ready, Brasero automatically does a checksum match to make sure the Windows 10 ISO file matches the one you burned to the USB disk.
Brasero is not the only program that is capable of creating Windows bootable USB on Linux, there are also a few other well-known ones like Etcher, WoeUSB and UNetbootin.
Method 2: Make Windows 10 Bootable USB on Ubuntu Linux (Text Command)
Well, not all Linux mahine comes with a GUI interface, especially Linux servers. So the second method we share in here is use text command on Linux to create a bootable Windows 10 USB. So it is an univeral method being applied to all Linux OS, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Centos, Redhat, Open SUSE.
Step 1: On Linux machine, open the Terminal utility.
Step 2: Download Windows 10 ISO with wget command and insert USB drive into the machine.
Step 3: Find the USB drive name with this command: lsblk
Step 4: Now format the USB to FAT32, whic is the required file system for installing Windows OS: mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdh1 (sdh1 is the USB drive name found in step 3.)
Step 5: After formatting, we should mount the downloaded Windows 10 file: mount /Path/to/Win10.iso /mnt
Step 6: Write ISO image to USB: dd if=[windows.iso] of =/dev/sdh1
The process would much more difficult for creating UEFI bootable USB and it is not recommended doing this via terminal commands. Instead, GUI program is much more comfortable to go with.
A Word of Caution about Handling ISO Files
If you're not familiar with ISO files, for the purpose of creating the Windows 10 bootable USB on Ubuntu, it's enough to know that it is simply a non-compressed container with files that are required to install Windows 10 from scratch. But all the files inside are critical, so even if one of them gets corrupted, you may not be able to install Windows 10 properly.
The second thing to consider is what tool you're using to burn the ISO to USB. Brasero is just one of many available online, but many of them have a poor burn success rate. That means you might have to burn the ISO to USB a couple of times before the checksum validates it as a true copy of the original ISO disk image file. If you repeatedly see this problem, it might be worth spending a few dollars on a premium ISO burning tool like UUByte ISO Editor.
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The most important requirement is that the ISO be burned properly to create bootable Windows 10 media that works. That's the whole purpose of this exercise. Choose the right tools, make sure you only get the Windows 10 ISO file from Microsoft, and you won't have to worry about wasting time burning multiple times. If all is good, you can create a Windows 10 bootable USB in Ubuntu in just a few minutes.