Creating a bootable USB flash drive in UltraISO. How to create a bootable flash drive image in UltraISO - instructions
This article describes the key feature of the UltraIso program. A bootable USB flash drive can be created without any problems. It is the algorithm for performing this operation that will be discussed further.
In what cases can you not do without such a flash drive?
First, let's define those cases when we cannot do without this important feature of UltraIso. A bootable flash drive allows you to install an operating system on a computer that does not have a CD-ROM drive. First of all, these are some models of ultrabooks and all netbooks. But, again, this does not mean that this method cannot be applied to a stationary personal computer (not every system unit now has a CD reader) or a laptop. In general, this is a universal solution for all cases. All modern computers, without exception, are equipped with a USB connector. So there will be no problems connecting a flash drive. In this case, the installation speed of the operating system will be many times higher. Data transfers faster from a flash drive than from a CD. Therefore, this installation method is the future.
Choosing an image
Before you make a bootable UltraIso flash drive, you need to select the correct installation version of the operating system. Its demo version can be downloaded from the Internet. It is recommended to use the *.iso format (that is, the file must have this extension). If necessary, it can be made from a CD. To do this, install it in the drive, launch UltraIso, press “F8” and, following the instructions, create a copy on the hard drive of the installation version of the operating system. It is important that the installer source is autoloadable. Although rare, there are times when this important option is missing from the installation version. Therefore, you must definitely pay attention to this.
Which version of the program is better?
UltraIso comes in two versions. The first one is demo and free. Some functions are not available, but the ability to create bootable flash drives is present. The second version is paid. It has more options, but to create such a flash drive, its purchase is not justified. Therefore, most users are recommended to take the first modification of UltraIso.
Installing UltraIso
First you need to download and install UltraIso. without this stage it is impossible. First you need to download this program from the official website. Other versions are not recommended to be used, as their performance leaves much to be desired. Then run the downloaded installer. Following the instructions of the wizard, install this program on your local computer. There is no need to perform any additional settings to create a bootable drive. After this, UltraIso is ready for use.
Creating a bootable flash drive using UltraIso
How to create a bootable USB flash drive? After installation is complete, the order of performing this operation will be as follows.
Once the manipulations are complete, the process can be considered complete, and now you can easily install the operating system from the flash drive. Do not forget that the size of the flash drive must be larger than the operating system installer. That is, if the image occupies 4.4 GB, then the drive in this case must be at least 8 GB. This nuance must be taken into account without fail. Otherwise, it will not be possible to create a bootable drive, and the operating system will display a corresponding message.
Preparing to install the operating system
At the next stage you will no longer have to use the UltraIso program. The bootable USB flash drive is ready. But in order to start the operating system installation process, you need to correctly configure the BIOS of your personal computer. We install the prepared drive in any of the rectangular connectors of the personal computer. Next, when you turn it on, you need to pay attention to the inscription: Press X to setup. In this case, “X” will be the key that you need to press to enter the basic settings of your personal computer. If at the hardware testing stage the logo of the motherboard manufacturer is displayed, then you need to press “Esc”. It is not always possible to figure out the login key the first time and have time to enter the BIOS. Therefore, if you did not have time to click, and the operating system began loading, then you need to restart your personal computer and repeat the operation of entering the basic settings, already knowing the necessary information. Then, using the navigation keys (they have arrows on them), go to the Boot menu item. In it we find the First Boot item. Point the marker at it using the down arrow. At the next stage, using PgUp and PgDn, we indicate to the PC that the first boot source is, for example, a bootable Windows 7 flash drive. UltraIso has already placed the image on it, and it is ready for the installation process. The volume label will be the same as previously specified. Once this manipulation has been completed, press F10. Then you should be asked to save the changes. We answer it positively. After this, the personal computer will restart and boot from the flash drive will begin.
Installation
The installation process from such an operating system drive is identical to exactly the same procedure from a CD made in the same UltraIso program. The Windows bootable USB flash drive is an exact copy of it. When the PC starts booting, press any key when the corresponding message appears. Then set the language, country, monetary units and click “Next”. At the next stage, click on “Install”. We select the one for which we have a key. Then we agree to the terms of the license agreement. To do this, check the box at the bottom of the window and click the “Next” button. At the next stage, select the installation type: complete or update. Then select the logical partition on which the OS will be installed. If necessary, format it using the appropriate command. Further, all operations are performed automatically until you need to set the PC name. Enter it and click “Next”. If necessary, set a password for protection. Then you need to enter the registration key. You can skip this step, but then you will have a trial version for 31 days. Then select security settings, time and system date. Then we set up a local area network. At the final stage, drivers and application programs are installed.
Resume
This article describes one of the most important features of the UltraIso program. Using it, a bootable flash drive can be created without any problems, and even a novice user can solve this problem. To do this, just follow the previously described steps, and you should not have any problems with this procedure. So, feel free to take it and do it.
A bootable USB flash drive or, more simply, a regular flash drive on which the operating system is stored, for installation on a computer. DVD\CD discs can also be used as a storage medium, but only if there is a working or existing DVD\CD drive.
Using a USB flash drive is more convenient, does not take up much space, is convenient for storage and is less susceptible to mechanical stress, unlike DVD\CD. The question is, what is a bootable USB flash drive for? The answer is simple.
A bootable USB flash drive with an image of the Windows operating system recorded on it will allow you to quickly restore the functionality of the operating system in the event of failures in its operation, if this cannot be done by other means. Other methods mean restoring the operating system from previously created restore points or restoring from a backup. I would like to immediately tell you where you can get the original image of the operating system. To do this, follow the highlighted link. If this information on original images is not enough, use a search engine.
A bootable USB flash drive will also be useful for getting acquainted with the operating system of interest without installing it on your computer. You write the image you are interested in onto a USB flash drive, insert it into a USB port and boot the computer from this device, without reinstalling the computer’s operating system. After testing, return the boot settings to their initial state. To write ISO images to a USB flash drive, let's get acquainted with the UltraISO program, a free, Russian version. UltraISO is a powerful program for creating, editing and converting various CD\DVD image formats.
System requirements: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
At first glance, the UltraISO program seems quite simple, but in fact the list of its capabilities is very large for such a light and compact utility:
working with disk images: editing, converting, burning them to physical media;
checking previously recorded disc contents;
unpacking and testing compressed disk images;
extracting boot sectors of the hard disk and floppy disks;
using the created images as virtual disks;
creating a multiboot “flash drive” for subsequent installation of Windows, Linux or other operating systems (including USB-HDD and USB-ZIP modes) on a computer or laptop.
Obvious advantages include the choice of disc recording speed, recording method, and activation of verification after completion. The image size that UltraISO can work with is limited to 50 GB. The average user is unlikely to notice such a limitation (the only exception being avid gamers). But for them, we can recommend downloading UltraISO Prmium or paying for the paid version of the program, in which the upper limit is already set at 2 TB. (quote from the download site http://ultraiso-ezb.ru/)
More than 30 popular formats are supported: .iso, mds, nrg, mdf, cue, img, bin. etc.
The official developer is EZB Systems.
Download UltraISO from the official website.
Download UltraISO and install
UltraISO is installed.
If you need another program language, install the required one. Section "Settings" + "Language", then select the desired language.
Create a bootable USB flash drive in UltraISO
To create a bootable USB flash drive with an ISO image of the desired Windows operating system, first of all we need the image itself, which must be prepared in advance. I placed a link on how and where to find the original ISO image at the beginning of the article. (In addition, the OS image could have been created by you from the installed operating system.) Accordingly, a USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 4 GB.
You can format the flash drive in advance into the FAT-32 file system, or format it immediately before recording the image, directly in the UltraISO program, the program itself will tell you the procedure, you just need to follow it. Next, run the programs as administrator.
The "Explorer" program will open, where we find the desired ISO image, select it, and click the "Open" button.
The ISO image will be loaded into the UltraISO program and will appear on the right side of the window.
Select the "Boot" section and in the menu that opens, give the command "Burn Hard Disk Image". Naturally, the USB flash drive must be inserted into the USB connector of the computer and have a capacity of at least 4 GB, as mentioned earlier.
The “Write Disk Image” window will open, in Russian translation “Write a disk image”, where your flash drive will be shown. Make sure you select the correct disk for recording by checking the drive letter and its size. In the “Check” column, check the box so that after burning the ISO image, the recording will be checked for errors. In the "Recording method" section, you must set "USB-HDD+". If the USB flash drive was previously formatted in FAT-32 format, click the "Write" button; if it is not formatted, you should perform this action. Click the "Format" button.
We remember that when formatting a disk, all traces of previously recorded files on USB will be erased, so you need to copy everything you need in advance to your computer’s hard drive or other storage device; if you haven’t done this right away, cancel the formatting and take steps to save the necessary information. If everything is ready, select the formatting format FAT 32 and click the "Start" button.
We will receive a warning that formatting will destroy ALL data on this disk. Click the "OK" button if everything is saved, if not, click "Cancel".
When formatting is complete, a notification will be displayed indicating that the task has been completed.
We return to the “Write Disk Image” window, where we click the “Burn” button
And again the program warns. Click the "Yes" button.
The Windows ISO image burning process has begun.
If the checkbox is not checked for recording, the result will be checked immediately upon completion.
The times when a computer booted exclusively from a disk drive, due to the absence of a hard drive in its design, have long since sunk into oblivion, but boot disks have by no means lost their relevance. They only began to be used less frequently and for other purposes. This publication aims to prove that creating a bootable flash drive is a completely feasible task for UltraISO, and also to describe this process as thoroughly as possible.
A bootable flash drive can be created via UltraISO
It is simply impossible to imagine a computer without a hard drive; such things simply do not exist in nature. Therefore, the Windows operating system, for example, is installed on the hard drive and is loaded from it when the computer is turned on. This means that a startup disk is not needed at all.
Such disks are used in two cases.
First: you can boot from it and, if it has the appropriate software, restore crashed Windows or save data on a crumbling hard drive. There are plenty of distributions of this kind of resuscitators on the network. By starting the computer from them, it becomes possible to format or modify any partition of the hard drive (from Windows, access to the system partition is limited), copy data from a non-working machine when the same flash drive is most often used, test the hardware, and achieve other goals.
The second, probably most important use of a bootable flash drive is the actual installation of a new operating system. Clearly, a computer without an Axis is nothing more than a pile of hardware. The system is installed completely if it is not possible to restore the old one, damaged for some reason, as well as on a newly purchased computer when its hard drive is empty.
Problems with CDs have led to reasonable people trying to avoid using them. They really were know-how at one time, but the cheapening of the technical processes for their production led to an unacceptable loss of quality. Yes, if CDs are made using gold and using the appropriate technology, then it is guaranteed that data can be stored on them for more than a hundred years. In practice, this time does not exceed several months, or years, if you store them like a sultan’s bride. Therefore, the question of how to make a bootable flash drive became the only correct one (no one remembers about CDs anymore).
What to write on a bootable UltraISO flash drive
By and large, it makes no difference to the program what exactly will be recorded. The process boils down to writing a pre-prepared image to disk, which UltraISO considers flash memory. But to create a bootable version, it is necessary that the recording source be an image of the starting disk.
The fair question “where to get it”, as usual, will be answered by Google, or Yandex, as you like. On the Internet you can find images of any “reanimators” and operating systems, including cracked ones. But here you need to be careful. Not everything that is found freely on the Internet is suitable for recording and may contain viruses and worms.
Therefore, to create a bootable UltraISO flash drive, it is best to take an already verified image from friends or use a friend’s working CD to burn it. If this option is not possible, then Google can help.
UltraISO and how to create a bootable USB flash drive from an image
It should be noted right away that the popularity of UltraISO among users may not be entirely justified. There are programs that perform the same functions and, as many claim, are more convenient to use. Moreover, this software is absolutely free. But due to habit, many people use UltraISO, and even the well-known Gates is inconvenient to talk about paid programs in the post-Soviet space.
So, it is assumed that there is an image and the program itself is installed, and in the USB connector there is a flash memory of at least 4 GB in size.
IMPORTANT. The memory capacity may be smaller, but most often images of various operating systems created from DVD are recorded. Therefore four “hectares” will be needed.
You can first format the flash drive in the FAT32 system, although this happens in any case when recording.
Having launched the program, we get to the main window, where we click the “Open” item in the “File” menu and specify the image file. Most often, a Windows 7 bootable USB flash drive is created using UltraISO, so the file you are looking for will be called win7.iso or similar.
Considering that a flash drive for UltraISO is just a disk, select “Burn hard disk image” in the “Boot” menu and set the required parameters in the window that appears. Here you need to specify the target disk (flash memory), the recording method set by default to USB+HDD+, and the image name will already be specified. All that remains is to start the process with the record button and enjoy the confident operation of the program.
There is no image, but there is a distribution kit on CD/DVD
If you have a CD, there is no need to first create its image, although this is possible and quite often in demand. You can create a bootable USB flash drive from the distribution directly, bypassing this step. The algorithm of actions is no different from that described above, with one exception. Instead of the “Open” item, in the “File” menu you need to select “Open CD/DVD”. Next we proceed as in the case of the image.
There is only a folder with the copied distribution
In this case, you need to go through the chain “File”, then “New”, then “Bootable CD/DVD image”. In the window that appears, you should specify the bootfix.bin file, located for Windows 7 and 8 in the boot folder. At the bottom of the window that appears, select the folder containing the installation files. You need to select the files (not the folder) and drag them to the top of the window. Further, everything is as usual: “Boot”, “Write a hard disk image” and so on with one exception. The Image File Name field must be left blank.
It was previously mentioned that UltraISO has many alternatives for creating bootable flash drives. But people who are accustomed to working with this particular software will never give up on it. After all, this is a truly reliable application that has won the sympathy of a huge number of users.
Increasingly, modern laptops are being produced without an optical drive. Over time, floppy drives and optical disks will disappear altogether, just as floppy disks have already disappeared. Due to the lack of a drive, it is impossible to install the operating system from the disk. In this case, you have to use bootable for installation. In this article we will talk about how to make a bootable USB flash drive using UltraISO.
Step No. 1. Create a boot disk image.
In order to create a bootable USB flash drive, we need a boot disk image in ISO format. If you already have an ISO image, then you can skip this step and go straight to the next step.
Insert the boot disk and run the UltraISO program. Next, on the toolbar, you need to click on the “Create CD image” button or press the F8 button on the keyboard.
After this, the “Create CD/DVD image” window will open in front of you. Here you need to select the folder in which you want to save the resulting image. You also need to make sure that the created image will be saved in ISO format.
Once the process is complete, you will see a message asking you to open the created ISO image.
Click “YES” and proceed to creating a bootable USB flash drive via UltraISO.
Step No. 2. Create a bootable USB flash drive using UltraISO.
In order to make a bootable USB flash drive via UltraISO, we need to open the disk image. If you clicked on the “Yes” button after completing the creation of the ISO image, then you already have a disk image open. If not, then you can open the disk image you need using the "Open" button.
After opening the disk image, files and folders should appear in the UltraISO program window.
After this, a window will open in front of you through UltraISO. Here you need to select a flash drive and click on the “Burn” button.
It should be noted that when creating a bootable flash drive, all data located on the flash drive will be deleted. A special window warns about this. To start the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive, click on the “Yes” button.
After completing this process, you will receive a bootable USB flash drive ready to use.
In addition to UltraISO, you can use other programs to create a bootable USB flash drive. For example, Novicorp WinToFlash, UNetBootin, Windows7 USB/DVD Download Tool and others.
The new version of Windows, which, as we know, will be the last, has received a number of advantages over its predecessors. It has new functionality, it has become more convenient to work with and it has simply become more beautiful. However, as you know, to install Windows 10 you need the Internet and a special bootloader, but not everyone can afford to download several gigabytes (about 8) of data. This is why you can create a bootable USB flash drive or boot disk with Windows 10 so that the files are always with you.
UltraISO is a program for working with virtual drives, disks and images. The program has very extensive functionality, and it is rightfully considered one of the best in its field. This is where we will make our bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive.
How to create a bootable USB flash drive or disk with Windows 10 in UltraISO
To create a bootable USB flash drive or disk, Windows 10 must first be downloaded to a media creation tool.
Now we launch what we just downloaded and follow the installer’s instructions. In each new window, click “Next”.
After this, you must select “Create installation media for another computer” and click the “Next” button again.
In the next window, select the architecture and language of your future operating system. If you can’t change anything, then simply uncheck “Use recommended settings for this computer”
After that, specify the path for your ISO file and click “Save”.
After this, Windows 10 will begin downloading and saving it to an ISO file. All you have to do is wait until all the files are downloaded.
Now, after Windows 10 has successfully loaded and saved to an ISO file, we need to open the downloaded file in the UltraISO program.
After that, select the “Boot” menu item and click on “Burn hard disk image” to create a bootable USB flash drive.
Select your media in the window that appears (1) and click Write (2). Agree with everything that pops up and then just wait for the recording to complete. During recording, the error “You need to have administrator rights” may pop up. In this case, you need to look at the following article:
If you want to create a bootable Windows 10 disk, then instead of “Burn hard disk image” you should select “Burn CD image” from the toolbar.
In the window that appears, select the desired drive (1) and click “Burn” (2). After this, we wait for the recording to complete.
Of course, in addition to creating a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive, you can also create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive, which you can read about in the article at the link below:
With these simple steps we can create a bootable disk or bootable USB flash drive for Windows 10. Microsoft understood that not everyone will have access to the Internet, and specially provided for the creation of an ISO image, so this is quite simple to do.