Creating a bootable USB flash drive using UltraISO. How to make a bootable USB flash drive in UltraISO: step-by-step instructions

We recently received the following question:

“Hello, Maxim! Actually the question is this. A friend of mine has a bootable flash drive, how can I make an image of his flash drive and write it to mine?”

I decided to write a short note on how this can be done.

Here I will describe one of the methods that I tested.

First, I downloaded a program (link to the version with a Russian-language interface), which allows you to create and burn disk images.

For the option of copying a flash drive once, even a trial version is suitable.

Download the program, install it, run it with administrator rights. In the welcome window, select the button « Trial period» , and we see this window:

1 – this is the folder list area of ​​the new image project, the default project name is set from the current date and time. The project can be renamed using the context menu command.

2 – This is the content area of ​​the new project folders.

3 – PC disk list area.

4 – area of ​​the contents of PC disks.

The original flash drive is drive S, it is written on it boot image Ubuntu OS.

Move the mouse pointer to drive S, and drag it to area 2.

A confirmation window for transferring the list of files appears. The program interface is not translated entirely correctly, but this is not critical.

If it is not necessary to rewrite the entire source disk, then simply select necessary files for the image.

This results in a new image project:

If you need to configure any other project properties, you can find them through the menu “File” - “Properties”.

Appears standard window saving files, you can also select the image file type. Then the file is saved:

After this, the resulting file can be transferred to another PC or recorded later on another medium.

To record the image, insert new flash drive. If the image was created earlier, then it is necessary through the menu “File” - “Open” select the image file and open it.

In the new window you can immediately see that some inscriptions are not translated at all.

Near the inscription « Disk Drive» There is a drop-down list from which you need to select the desired flash drive.

I choose drive R– this is my new flash drive.

In line "Image file" You can double-check that the correct file is selected for recording. Recording method - I chose "USB-HDD", and for a flash drive there are options “USB-HDD+” and “USB-HDD+ v2”.

I tried all the options, but didn't see any difference. The built-in help in the program, judging by the copyright, was last updated in 2009, and about recording on flash drives or external HDDs there's nothing there. Perhaps these settings are needed for some specific image options, and information about them can be found on the software developers forum.

If necessary, the flash drive can be formatted immediately before recording - there is a button for this "Format".

When everything has been selected, press the button "Record".

A warning window appears indicating that all data will be erased so the user can double-check that they are recording the image to the correct media.

Click "Yes" and watch the recording process:

When the message appears “Recording complete!”, you can close all windows and check the flash drive to see if it is possible to start the PC from it.

This is how you can copy bootable USB flash drive, and also make another similar flash drive later, or optical disk, or even an external hard drive.

This program also allows you to record images created in other programs.

You are probably looking for: how to burn an image to a flash drive via UltraISO? Great! Then in this article we will create bootable usb-flash drive: format it and “throw away” the OS image. Let's start with the installation special program. Forward!

Installing the software

We “drive” the request “UltraISO” into Yandex. This is the name of the program we need. To download UltraISO for free, I recommend choosing ex.ua from the list of suggested sites. It silently provides the necessary files without unnecessary “brainwashing” and “Trojan surcharges”. By the way, a browser is convenient for such things.

Download installation file to the computer and click it, starting the installation. The installation will be easy, since you don’t need to change anything at each step, just click the “Next” button. And, of course, check the box next to “I accept the terms of the agreement.” At the end of the process, click “Finish”.

When you launch the program for writing to a flash drive, a window will appear asking you to buy it. But this is not necessary if you have a key. Otherwise, use the demo option and click “Trial period”.

Screenshot 1. Launching UltraISO

After this, the utility will launch. Let's work in it!

Preparing to burn an ISO image to a USB flash drive

Before you record Windows image to a flash drive via UltraISO, insert the flash drive into the USB connector of the computer. We transfer all the necessary files to the hard drive. Right-click on the flash device in Windows Explorer and select “Format” in context menu.

A formatting window opens. Here you can leave everything by default, but I set the file NTFS system: It supports large file sizes.

If you uncheck the box next to “Quick...” in the formatting methods, the process will take longer, but the content will actually be deleted.

At fast way Only the directory is cleared. In this case, new files are simply written over the old ones. But this is a topic for another article. If you haven’t had any glitches and don’t need to change the file system, then a quick cleanup is enough.

At the bottom of the window, click “Start”. The system warns that our further actions will erase all information on the flash drive. But we saved the necessary files on the hard drive. Isn't it? Then click “OK” and watch the continuation.

When finished, “Format Complete” will appear. The original window will remain, where near the “Start” button click “Close”. Let's move on to iso files.

We write the image to a USB flash drive

Now we’ll find out: how to burn a Windows 7 image to a flash drive via UltraISO. Do you have a different Windows? And we will consider your option.

Launch UltraISO. Let's get acquainted with the interface. Appearance reminds Windows Explorer, only double: one “sits” on the head of the other.

The bottom half shows the following: on the left are the computer folders, on the right are their contents.

Therefore, on the left we find the folder where we have the iso image of the operating system. If you do not have such an image, then download it from the Internet: – good tool for searching and downloading.

Let's return to the program. On the right, double-click on the file and observe its contents at the top of the utility: we see the future flash drive: what it would look like if this file was copied to it.

There will be folders on the left, and their contents on the right. The screenshot clearly shows the inscription at the top on a red background. This means that to write the image to a flash drive, you need to find another iso file of a smaller size or take a larger flash drive.

Let's do it. And again click on the image file. Now everything is OK.

How to burn Windows to a USB flash drive? In the menu, select “Boot => “Burn Hard Disk Image...”.
The recording window will open.

We select the “USB-HDD+” method, and opposite “Hide Boot Partition” should be “No”.

You can also do formatting here if you forgot to do it earlier. Click “Record”. Stop! Just a minute. One more useful option, which I specifically did not mark so as not to clutter the screenshot: in the “Disk Drive” line, you can check the “Check” box. Then everything will happen virtually: the program will allow you to imagine the process as it starts.

Then just uncheck the box and press the record button to record the real Windows image to a flash drive.
They will ask us again: are we confident in our actions? Let's remember: the necessary files were “dropped” onto the hard drive, USB flash drive formatted. Yes, we are ready! Click “OK”.

We observe the entire process in the information field of the program. When finished, we will see: “Recording complete.” Hooray! We managed to burn Windows onto a flash drive!

All we have to do is close the window with the “Back” button.

In addition to the OS, you can use the same method to write an image to a flash drive via UltraISO for videos, movies and games. But we will now continue with Windows.

Booting from a flash drive

To install the system, indicate in BIOS settings loading from a flash drive. You may ask: “What about me? After all, I was looking for: how to burn a Windows 8 image to a flash drive via UltraISO? I want to please you that the entire process described above is suitable for your system, as well as for those who have Windows 10 or XP.

First, let's enter the BIOS. We reboot and carefully monitor the process: before logging in, the following message should appear: “Press Del to enter SetUp.” At this moment, press Del on the keyboard. If another key is indicated, then press the one that is recommended.

Not all beginners succeed the first time, then you will have to reboot and practice.
In the BIOS, find the advanced settings “Advanced BIOS Features” and click Enter.

If you have not yet worked in such an environment (this is DOS), then pay attention to the prompts at the bottom of the monitor: all actions are performed only using the keyboard. The mouse is resting here. Navigation through the menu is performed using the keyboard arrows “Up” and “Down”.

Let's go deeper into the submenu. Select “First Boot Device" and press Enter again.

We make a mark opposite “USB-HDD”.

In “Second Boot Device” set “HDD”. We check that everything is correct.

We complete the changes and exit with the F10 key. Now after rebooting we can install Windows using a bootable USB flash drive.

More features of UltraISO

You can do many more useful things through the flash drive image program! Let's meet them!
The utility works with all major image formats and is capable of converting them to ISO. It writes discs and can extract the boot sector of the hard drive. You can even record an image hard drive to a flash drive via UltraISO.

UltraISO can:

• create CD, DVD images, USB flash drive, HD;
• emulate them;
• Using the original program.
• edit (insert files into the image and remove them from there).

Let's go through some of the functions.
Creating an image. How to burn an image to disk using UltraISO? Click on the menu “Tools => Create CD image...”.

The function window appears. Here we select the drive, if there are several of them. Check the “Ignore reading errors” checkbox. This is important when working with overwrite-protected discs, especially in UltraISO video formats. Change the folder for saving the iso file or leave the one that is offered by default. We don't touch the format. Although you can change it if necessary. Click “Make”.

After the process is completed, we will obtain the required image.

Note. If you couldn't find the one you created iso file, then start doing everything all over again, but in the image creation window, do not click the “Make” button, but look at the path to the file under the text “Save as”.

Emulation. First, go to “Options => Settings”.

Then in the settings window open the tab “ Virtual drive" and indicate the number of drives. Here they are called devices.

Then we do emulation. Go to “Tools => Mount to virtual drive...”.

We “drop” the image onto disk. Again, the “Tools” menu item helps us and click “Burn CD image...”. In the recording window, you need to click “Record”.

In the information field after the end of the process it will be written: “Burning completed successfully.”

You can easily master other functions on your own. If you encounter any difficulties, write in the comments. If necessary, I will be happy to supplement the article with the material you need, and also give personal advice By specific cases even by . The materials provided on this blog are intended to make your work on your PC easier. You will find many more here useful instructions for your computer activities. Meet me at next page, Colleagues!

All the best!

Quite often you need to record some image ISO disk to a flash drive, for example, when installing Windows, when creating an emergency flash drive, for a hard drive, etc.

Moreover, the same Windows installation from CD/DVD disc takes longer(and they fail more often than flash drives). Not to mention the fact that not every new PC/laptop has a disk drive installed. That is why using a flash drive is preferable (and more universal - it can be connected to any PC with a USB port).

In this article I will look at a couple of programs that can easily and quickly burn any disk image to ISO format to a flash drive.

Note: ISO is the most popular disk image format. More than half of all possible images are distributed in it.

Burning an ISO image to a USB flash drive

Method No. 1 - PowerISO

PowerISO - very powerful program for working with ISO images. Allows you to open them, edit them, extract files from them, add files to ISO images, compress them, burn them to CD/DVD disks and flash drives, etc. Also in PowerISO you can make an image of any of your disks, test it, get checksum(to assess whether the file is broken...).

In general, how to write an image to a flash drive using PowerISO.

1) The first thing you do is open the image. To do this, click the button "Open", or open the file menu, and then specify the image file. You can also use keystrokes Ctrl+O.

2) If the image was opened and the program did not issue any warnings, go to the menu "Tools". Select a feature such as "Create a bootable USB drive" (see arrows in the screenshot below).

3) In some cases, the program will ask you to give it administrator rights. We just agree: the program will restart and you will continue the recording process.

4) In the recording settings window, you need to:

1. in the column "USB drive" indicate your flash drive (Caution! Do not mix up the letters, because during the recording process, all data on the flash drive will be deleted;
2. burning method: if you are burning a bootable ISO image, select the burning method "USB - HDD"(for example, for recording images from Windows);
3. the file system column can be left as default;
4. next click "Start";
5. By the way, please note that at the bottom of the window there are links to instructions (several links, depending on the image being recorded).

Burn Settings // PowerISO

5) The program will warn you again that all data on the selected flash drive will be deleted!

1. loading your PC with extraneous tasks (I recommend turning off everything unnecessary: ​​at least torrents, games, video editors, and other programs that put a lot of stress on your PC);
2. size of the recorded image;
3. speed of the USB drive and the flash drive itself.

7) If the recording went well and without errors: you will see a message "USB recording drive completed successfully" , as in the screenshot below.

Method number 2 - UltraISO

UltraISO is the most famous program for working with ISO images. It can do almost everything the same with them as the first one: open, mount, edit and change, write bootable flash drives, external hard discs, CD/DVDs, etc.

It is as easy to use as the first one. Both, by the way, fully support the Russian language.

And so, let's start working in UltraISO

1) First, download (link above), install and run the program. There is nothing special to comment on here, except for one thing - run the program as an administrator (otherwise the option to write a USB flash drive may not be available!).

Note! To run as administrator: just click on the UltraISO program icon and select “Run as administrator” in the context menu, as shown in the screenshot below.

3) If the image has opened, open the menu (see screenshot below).

4) Then you need to set the recording settings:

1. disk drive: select the letter of your flash drive (the data on it will be deleted, so be careful and attentive!)
2. recording method: either USB-HDD+ or USB-HDD (this is for the record bootable media, which is what is required in most cases) . It’s quite difficult to say specifically what to choose; in most cases, USB-HDD+ works - but if suddenly your BIOS version will not see it, rewrite the flash drive in USB-HDD mode;
3. then click the button "Record" .

Note! IN normal mode UltraISO automatically formats the media to the FAT32 file system (even if the flash drive was previously NTFS). In order for NTFS to remain, you need to select ExpressBoot, then click on ExpressWrite. Bottom line: when you unpack the image onto a flash drive, the file system will remain unchanged.

6) If everything went well, you will see the following message in the program message: "Cache synchronization. Writing complete!" . Please make sure that there are no errors in the list of program messages, otherwise your boot image will simply throw an error when Windows installations(for example).

An example of a successful recording is shown in the screenshot below.

After burning the flash drive, they usually proceed to install Windows...

All the best to everyone.

Writing an image to a flash drive is a very common task for those who are still trying to choose a distribution or testing new ones. Linux versions. In Windows, we are accustomed to Rufus - this is one of the best, most intuitive and most popular utilities for writing disk images to a USB flash drive. It is rightfully considered the best and is used quite often. But, unfortunately, there is no version of this program for Linux; If you are a beginner and want to burn an image to a flash drive, you may encounter a problem with how this can be done.

Actually in the operating room Linux system have their own programs for recording an image on Linux flash drive, and there are quite a lot of them. In this article we will look at best analogues Rufus for Linux, and how to use them to solve your problems. Let's get straight to the list.

If you have already tried to ask on the forums how to burn an image to a flash drive in Ubuntu, then you have probably already heard the advice to use the dd utility. This is a simple console utility that allows you to transfer data byte-by-byte from one place to another, for example from a file to a flash drive.

Despite its simplicity, it is very popular among experienced users Linux because it can write data correctly in most cases. Using this utility is very simple. You need to specify the image file from where the data and partition on your flash drive will be copied, for example:

dd if=~/your_image.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=5M

Please note that there are two possible ways writing an image to a flash drive using dd. This is directly to the /dev/sdc flash drive or to the flash drive partition - /dev/sdc1. The first option usually works, but you can try the second one. Writing the image to a flash drive will take certain time, so you'll have to wait.

After copying is completed, the flash drive will be ready for use. But these are not all the ways to write an image to disk; there are programs with graphical interface, full-fledged analogues of Rufus Linux.

Unetbootin is a graphical utility with open source source code to write the image to a USB flash drive. It works completely differently. Unlike dd, here the flash drive must be mounted to the system and formatted into the correct file system. The utility will unpack the contents of the image onto the USB flash drive, and then add the necessary partition flags and install the bootloader so that everything works as it should.

You can choose an image from file system or download the system automatically via the Internet. Additionally, you can burn floppy disk images as well as hard drives. You can still leave free space on a flash drive so that you can write files there in the future. This is an excellent alternative to Rufus Linux and is used as often as Rufus on Windows.

You can install the program from the official repositories. On Ubuntu, to install, type:

sudo apt install unetbootin

This is the next generation of programs for burning an image to a Linux flash drive. Etcher is an open source utility that can run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. But it is distinguished by another feature - a modern graphical interface.

The utility works very simply. First you select the disk image you want to burn, then the flash drive, and then just press the button Write down(Flash!). The program will do everything itself. It's new, so it's not in the official repositories yet, but you can find a portable AppImage image on the official website.

4. YUMI

This is not just an alternative to Rufus Linux, but something more. With this utility, you can write not just one image to a flash drive, but several at once. Thus, you can create a multiboot flash drive with Linux or Windows systems.

The utility's interface is extremely simple, you can select a flash drive for recording, format it, and configure the boot menu for installed operating systems. Coming soon new version utilities for Linux.

5.Multisystem

Another open source utility similar to YUMI. It also allows you to write several operating system images onto a flash drive. Everything is done quickly and easily. Take a flash drive, select it in the program, then select several images and write them down.

Before the images are added, the program will install the Grub2 boot loader on the flash drive, so be careful when choosing a flash drive, otherwise you may damage the hard drive.

After that, all we have to do is write down the images and we can use them. In addition, the utility has many settings Grub bootloader and Brug, backup and flash drive recovery, as well as support for downloading the images you need from the Internet.

Conclusions

That's it. We looked at the best analogues of Rufus Linux; using each of these programs you can write your image to a USB flash drive. In most cases everything works quite well. For my purposes I use either dd or Unetbootin. What programs for ISO recording Are you using a Linux flash drive? Write in the comments!

For dessert, a video on how to use one of the most popular programs- Unetbootin: