The article will discuss two methods of writing a disk image to a flash card: using the convenient UltraISO program and using the command line. So, how to write an image to a USB flash drive?
How to burn an image to a flash drive using UltraISO
Before proceeding to the installation of the OS, it is necessary to determine the type of media that will be used for this. Recently, this issue seems to most people very important, as there are more and more compact netbooks that are not equipped with an optical drive, and large-capacity flash drives are becoming an increasingly convenient tool for many users. They are able to cope with the tasks of a boot disk with the OS. In general, installing the system in this way is a faster, but also more complex option.
After receiving the disk image with the OS, the question arises, but how to write the image to a USB flash drive or other medium? First, install the UltraISO program. After installation, you can run the application. Before proceeding with any manipulations, you should insert a USB flash drive into which the recording will be performed. Open the disk image using the specified program, and then move to "Bootable" - Write Disk Image. In the special field, you must select the name of the medium, because several of them can be connected. As a recording method, select USB-HDD.
Now that everything is checked, you can click Record. At the end of the process, the program will notify you of this, and the flash drive will be ready.
How to burn an image to a USB flash drive using the command line
In this case, to prepare the image, you should connect the USB flash drive to the port. After that, you can call the command line. You can do this in different ways, the user selects. At the command prompt, enter the special diskpart command. This command launches a system utility for managing disks. This will clear the contents of the flash drive, create a partition that becomes active, formatted, and then will be ready to record the image. After that, it remains to place the bootloader files on the disk, which will make the installation disk capable of being detected as a removable drive, and this will allow you to install an operating system from it. It is worth considering all these actions in more detail, so that it becomes clear how to write a disk image to a USB flash drive. After loading the diskpart system utility, you will see the DISKPART> prompt. The list disk command allows you to see the list of disks on a given computer. After selecting the select disc command with a number that represents the serial number of the disk that is the flash drive, you can select this disk to implement on it all the other commands needed when working with diskpart. You should be careful when entering the parameters, since you can make a mistake with the hard drive, which will cause data loss, because this leads to formatting. The clean command allows you to delete all information and partitions from a flash drive. Using the create partition primary command, we create a new partition on the drive. With the select partition 1 command, we select this disk for subsequent manipulations. The active command makes it active. You can format the disk using format fs = NTFS. With the assign command, we initiate a drive connection, which will open the autorun window, and you can exit the utility using exit. Now it remains only to write the image to the USB flash drive, for this you need to copy the bootloader to it.
After preparing the flash drive on this media, you should copy the files from the image. After restarting the system, you can see that the installation process is loading from the USB flash drive.
That's all about the question of how to write an image to a USB flash drive. This is nothing complicated, the main thing is to adhere to the indicated sequence of actions and be as careful as possible. The usability of a bootable flash drive will be appreciated by you.