Ever since flash drives were firmly introduced into use, optical discs have been safely forgotten. They began to replace the latter, even in areas where drives traditionally "held the defenses." Take at least the installation of the operating system. Yes, you can use the same CDs for this purpose, but today it is difficult to find computers that do not support the option to boot from Flash.
In this regard, there is always a demand for programs that allow you to create various options for boot disks and flash drives. Let's figure out how to use UltraISO, because this is not only one of the most popular, but also one of the most convenient and effective programs of this class.
The application was not least recognized due to the fact that there is a basic and completely free version, which for our users is sometimes a decisive aspect when choosing software. The only limitation when working with the program in trial mode is the maximum file size, but in most cases it is not fatal at all.
So how to use UltraISO if you need to create a boot image?
We need the program itself, which must be installed on the computer. In addition, you need an installation disk with the necessary operating system or some application. You need to remember that UltraISO MAC supports, and with its help you can create bootable disks even for "apple" computers. However, we will consider the case of Windows, since this operating system is most common on the computers of our users.
Insert the disk into the drive, wait for its definition. Then you should be running the Ultra ISO program. In the menu bar, select the “Tools” item, and in the drop-down list, click on “Create CD image”. In the dialog box that appears, select your drive, the future location of the disk image, as well as the format of the created file. We recommend using the standard ISO file type. Click on the "Make" button, and after a few minutes you are the owner of the finished image.
So, this is all clear. After that, we need a flash drive with a size of 4GB, which should be formatted. This process is best done in the FAT32 file system. We start the program again, look in its main window for the image you have recently recorded. We select it by clicking on the icon with the left mouse button, after which we are looking for the "Self-loading" item in the toolbar . Having opened it, we click on “Burn the image of the hard disk”.
Before using UltraISO to write it to a USB flash drive, we carefully check the paths to all files in order to avoid errors and loss of information. For beginners, it is generally better to disconnect all flash drives (with the exception of the one to which recording will go) from the computer. Disconnected and checked? Then we click on the “Record” button, after which we wait for some time, which depends on the power of your PC.
Actually, the creation of a bootable removable disk is over. You can restart the computer, set the BIOS to boot from it and install the system. We hope that the article on how to use UltraISO has been useful to you.