#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 10 UEFI INSTALL#

Apart from the regular installer, there is also a portable version if you donвЂ™t want to install it on your Windows machine.Дў. To start off, download Rufus from its official website. Additionally, Rufus supports creating bootable drives for both Windows and Linux.ДЎ. The best thing about Rufus is that it is filled with features and you can select whether you want to create a UEFI drive or Legacy BIOS drive. You can also use a free third-party tool called Rufus to create the UEFI bootable drive. Method #2 вЂ“ Use Rufus to Create UEFI Bootable Windows 10 USB Drive You are done creating the UEFI bootable USB drive in Windows 10. Close the tool by clicking on the вЂњXвЂќ icon appearing at the top right corner. After completing the creation process, you will see вЂњStatus: Backup completedвЂќ message under the progress bar. The tool starts to create the bootable Windows 10 USB drive. Click on the вЂњErase USB DeviceвЂќ button to continue.ДЎ0. As soon as you click on the Begin Copying button, the tool will warn that the USB drive will be formatted. If not, plug in the USB drive, click on the вЂњrefreshвЂќ button, select the USB drive from the drop-down menu and click on the вЂњBegin copyingвЂќ button.Д©. If youвЂ™ve already plugged in the USB drive, it will show up in the drop-down menu. In the next screen, since we want to create a UEFI bootable USB drive, click on the вЂњUSB deviceвЂќ button.ДЁ. The above action will add the file path to the tool.

#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 10 UEFI ISO#

Go to where youвЂ™ve stored the Windows 10 ISO file, select it and click on the вЂњOpenвЂќ button.Д¦. In the main screen, you need to add ISO file. After installing the tool, find it or search for it in the start menu and open it.Д¤. Make sure that the USB drive you are using is at least 8GB.ДЈ. Plug the USB drive into an empty USB port on your computer.

#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 10 UEFI HOW TO#

In case you want to read our step by step tutorial about how to do a clean install of Windows 10 next by using Bootable USB created by following above steps, click here.2.

After the download is complete and the Bootable media is created, select Finish.

Connect your USB flash drive, click/tap on the Refresh drive list link, select the USB flash drive, and click/tap on Next.

We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted.

A blank USB or DVD (and DVD burner) with at least 4 GB of space if you want to create media.

Now choose USB Flash Drive option in the next screen and click on next.

Check the screenshot below that shows how one can choose these options.

Choose the language, edition, and architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) for Windows 10.

Select Create installation media for another PC.

#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 10 UEFI PC#

(You need to be an Administrator on the PC to run it.)

Run the tool, if you didnвЂ™t already select Run above.

When youвЂ™re asked, select Run (or choose to Save the tool if you donвЂ™t want to run it now). If your PC is a 64-bit operating system, select Download tool now (64-bit version).

#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB WINDOWS 10 UEFI SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD#

If your PC is a 32-bit operating system, on the Software download page, select Download tool now (32-bit version). There are two versions of the tool, one for a вЂњ32-bit operating systemвЂќ and one for a вЂњ64-bit operating system.вЂќ To find out which you have, go to Start, type Control panel, select System and security, and then, under System, look at the value for System type. So, as you can understand it works only for the official Windows 10 general release build.ДЇind the media creation tool on the Software download page. It is quite easy to use and if you check our tutorial on updating to Windows 10 and downloading official ISOs, we have also shared steps to create Bootable USB drive using Media Creation Tool. Using official Media Creation Tool (Method 2):

New volume label: Any name that suites your tasteД§) Tap / Click on start and click ok on the next prompt to confirmДЁ) Rufus will start creating the Bootable USB Drive and it may take around 5 minutes to accomplish this task or even more.

Check, Create extended label and icon files.

Cluster size: Default value (4096 bytes).

Partition scheme and target system type: MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI-CSM under.

Click/tap on the Disk icon to navigate to and select your 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 10 ISO file.

Device option: Select the USB flash drive you want to format.

exe file, and click/tap on Yes if prompted by UAC.Д¦) Set Rufus using the settings below which are valid for both 32-Bit and 64-Bit Windows 10 ISO files.

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