FlashBoot is a relatively free utility that makes it easy to create bootable USB media. The utility has several modes, is able to install a full-fledged operating system on a "portable" medium. The program is capable, among other things, of creating an image of a physical drive.
The interface is simple, accessible to everyone, made in the form of step-by-step instructions. Before you begin, you must create a download disk, then specify the source. In the field of this, we select the medium for recording and wait until this process is completed.
The new version of the utility works with all operating systems. Windows systems, including 8.1. Compatible with equipment of any size and type. The free version only works for 30 days.
Download for free the full Russian version of FlashBoot from the official site without registration and SMS.
System requirements
- Supported OS: Windows 10, XP, 8, 7, 8.1, Vista
- Bit depth: 64 bit, 32 bit, x86
I will show 4 ways to help you make a bootable USB flash drive. Usually it is needed for installing Windows or for a program if it works before the system boots.
There are many programs for solving this problem, but sometimes you can get by with the system tools. I will provide instructions that will help you make a bootable USB flash drive with any Windows version or program. 4 ways, 2 universal and 2 for specific OS.
But before that, you need to prepare. You will need:
- Flash drive with a capacity of 4 GB or more.
- Image ( iso) operating system or a program for which a bootable USB flash drive will be created.
Before creating a bootable flash drive, be sure to format it to avoid errors.
Bootable flash drive in Windows OS
Can do without extraneous programs and do everything in Windows. To do this, you will have to use a number of commands. I will demonstrate only the most necessary of them.
Clear your device of all files first. To do this, go to the execution line ( Win+R) in the Start >> Run menu, and then enter the command diskpart as in the image below.
In the window that appears, enter list disk to see all devices for further work with them.
In my example, there were 2 devices:
- 0 - hard drive.
- 1 - flash drive.
Distinguish a flash drive from hard drives very simple in size. Select it as a team select disk 1.
Be careful, instead of 1 there may be another number.
After that, you need to create a primary partition. To do this, enter create partition primary.
Select a section by typing select partition 1 and activate it with the command active.
Then set the drive letter ( automatically) by entering assign and finish the job exit.
Now be sure to download the files to the USB flash drive unpacked. If you just copy the iso file, nothing will work.
If you don’t understand something, you can watch a video on how to do it using a real example.
Bootable flash drive for Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Download and install the USB/DVD Download Tool. It is made specifically to work with Windows 7 files and is absolutely free. It probably won't work with others. Total 4 simple steps for creating.
I draw your attention to the fact that if you use an image not from the official Microsoft website, then problems or errors may occur.
Specify the path to iso file y and go to the next step.
Then select "USB device" for a flash drive or "DVD" for a disc.
Select a flash drive and start copying. It must have at least 4 GB of free space.
Then wait until it is written to the device and you will receive a ready-made bootable USB flash drive.
The instructions are also available in video format.
Bootable flash drive for all images in UltraIso
it paid program having a free trial period. Download it from the official site and install. It is multifunctional and in Russian. Suitable for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.
You can see an example Windows installation XP in video. With other versions of systems, everything is done in a similar way.
Once launched, select a trial period.
Then open the image in the program.
Now in the "Boot" tab, select the image entry as shown in the example below.
Settings are made here.
- disk drive- flash drive.
- Image file- here check if the path is correct.
- Write method- Be sure to use a USB-HDD+. Otherwise, in some cases it will not work.
After checking all the settings, start recording.
Wait for it to finish. The time until the end is displayed on the right.
In no case do not remove the flash drive until the end of the process.
In case of successful completion, you will see an inscription about the end. After that, the bootable USB flash drive will be ready. Just close the window and enjoy.
Additional method for Windows XP
Download free utility DirectGrub and extract the archive. Its installation is not required. Select the iso file, flash drive and click "Start" as in the image below.
Wait while the files are being copied. Upon successful completion, a window will appear.
I hope you didn't have any questions and everything turned out well.
What did you use to create a bootable flash drive?
Step-by-step instruction on USB flash drive recovery in which I will try to answer the question in an accessible language How to recover a flash drive independently and without much effort.
It happens that you help a person, and then he will tell everyone that you are so good and there are already crowds of people who are thirsty for help. Something like this happened when I restored several flash drives colleagues.
Now the people carry not only their flash drives, but also flash drives their friends, acquaintances and relatives. Well, at least someone else dragged a bottle of beer or a cookie - figurines.
It's not difficult for me to help, but when I suggest that you learn how to do all this yourself, you refuse. I'll just make those next time. If you don't want to learn, move on.
With the lyrics, I end here and go directly to the topic of the post ..
If your flash drive stopped determined like a drive, doesn't want to be formatted, does not allow information to be written down or something else happened to her, BUT she does not have mechanical damage know that not all is lost. Most likely glitched controller and it will take a little fiddling with it. In time, this procedure takes approximately 5 minutes.
I must say right away that there is no universal programs for recovery all varieties flash drives. You will need to find exactly the one that can work with the controller of your flash drives.
First, we need to define VID and PID non-working flash drives.
Determine VID and PID for flash drive recovery
Plug in flash drive to the computer and run Device Manager. Start – Run - mmc devmgmt.msc.
Then go to section USB Universal Serial Bus Controllers.
Find yours in the list flash drive. Usually, everything flash drives have a name USB mass storage device.
Press the right key on the device and open Properties.
Go to tab Intelligence.
In the drop-down list, select the item Instance code device or Equipment codes (ID).
In this window we see PID and VID.
Finding a flash drive recovery program
We go to the FlashBoot.ru website and enter the received VID and PID.
Click on the button Search.
In the results, we are looking for our manufacturer and model of the flash drive. I have this Kingston DataTraveler 2.0.
In the right column there will be the name of the program we need or a link to it.
All. Now search in Google program by name or download from the link provided. Launch and follow the instructions. Usually, in such programs for recovery there is only one button, so you should not have any questions.
That's all!
Any questions - ask in the comments.
Instructions for creating a bootable flash drive using the WinSetupFromUSB 1.0 utility. For example, we use a 1 GB flash drive and create installation files on it. Windows files XP and an image with a set of utilities Hirens Boot CD. You can also install Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 2008/Linux boot files on a flash drive by specifying their location in the appropriate fields of the utility, similar to Windows XP.
Let's assume that the flash is clean and has never been created on it boot sector grub4dos. Let's do all the steps step by step, from creating a boot partition to copying the bootloader to flash.
Attention! Some antiviruses may react to the setup.ex_ and setup_dbg.ex_ (Exploit.Win32.IMG-WMF) files included in the program. These are false positives, there are no viruses in the assembly.
Make sure that the flash does not contain the information you need, as the USB drive will be formatted.
Run WinSetupFromUSB, select from the list of detected removable media flash or USB-HDD on which we will write the installation files.
Before copying boot files, you need to prepare a flash drive. Let's use the built-in Bootice utility.
If you have already created boot partition on flash, you can go directly to step 2.
Create an active boot partition on the flash drive, click the Parts Manage button
Click ReFormat USB disk
In this window, select USB-HDD mode and Align to cylinder (63 sectors), click Next
Choose file system, FAT32 or NTFS, enter the name of the flash drive and click OK. A warning will appear that it will be created new section and the flash drive will be formatted, all existing files and partitions will be deleted. We agree, click OK.
After formatting, the list of partitions on the flash drive will look like this.
Close the partition creation window and go to the main window of the Bootice utility. Click on the Refresh button
The Process MBR button will become available to us, click it and create the master boot record
In this window, select GRUB4DOS 0.4.5b MBR (grldr.mbr), then click Install / Config
Click Save to disk and click OK in the warning window. Close the Master Boot Record window and return to the main window of the Bootice utility
Now let's create a boot record on the created partition, click Process PBR
And select Grub4Dos 0.4.5b (2010-09-22) (FAT/NTFS/Ext2), then click Install/Config
In this window, we do not change anything, just click OK. Close the Partition Boot Record window, close Bootice.
The preparatory phase has been completed.
Go to the main window and in the Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup field specify the path to the previously unpacked image of the operating system on a disk or on a CD-ROM with an installation disk.
In the PartedMagic/Ubuntu Desktop variants/Other G4D comp. ISO specify the path to the Hirens Boot CD image.
To monitor the process of copying files, you can select the Show Log flag.
After setting the paths to the images, click on GO.
At the end of the work, the utility will report Job done.
We close the utility, safely extract the flash and try to boot from it.
After booting from flash, it will appear boot menu grub4dos,
In which you need to select Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup, and then First part of Windows XP Professional SP3 setup from partion 0.
After the first stage of installation and reboot, you need to boot from the flash again and now select Second part of 2000/XP/2003 setup / Boot first internal hard disk
If we do not do this, the installer will lose the location of the installation files on the flash drive and the installation will end with an error.
To load the Hirens Boot CD image, select Start HBCD_9.9_Russian from partion 0
Note: when using different Windows builds(for example, ZverCD / DVD) errors are possible when creating an installation flash drive.