If you want to do a Windows reinstallation process, either installing Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10, then you need a Bootable or Windows installer. The Windows installer can be a CD / DVD or Flashdisk. But now most of them use flashdisks as USB Installers because the latest Notebooks aren't accompanied by CD / DVD readers. In order for your Flashdik to be used for the Windows installation process, then you must make it Bootable USB first.
What is Bootable USB?
Booatble USB or Bootable
Flashdisk is a Flashdisk that the Windows installer has inserted into it.
Bootable Flashdisk will later be used as a tool to install Windows. The type of
flashdisk that can be made into Bootable USB is any type of ordinary Flashdisk,
as long as it is still usable and not damaged. Falshdisk that has been made
into Bootable USB can still be used as another data storage.
How to make Bootable USB
for Windows installation
There are many choices
that can be made if you want to make a Bootable UEFI USB for Windows
installation, you can use Rufus Software and you can without using any software
This tutorial will only discuss how to make a Bootable USB or Flashdisk
installer for Windows installation using Rufus Software. For a tutorial on How
to make a Bootable USB UEFI for Windows installation without using software,
please read How to create a Windows installer without software.
All right, just how to make
a Bootable USB or Flashdisk Bootable with Rufus software:
Step 1
Prepare the tools and
materials needed, namely a minimum 4 GB Flashdisk, a Windows ISO file that will
be installed as well as Rufus software.
Step 2
Connect the USB
Flashdisk to the computer.
Step 3
Run Rufus Software.
Step 4
Set the settings as
shown below.
In point 1, please
select your USB Flashdisk.
In point 2, please
change the partition scheme and target system to the MBR partition scheme for
BIOS and UEFI.
In point 3, please enter
the flashdisk label / name as you wish.
In point 5, please
select your Windows ISO file by clicking on the disk icon.
In point 6, please click
start to begin the process of making a bootable Flashdisk.
Step 5
Wait until the loading
process for making Bootable is complete, after that you can already use it to
install Windows.
So how to make a Bootable
USB or Bootable Flashdisk using Rufus, the Flashdisk that has been made into
Bootable later you can use to reinstall Windows and can still be used to store
other data.
- Rufus
- Tested Windows 10 (64bit)
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