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Step 5. Seems very simple and easy, but this native tool can only recognize and allow you to choose USB drives that are certified by Microsoft as compatible. Or you will get stuck in Step 3. Moreover, non-certified USB drives can also be used. As for the capacity size, 13GB is enough.

Attention : If available, you can use a USB 3. You can download the free Demo version. Note that UNetbootIn does not format or partition a flash device during its operations, nor does it take all necessary steps to make a device bootable. Any existing files on a device will remain and still be accessible, and an unbootable device may remain unbootable. Many new USB sticks do not come with a partition table or the correct MBR for them to be bootable and so they will need preparing and formatting in a particular way.

If you just want to wipe a device clean of files then you can reformat it in Windows, if you also want to ensure it will be bootable then format it before hand with Rufus. Boot Menu. You always get an additional boot menu as part of the UNetbootIn standard install, which is more useful with some of the other features of the app. Typically the items on the boot menu will have been taken from any Linux boot menu that we would have seen from the distro or utility we have installed on the device.

The default option is always selected at startup, which means that after any timer countdown UNetbootIn will start the item in the original boot menu that was set as the default item to boot, which in our example below and for most other things will be the first item in the list. So if we let the countdown timeout, or we just hit enter as soon as we see the boot menu, we will get the intended default boot option. UNetbootIn Home Page. Of course using them through a USB adapter will work, but that kind of negates their main advantage of convenience and low profile.

If you wish to return an SD card to standard duties in a camera or media player etc then you may need to reformat it to get optimum performance, preferably by using the device's own options for formatting, or with the specialized SDformatter tool, which proclaims it won't format the card's ' Protected Area '. Seems all SD secure digital memory cards require this for the secure part of their nature, which is to prevent the copying or reproducing of restricted content.

As far as we can tell this protected area is no more than some unused sectors between the MBR and partition on SD and on SDHC , where lock and encryption details are stored. There are conflicting views about which method of re-formatting is best and whether we need to worry about restoring the protected area if we have nothing to protect. See here and here and here.

If you have a definitive answer then please share - feedback. Booting Windows from a USB device. Booting into and running a full Windows operating system from a USB connected hard drive or a USB flash drive is an entirely different matter and has not been supported until Windows With the introduction of Windows-to-go in the Enterprise Edition of Win-8 it is now natively and officially possible to run Windows from USB connected drives.

There are of course licensing requirements and if you want any kind of decent performance then a USB3. For USB thumb drives there is a list of certified drives that offer the durability and performance specifications that Microsoft advise. Windows 8. How to install Windows 8 on a flash drive. Once that has been achieved then it is relatively easy to take the next step and get it on to and running from a thumb drive.

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WinToBootic only has a few options, so it is more suitable to ordinary people. Yumi is short for Your Universal Multiboot Installer.

As its name said, this application is able to create bootable USB drive for multiple operating systems in one USB flash drive without formatting.

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