Ever wondered how to make a bootable USB pen drive ? So that you don’t have to rely on empty DVD/CD or rewritable DVD/CD all the time? Well, the best solution for it is to make your USB pen drive bootable in just 4 steps. It will not get damaged or scratched like a DVD, and the best thing is that the pendrive is very compact and handy. Now we are going to see how to make your USB pen drive into a bootable OS pendrive to install Windows or any Linux-based OS on your PC/Laptops.
Step 1 : Get Your Desired OS in ISO format
Grab your desired operating system (OS) in ISO format. Get your favorite OS, which is Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Ubuntu, or any Linux-based OS like FreeBSD, Linux Mint, PC Linux, etc.,. in ISO format. Generally, whenever you download any OS from their official website, it will be in ISO format. You can get the Windows 8 Operating System (OS) trail version by going to the Microsoft official website. All you need to download Windows 8 OS Trail on the Microsoft website is a Microsoft email ID. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for one on their official website. After signing up, login with the same ID and Go to this link to Download Your Windows 8 OS Trail Version Choose 32-bit or 64-bit according to your system configuration.
Step 2 : Get Universal USB Installer Software
After downloading your desired OS in ISO format, save it on your PC/laptop hard disk, and then download Universal USB Installer Software from their official website here and save it on your desktop.
Step 3 : Insert and Format the USB Pen-Drive
Now plug the USB Pen drive into your system and format the Pen drive. After formatting the pen drive, double-click the Universal USB Installer Software that you saved on your desktop, and the screen will pop up. Click “I Agree.” After that, you will be getting the Screen like below
Click the drop-down menu and choose Windows 8 Installer. Choose the option according to the OS you downloaded. If your OS is not listed, choose “Try Unlisted Linux ISO” . In the above screenshot, I selected Windows 8, and after choosing that, click Browse and locate the Operating System (OS) Image ISO file you downloaded earlier. Here we are choosing Windows 8 OS Trail ISO .
Step 4 : Bootable USB Pen Drive Ready
After choosing the ISO image file, click “Select Your USB Flash Drive” and choose your Pen Drive from the list. Now click Create and wait until it finishes. After finishing the process, you can use your pendrive as a BOOTABLE USB PENDRIVE to install the operating system (OS) on your PC or laptop.
hellow!! i want to format my pc and want to install windows xp sp3 using bootable pendrive intially i did once but once it completed the whole pc operating system got corrupted and am getting erroe like missing of file setup.org and presetup.cmd .So will you please help me out in this situation how should i tackle this
When u connect the pendrive, usb disk security will automatically delete the exe file of operating system,that recognize it as virus like thing…so,deactivate your usb disk security and retrying iy
firstly create lynux os in pendrive you can back up drives and try once again instal os xp and again fomat totel hard disk and instal windows 7
am still getting n error after usng ur above mention software and error is “i am unable to find window configurtaion “
You are getting error after “Step 4 ” or before that ???
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Hiiii Guys,
I have try to create a bootable pendrive Windows Xp. but Windows xp option is not available.
Kindly give me ans…
Hi Vivek ,
You can select windows vista in the drop down menu and choose windows xp iso
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Hi Rmniwas Verma
Thanks for the comment . Yes, its a great application and it eases our work.
hii every one please tell me how to make window in pendrive please
Its Superb… Just follow the above steps…Its working fine…
but what about windows 98 and windows xp?
You can choose windows vista installer and then select windows 98 ISO .. it will work .
Hello dear
All is good but after some day or month again my window goes to not genuine. How can We resolve this without getting window key. Pls rply on vishalkumarsingh1129@gmail.com
Just use windows loader software
Hi, but universal usb does have windows xp option.
Thanks so much
It solved a serious problem while installing any OS in my laptop. Thanks once again
i cant’t do install windows 8 . The windows file copped from dvd i dont have windows_8_pro _EN US*64 ISO….
then what can i do…..what is solution for this problem…
thank you very much..very useful..
currently my file is extracting after that i will say what happens 99 % i think it will work…. : )
i have not window 8 pro activation
key. how can i get it …
You can buy it or can google it for windows 8 activators
Can I rewrite the USB after making it bootable? Let say I want to make the USB for installing window one time and I want to install Ubuntu another time, but I want to use only one USB.
can u plz help me out
i just want to know that can i install windows xp sp3 black edition 2014 by using the above idea of u sir??????
You have to choose windows vista and continue the process
i want to have all windows in one pendrive like 7 and 8 8,1 and 10 all one one
can i do that.
Thanks man.It works for me to boot windows 7.
I got xp 2008 cd and make iso file from power iso.. and use the universal usb sft. create as windows vista insatraller. it completed. but thiers a error when the pc boot from pen it said boot file missing. and boot img missing. like errors. but the cd is in good working. cd is working good. can you please help me
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WHEN I START MY LAPTOP I GET OPTION OF SAFE MODE, SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING, NORMAL MODE, I SELECT NORMAL MODE AFTER ARISE SAME ERROR COMES PLEASE LET ME SOLVE MY LAPTOP PROBLEM AND HOW TO START MY LAPTOP AS NORMAL
I have same problem….I want solution for this problem….
is internet connection needed during this process? rply fast pls….
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Hi there……. I want to ask that I have windows 8.1 installed in my PC and I want to boot windows 10 with my pendrive. So my question is will it effect windows 8.1 and can I access the files which in windows 8.1 (like games,music,photos) when I boot my PC with my pendrive ( windows 10) ?
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hello I just want to know that can any pendrive(hp,sony,sndisk) 8 gb be converted into a bootable one…or some special 8 gb models support it???
You can use any pendrive
i followed all the steps precisely as u hav written bt its saying ‘unable to boot’ evertime i go to th boot menu…pls help..any kinda suggestion wll b appreciated.
thnx
This website was really helpful. I could successfully install edubuntu 14.04.5 on my pc. Thanks a lot!
Thank u
Hi
During installation process, windows restarts for completing installation.. My problem here is after restarting, the installation process starts from very beginning..
Pls help. I am unable to complete installation
Thanks in advance
Hi,
During installation, windows restarts for completing installation process. But my problem here is, when system restarts for completing installation, the setup is starting from very beginning.. So i am unable to complete my installation. Pls support
Thanks in advance
thanks…. its working