In such cases, you can use diskpart to set the USB as active. The Mark Partition as Active option won’t be accessible on GPT drives.

Mount the ISO and copy its contents to the USB.

In case this option is grayed out, check the next section.

Afterward, right-click the USB and select Mark Partition as Active.

Select FAT32 as the filesystem and format the USB.

Press Win + R, type diskmgmt.msc, and press Enter.

Here’s how you can create a bootable USB using Disk Management: This method isn’t very popular, but it still has some use cases, such as when an internet connection is unavailable.

The creation tool will now burn the ISO onto the USB.

Accept the license agreement and select the Create installation media option.

Download and launch the Media Creation Tool.

Connect the USB to your PC if you haven’t already.

Here are the steps to create a bootable USB with this tool: Using Media Creation ToolĪs the Media Creation Tool is very simple to use, we’ll discuss that first. For Windows USBs, you’ll want an 8GB USB at the minimum, while the requirements for Linux will be lower depending on the distro. In case you’re trying to use the ISO of a specific version, you can instead use Diskpart.Īnd finally, if you want to create a bootable Linux or Mac USB in Windows, you can use Rufus. This will flash the USB with the latest Windows version.

Now I want to install windows 7 in it, but it somehow not loading files from the bootable USB and is weirdly directing me to Ubuntu screen after several flashes and weird error messages on the terminal.If you’re trying to create a bootable Windows USB on Windows, you can use the Media Creation Tool.

After several retries I tried a bootable with Ubuntu and it was successfully installed.

Mint installation failed because of Grub loader error.

I made a partition table allocating desired disk spaces for my mint and windows partitions and formatted my system.

I made a mint 17 USB bootable disk and started my system using it.Here is what I did, please find the erroneous step:.

I needed to format it and perform a fresh dual boot with windows 7 and mint 17. To start off, I had windows 10 installed on my system. *Ubuntu then flashes several times before loading when it failed to boot from Windows USB. *I have ubuntu 18 as my OS and when I try to boot from a USB containing windows 7 bootable hoping to dual boot my system, it fails to boot from USB and loads my Ubuntu after certain weird messages.

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