How to record windows on a flash drive

If to you necessary install on note device OS. Windows, but no possibilities do this is at aid installation disk (no optical drive or he broom), can use for these goals boot flash drive with way selected you version Windows. Create such flash drive can a few methods. We offer to you options entries Windows on flash drive with help program Ultraiso. and WINTOFLASH.

One of the most convenient ways to record the Windows image on the USB flash drive - using Ultraiso. And the first stage here will be downloaded to your computer (laptop, netbook) of the program itself and the OS image. Since Ultraiso is a paid utility, you can either buy it or choose a free trial mode, then install the selected option. Next download the image of the version you need. Please note that it should be in ISO format.

The second stage will be the preparation of a USB drive. Note that the minimum amount of your installation flash drive should be at least 4 GB (for Windows 7 and similar to it by volume), and the flash drive itself must be formatted before writing the image. Recall that the formatting process of any device, including flash drives, deletes all data recorded on it. Therefore, in advance to make sure that you save information from the USB drive to another medium.

The third stage is the launch of Ultraiso. Run the program through the shortcut and in the window that opens via the "File" ("File") and "Open" ("Open") we find the path to the Windows image recorded in a special format "ISO". Open it through the Virtual Open button at the bottom of the program window.

Now go to the direct Windows image record on the USB flash drive. To do this, select the "Self-loading" section of the Ultraiso window ("Bootable") and in the "Write Disk Image") in the drop-down tab. In the window that opens, check the settings: In the Disk Drive field, there should be a flash drive to which a Windows image will be recorded, and the write method (Write Method) must be the following - USB-HDD +.

If before this stage you did not formatted the USB drive selected to write Windows, you can do this by pressing the virtual button in the "Format" program ("Format" window. As a result, the formatting window will open, where in the "File system" section, select the NTFS value and begin the formatting process by pressing "start". Next, sequentially click "OK" in the prevention and completion window of the formatting process, after which you close the formatting window. If your flash drive is already formatted, you can skip this item.

Fourth Stage - Recording Windows OS image on an already formatted USB drive. In the Write Disk Image window, press the "Write" virtual button. At the end of the image recording procedure, the selected version of Windows on the USB flash drive, close the Ultraiso program - and you can start installing the OS on a computer, a laptop or netbook.

Another simple way to write a Windows image on a USB flash drive - using the WinToflash utility. You can familiarize yourself with him on the video instruction placed below.