How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Media from ISO

While most of us could have reserved a copy of the free Windows 10 upgrade for our computer systems, there could also be some who could need to go for a clean install, utilizing a Windows 10 ISO image. In this article, we'll see download the ISO image, burn it to a USB drive, and create a bootable USB media from ISO for Windows 10 set up.

Update: To get the ISO for the official arrival of Windows 10, head to this Microsoft page and download the 32 or 64 -bit version of the media creation tool. It will allow you to upgrade your Windows 7 SP 1 or Windows 8.1 PC, or download the ISO to use later for a clean install.

First of all, you'll have to download the Windows 10 ISO from the official link at Microsoft. 

Create Windows 10 bootable USB media from ISO 

Once you may have executed this, you need to use it to create a bootable USB or Flash Drive. To do that, you'll need to take the help of some products like Windows USB/DVD Download WinToFlash, Rufus, Tool, ABUSB, ESET SysRescue Live, Windows USB Installer Maker or Windows Installation Media Creation Tool.

In this article, I'm utilizing Rufus for instance. It also gives a portable version, which I've used. After you may have downloaded this freeware, insert your USB after which click on Rufus to open its main window. Do observe that, you'll require a 4 GB USB for the 32-bit version and 8 GB for the 64-bit version of Windows 10.

You could give a New volume label and browse to the placement of your downloaded Windows 10 ISO image. To browse to the placement, below Format Options, you will notice Create a bootable disk utilizing the option. Click on the small icon on the right facet and browse to the folder, and choose the ISO file.

The rest of the options, you might depart at their default values. When you utilize the MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI, beneath the Partition scheme and target system kind, the bootable USB will likely be appropriate for devices utilizing BIOS as well as UEFI.

Once you may have done this, simply click on Start and await the process to get over. Remember that while you click on Start, all data preset on this USB will likely be deleted, so if you have to, you might again up your data first before using it.

Once the process is completed, you'll have a bootable Windows 10 installation USB media in your hands, which you need to use to install Windows 10. 

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