![]() Compared to all other USB bootable tools, the flashing speed with UNetbootin is very fast. The thing that makes UNetbootin unique is its lightning-fast speed. ![]() This one could be a perfect option for those who want to create Linux-based bootable USB drives for any machine. UNetbootin is a portable image flashing tool that is incredibly lightweight and compatible with almost all Linux distros. It will also detect the connected USB drive and will provide you an option to flash the image file into it. Rules of Windows Registry hive validator (which is employed during Windows 8.x/10 cloning for snapshot consistency check) were relaxed to allow UTF-16 characters which are inconvertible to Unicode (these ones are used by third-party software).To create a bootable macOS media drive, launch the app, and it will automatically file the macOS installation file using Spotlight.Improved support for conversion of Linux disks based on recent versions of IsoLinux.FlashBoot can install Windows 10 to USB thumbdrives.Conversion of Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 installation DVD to USB thumbdrive/HDD in UEFI modeīecause of UEFI Platform requirements for Secure Boot, first two features from the above require full version of FlashBoot.Installation of fully-functional Windows 8/8.1/10 to USB thumbdrive/HDD in UEFI mode. ![]() UEFI support has been added to the FlashBoot: Of course you may do some things you can’t do under your OS: copy/modify system files (they are busy when OS is running), reinstall OS, repartition your main hard disk etc. There’s no need to reformat (reburn) the boot disk, you just copy files and folders, and there’s no need for extra hardware for such operations. Just after boot, on every PC, you may save your files to the same boot device, or restore them back. You can buy a big or a small USB disk depending on your needs. With bootable USB Flash disk, you don’t have to obey a CD/DVD size limit of 700 or 4700 MB. If your laptop has a bootable CD/DVD drive, you can’t work with it for a long time: boot device is accessed quite often, and battery power is obviously not enough to supply laser for a long time. There are some mobility considerations as well. Or if your home PC has CD/DVD drive failed, you can do it too. If your sysadmin at work restricts PC to not to have CD/DVD drives, you still can boot from USB flash disk. On the other hand, buying external CD/DVD drive for netbook is not a truly wise choice because it will be shifted out of use just after Windows is installed, thanks to widespread use of DVD image files and modern hard disk capacities.īootable USB flash disks are useful as boot devices on the “big” desktop PCs too, unlike CD/DVD discs they do not have sensible surface you could scratch, thus more reliable (especially when holding your backup data). ![]() Again, the cost per gigabyte for them continues to cut down, unlike CD/DVD discs.īootable USB flash disks are especially useful with netbooks like ASUS Eee PC which does not have builtin CD/DVD drive or an opportunity to install one. Unlike the most bootable medias, bootable USB Flash keys are very handy: compared to floppies, they have much bigger size, speed and reliability, compared to CD/DVD discs, they are random write access devices, so you can backup your data to the same media where you booted from, without need to reformat (reburn) the entire media. Why do you might want to use bootable USB flash disks? So you may create customized USB disk manually or with another tool and use FlashBoot to create image out of it and redistribute it in local network or online. FlashBoot can either format physical disk or write an image file. You may create blank bootable USB flash with minimal set of system files and then manually tune it for your needs, or convert a full-featured bootable CD-ROM or floppy disk to bootable USB Flash keeping all functionality. Different operating systems are supported: Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, SysLinux-based disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kernel etc. Making disk bootable involves formatting and copying operating system files to it. Its primary focus is USB Flash disks, but other types of USB devices are supported as well. FlashBoot Portable is a tool to make USB disks bootable.
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