Creating bootable drives
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Before continuing, make sure you have a storage device such as a Flash Drive or a SD card of at least 16 GB's or more storage. If lower than 16GB's, your OS may not successfully install properly.
Find your OS
Making a bootable drive requires a Operating System to be download beforehand
Here are some Operating System's you may download (Not limited to these):
- Windows 10
- You may use the Windows installation media tool to install your OS onto a flash drive instead of Rufus or Etcher
- Linux Ubuntu
- Linux Mint
USB Flash Drive Installation
You may use an external hard disk such as a SSD or HDD but I suggest using a flash drive for the portability. To install an OS onto a flash drive, please check that all data has been backed up from that flash drive and install the application Rufus
- Before opening Rufus, make sure your flash drive is plugged in and you can access it from File Explorer
- If it is a brand new flash drive, plug it into the computer and make sure to map a letter to the drive using disk management (You may follow these procedures)