A 4GB flash drive, or 8GB for the 64-bit version. Rufus, a free utility for creating bootable USB drives. Here's how to install the OS from a flash drive: The Windows 10 experience starts here.

How to use Rufus on a Windows PC The Rufus software has an interface as shown in the above image. It automatically detects the USB flash drive (s) connected to your system.

If the system you want to install the OS on doesn't have a CD-ROM or floppy drive, you can do the installation from a USB flash drive. This requires that you prepare the drive with the OS files first.

A 2GB flash drive will be even better — and make sure there’s nothing important you want to save on the drive. This procedure will reformat the drive and erase its contents.

If you want to install it, just click the Administration tab and choose install. One of my favorite Windows utilities for burning the Eeebuntu ISO you downloaded to a DVD is CDBurnerXP.

Blogger Kurt Shintaku figured out how to install Windows Vista from a USB flash drive, a potentially huge time-saver for anyone needing to deploy the OS on multiple machines.

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Instead, you can easily install Yosemite on a USB 3.0 flash drive and have your development/testing operating system available in your pocket just a reboot away.

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Here's what you need: a USB pen drive (4GB or greater in size), the Windows 8 Consumer Preview disk image file (64-bit download here, 32-bit download here), Microsoft's Windows 7 USB tool ...

This post is for everyone else who, like me, has been wasting their time flashing USB bootable installers onto flash drives to install Windows 11 or Linux onto various pieces of hardware.