How to Make a Bootable Linux Drive on Windows On Windows 10 or 11, we recommend using Rufus. It's been around for a long time and is well known as reliable and powerful.

By following these steps, you can easily create a bootable flash drive using Rufus, ensuring you have a reliable tool for installing or upgrading your operating system.

Skip the Media Creation Tool. Here's why Rufus and Ventoy are the best alternatives to create a Windows 11 bootable USB and how they can bypass system requirements (on unsupported hardware).

I've tried using a DOS 6.22 image and a FreeDOS image for the bootable part and I can create the .iso just fine. But when I boot from it and reach the DOS environment, my BIOS update file isn't there.

Making an ISO image of a hard drive means creating a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Here are two ways to do just that.