ISO to USB

[Mir96TA]

Please recommend me a Free and Known GOOD software which can IMAGE to USB off a ISO.
All the ones I tried they were all garbage.
Thanks
Mir

 

[Steltek]

Rufus is a great tool, and tends to be really fast too.

UNetbootin is an older one, but generally works just fine.

 

[mxnerd]

Zotac WinUSB Maker

http://www.zotac.com/emea/z-zone/zotac-winusb-maker.html

 

[Puffnstuff]

Rufus and the hp creator work well for me.

 

[Underclocked]

I have found that simply unzipping an OS iso using 7-zip creates a bootable usb drive in most cases. Choose Extract Files then direct the extraction to the usb drive.

 

[Gronnie]

I have found that simply unzipping an OS iso using 7-zip creates a bootable usb drive in most cases. Choose Extract Files then direct the extraction to the usb drive.

I think it is only bootable in UEFI though.

 

[Underclocked]

That has not been the case for me.

 

[TheELF]

I think it is only bootable in UEFI though.

The flash drive is just another drive as far as the bios/uefi is concerned,as long as the flash drive has an active and bootable partition ,and you tell your bios to start from flash,underclocked's method will work.

Now some windows installations ,mainly win 7,are made for bios (pre uefi) and will not boot on uefi but that's the fault of the installation media.
You will have to copy a bootfile over from a working installation.
http://www.hodgin.ca/microsoft/creating-a-uefibios-windows-7-usb-and-installing-to-gpt-partitions/

 

[zir_blazer]

You need a proper tool to write the ISO if you expect it to be bootable. There are a lot of things that aren't files per see but are still data that has to be writed, including the MBR or GPT Partition Tables, bootable flag for a MBR primary partition or partition type for the GPT ESP, maybe an embedded bootloader at the first sector of a primary MBR partition, and things like that. A straight copy of files ignores all the previous things which are required.

 

[Mir96TA]

Usage I have is not limited to Microsoft OS. It going to be lot of other OS.
Some are Linux flavors (Centos, Gecko) etc.
I can make bootable CDs...... but now days CDs are harder come by, if they it come at higher cost.
Also I have machine which does not have any optical drive either.

 

[TeknoBug]

The Pendrivelinux util works too

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

 

[Mir96TA]

The Pendrivelinux util works too

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

perfect it has worked beautifully