How To Make UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive

By FoxLearn 12/24/2024 9:33:01 AM   4.43K
To create a UEFI bootable USB flash drive using Rufus, follow these steps.

Rufus is a tool that formats and creates bootable USB drives, such as USB keys, pendrives, and memory sticks, enabling them to be used for installing operating systems or running utilities.

You can download it directly by following this link:

LinkTypePlatform
rufus-4.6.exeStandardWindows x64
rufus-4.6p.exePortableWindows x64
rufus-4.6_x86.exeStandardWindows x86
rufus-4.6_arm64.exeStandardWindows ARM64

How to use create Windows 8.1 UEFI Bootable USB Flash drive

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After you finish downloading Rufus, you need insert your usb, then open rufus tool and select iso image.

Next, select GPT partition scheme for UEFI from the combobox.

Finally, Select quick format, create a bootable disk using iso image, create extended label and icon files, then click the Start button.

Rufus is especially useful in the following cases:

- You need to create a USB containing installer from bootable ISO (Windows, Linux, UEFI, ...)

- You need to work on a system that doesn't have the OS installed

- You need to load BIOS or other core software from DOS

- You want to run low level utilities

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