The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Rufus will create standard MBR-ready USB sticks, too (this is what I use it for as well) - including ones for Linux distributions and the BSDs (or even UNIX ISOs, such as Oracle Solaris). Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. That's it! It will now create a Bootable EFI a compatible USB drive. (it won't fit on a 4GB stick)Ģ) Under "Partition scheme and target system type and select " GPT partition scheme for UEFI Computer"ħ) Select your Windows 8 ISO (Not sure about vista) that you wish to use Wait for the status to say 'Ready,' then close Rufus and remove the USB drive. Leave other options alone and choose Start.
Insert your USB stick, for a Windows 8 install stick you will want one about 8GB in size. Under Image option, choose Standard Windows installation. The process is as simple as selecting the distribution we wish (to choose among more than twenty), select the ISO in our hard drive (we can also download it automatically. Luckily there is a tool which does all of this for you. Universal USB Installer is a simple application allowing us to create, in two simple steps, our own Linux installer to have in the pendrive. Why you ask? Well the EFI bios doesn't support NTFS only fat32 and the USB stick also has to be partitioned with a GPT partition not MBR. As you probably noticed using your existing USB install media on a new Windows 8.1 computer is that it doesn't show up in the boot menu without enabling Legacy support.