Make USB stick bootable with Linux
If you make a USB stick bootable with Linux, you always have an operating system in your pocket. You can use it, for example, to repair crashed computers or clean virus-infected computers. This practical tip shows you how to create a bootable USB medium with a Linux distribution.
Create bootable USB stick with Linux distribution
Fortunately, there are a number of tools available to create a bootable USB stick with Linux. One of the best programs for this is "Linux Live USB Creator". It works without advertising and is intuitive to use.
- Download the "Linux Live USB Creator" to your computer and install the program.
- Then connect the USB stick to the computer. In the best case, the stick no longer contains any files.
- In the "Linux Live USB Creator", select the USB stick from the dropdown menu.
- In the second step "Select source" you now enter the file path of the Linux distribution that is later to be stored on your USB stick.
- Normally, after a bootable USB stick is restarted, all created data is deleted. In the third step "persistence" you can prevent this. A value of around 300 MB is recommended here, so that settings and folders made are still available later.
- In the fourth step you decide whether the created files should be hidden, the USB stick should be formatted or whether Linux can also run directly under Windows in a specially created virtual box. We recommend that you check all three options.
- As soon as you click on the flash, your USB stick will be finished. This can take some time.
- You should then test the USB stick immediately. Now you can, for example, download files from the Internet and configure Linux according to your wishes.
- Windows can also be booted from a USB stick. We show you in our video how this works even without additional tools:
These instructions refer to the Linux Live USB Creator 2.9.2. We will show you in another article how you can repair Windows with on-board equipment beforehand without using the Linux stick.