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Create Windows 10 bootable USB
Rufus is lightweight and easy to use. Here are the detailed steps on how to use Rufus to install Windows 10 for beginners. First, download the latest version of Rufus here and then run the software to get started.
Choose the right options according to your needs:
UEFI only:
- Partition scheme: GPT
- Target system: UEFI (non CSM)
- File system: FAT32
Legacy BIOS only:
- Partition scheme: MBR
- Target system: BIOS (or UEFI-CSM)
- File system: NTFS
Dual UEFI + Legacy BIOS:
- Press “Alt + E“
- Partition scheme: MBR
- Target system: BIOS or UEFI
- File system: FAT32
If the ISO file contains files larger than 4GB, choose NTFS.
By default, Rufus will not support booting in both UEFI and Legacy (BIOS). Press
ALT + E to enable this option. Rufus also supports creating two NTFS partitions to store files larger than 4GB and FAT32 to boot UEFI.- Select the USB drive you want to create under Device.
All data on this drive will be lost, including other partitions on the hard disk of this partition. - Click the SELECT button and select the ISO file on your computer.
- Image Option: You can install Windows onto USB drive with Rufus’s Windows To Go option. Or select Standard Windows Installation to create the installer to install to any other drive.
- Partition scheme: MBR or GPT.
- Target system: This option depends on the Partition scheme option, or BIOS or UEFI, or BIOS (or UEFI-CSM), or UEFI (non CMS).
- Volume label: The program will extract this information from the ISO file, which you can change if you want.
- File system: This option is very important, it decides bootability in UEFI or Legacy. To support Legacy, you need to select MBR instead of GPT.
- Click the START button to start creating.
If you get this error message, it means that the ISO file contains a file larger than 4GB. In this case, choose NTFS instead of FAT32, Rufus will create a second FAT32 partition to support UEFI boot.
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