Bootable USB drive

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 21:58, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:45:08 -0700, david wrote:
> >rufus
>
> Hi,
>
> what are the benefits of rufus over other?

I agree that Rufus is the best tool for Windows.

There are some machines that will not boot Ventoy. More commonly,
there are OSes that will start to boot from it, but then will fail to
run or complete installation. I have had problems with eComStation,
TinyXP and other OSes.

Rufus is tiny, it's free, it works well, there are local and portable
versions so it does not need installation, and it is the only tool I
have met that always results in a bootable Windows USB key. I've been
using it for years now for these reasons.

It is slow, though. However, the expectation that the result will work
makes it worth it. I have wasted more time writing Windows USBs,
rebooting, it failing, reloading Linux again, trying a different tool,
rebooting again, failing, reloading Linux... etc.

I have tried Balena Etcher, Unetbootin, Ubuntu's System Disk Creator,
dd, and other tools. Most work fine for Linux, but none of these
_reliably_ makes Windows bootable USBs. Rufus does.

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