Rufus is a preferred application to create bootable universal serial bus flash drives. This program is free and open source. This is a stand alone program that supports Microsoft Windows eXPerience and newer operating systems.
You can run this program on both thirty two and sixty four bit operating systems. Rufus will create bootable flash drives for both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. For example you can create a bootable Ubuntu installation universal serial bus flash drive.
All you have to do is download an international organization for standardization ISO image file and then burn it to a flash drive. You will then want to mount a universal serial bus flash drive. I always just use those default settings within that Rufus software program.
You will want to select your international organization for standardization image using a Click to select icon next to Create a bootable disk image using. All of your data on your flash drive will become deleted. Then you will want to just click on Start.
Burning large international organization for standardizaton files to a bootable image can take awhile. Developers of Rufus claim that this application is faster than unetbootin. Also, there are software updates available with this program.
However, I think automatic updates are disabled by default. You will want to click on About in the bottom left corner of that Rufus software program. Then you can select Updates. If a newer version of Rufus is available you will be able to download and install it.
Remember, Rufus is a stand alone executable software program. This program does not get installed into Programs and Features. You can even change the language that this programs uses in the upper right hand corner.
You can choose a blank volume label for your bootable flash drives or enter your own. These instructions were written for Microsoft operating systems. However, you can use them as a basis point for Linux operating systems.