How to make an ISO image and burn it

ISO is a special format in whichfiles for emulation on virtual drives are converted. A similar image you can mount without third-party drives, or write to a USB flash drive / drive and use it on other computers. In most cases, ISO files are used to create bootable drives with the distribution of the Windows operating system. Let's figure out how to make an ISO image, how to write it to an external medium, etc.

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The standard situation - you need to write downfiles to disk or a USB flash drive in the image format, in order to use the device as a boot drive in the future. This can come in handy when installing the operating system, when using emergency programs that do not require the operating status of Windows, so they can be run directly from the USB flash drive before the OS boots.

Сначала пользователь должен найти и скачать necessary files, before making an ISO image. In the case of the operating system, the distributions are already packed into this format, so you do not have to do anything manually - just write data to the drive through a special program (see below).

It is necessary to create an ISO file using the functionalspecial utilities. Most often with their help a set of actions is performed - both the creation of images, and their recording on a flash drive / disk. Consider the option using the UltraISO program.

UltraISO

You can download this program for free from the developer's site. After installation, run the application and follow these steps:

1. Use the explorer at the bottom of the window to select the files you need. They will appear in the base of the area - there the content of the future image is displayed.
2. Now click on the "File" - "Save As" button.
3. Enter a name for the future ISO file, select the directory to save and click "Save".

Also, you can make an ISO image by copying data from a physical medium:

1. Click the "Bootstrap" button and select "Create Hard Disk Image" from the menu.
2. Specify the path to the drive in which the disk is located, and click OK.
3. Wait for the program to copy the data into the ISO format, and save it to the desired folder on the hard disk.

How do I make an ISO image of Windows?

In the case of the operating system, you do not have tomanually create an ISO file. You can download the ready-made distro for writing to the USB flash drive. The most diverse editions and assemblies are on major torrent trackers. However, if you need an official version of Windows 10 from Microsoft, then use the following method:

1. Open the official website.
2. Click on the "Download Now" button.

1. This will download the MediaCreationTool.exe file, which you must run after the download.
2. Next, follow the instructions for choosing the version of the OSand a drive for writing. The plus of this method is that you can do two things at once - download an image with the operating system and write it to the drive in automatic mode (you do not need anything from you).

Now you know how to make an ISO image of Windowsboot immediately, without additional files and programs using one single utility from Microsoft. The exact same application was created for the convenience of downloading and burning an image of Windows 8.

If you need Windows 7 or older, then make the ISO image bootable by using third-party software. We will figure out how to do this.

Writing an image to the drive

Если с новыми версиями ОС Windows все понятно, то how to deal with previous releases or other files, from which you need to create a boot disk or a USB flash drive? The utility of the UltraISO utility comes to the rescue again. With it, we can quickly write down the necessary data:

1. Prepare a flash drive / disk, an ISO image (the creation instructions are found in the article above) and run the program itself.
2. Now click the "Bootstrap" button and select "Burn Hard Disk Image" from the menu.
3. In the window that opens, you need to specify Disk Drive, select the location of the image to be burned on the hard drive, and click the "Record" button.
4. Wait until the procedure is complete and remove the device from the PC.

As you can see, make the ISO image bootable andwrite it to a USB flash drive or drive is quite simple. In addition to the described UltraISO program, you can use the functionality of Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120 and similar applications.

In the case of Windows 8 or 10, it is recommended immediatelygo to the official site and download a special utility to create a boot disk. So you save a lot of time searching for the required assembly of the operating system and parsing the program's functionality for writing.