Burn An ISO To Flash Drive

[shane_faulkinbury2]

I was just wondering if someone has an idea on how to burn an ISO to a USB flash drive? I have Disk Image Mounter and Disk Image Writer, but can't figure them out! Can someone please give me some guidance? :confused:

[SeijiSensei]

If you're trying to create a bootable USB drive from an ISO disk image, use the Startup Disk Creator as described here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu

[shane_faulkinbury2]

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Well I formatted it to ext3 and can't see it in Files! Startup Disk Creator sees it, but says 0 bytes available. Now I'm going to have to go to stupid Windows 10 to format it to NTFS!

[Bucky Ball]

You need to format the USB to FAT32 before using either of these.

UNetbootin:
www.unetbootin.sourceforge.net

Universal USB Installer:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

[sudodus]

If you use mkusb to burn an ISO to a USB flash drive, you need no pre-formatting. It will do all the job for you. See this link: mkusb (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb)

From Windows you can use the corresponding tool Win32 Disk Imager (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager/iso2usb)

[shane_faulkinbury2]

Do you know how to recover my flash drives so I can see them again?

[Dennis N]

Do you know how to recover my flash drives so I can see them again?

Insert flash drive. Using gparted, first select the flash drive in the drive selector (upper right) and then create a new partition table (Devices > Create Partition Table > Choose type). On completion of that step, all space on the drive will be unallocated. Make a new partition within the unallocated space of whatever size & filesystem type you need, like FAT32.

[SeijiSensei]

You can format a device with FAT32 from the command prompt. Suppose your drive is recognized as /dev/sdb with a single partition, /dev/sdb1. Then at a prompt type:

sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1
to format it as FAT32 (or "vfat").

[shane_faulkinbury2]

Thanks guys! Your advice worked and it's much appreciated! I used gparted to format the usbs to fat32 and then used Startup Disk Creator to write the iso to the flash drive and everything worked perfectly! :D

[Bucky Ball]

Great news and thanks for marking as solved. Enjoy! :)