How to Create a Bootable Pendrive??

Hello Friends, today I am going to tell you how you can make your USB/pendrive Bootable and use it to boot the OS from it instead of a CD/DVD. Note that this is to ‘boot the OS from USB drive’ and not ‘Install an OS using a USB drive’.

We are going to use a software called ‘UNetbootin’ for this purpose. You can get it from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Advantages:

1)    You can create bootable Live USB drives for different OS (Ubuntu, Fedora, or any other flavour of LINUX, and Windows.)

2)    No need to install the new OS on your system.

3)    Works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Linux, Mac OS.

4)    You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many supported os that you don’t have or even you can boot the image of iso file that already you have!!

Here’s what you gotta do..
1)    Download the UNetbootin software according to your OS from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2)    If you want to try different operating systems of linux platform, You can try different distributions available here.
3)    If you already  have an iso of an  OS or your preferred distribution isn't on the list. you can browse and select the disk image of OS which you already have.
4)    After selecting click ok.
It will extract and copy files after that bootloader will be installed.
5)    After completion of installation you need to reboot the system.
6)    Now you need to change boot priority or boot option. You can do this by pressing F10 ( or F8 or F12 depending on the system) at the boot to enter into the setup and select to boot from the USB Drive. Now, reboot and you are done.