With the advent of ultra portable laptops, optical drives are becoming a thing of the past. Although not having optical drives allows manufacturers to make lighter devices, it causes problems to users when they want to fresh install operating systems, as most of them are still available in the form of CDs, DVDs and downloadable ISOs. For users of these devices, the only option then remains is to use a flash drive to install the operating system of their choice.
Not surprisingly, there are also a few of us who prefer installing operating systems from flash drives for its faster speeds. There are also a few of us who prefer to keep live operating systems on our flash drives to access computers without having an OS by simply plugging in our devices.
With such a lot of users needing to create bootable USB flash drives, it appears imperative that OS manufacturers provide an inbuilt way to create them with each DVD and CD they provide. However, that is not the case with all operating system manufacturers.
Above images is a great tool for creating bootable usb, Windows XP, Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 and other OS's.
HOW TO USE RUFUS
Before anything else make sure you already have an ISO image of the os you want to install.
1. Download Rufus on their office site.
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
2. Plug-in your flash drive.
3. Select ISO Image on the drop down menu and browse the folder where the ISO image is located.
4. Click start. Wait the process to finish. You're done
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