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If you're a Mytour reader, you've probably come across Mytour's guide on creating a Win 10 USB Boot with Rufus. However, that guide only shows you how to create it, not when to create a Windows installation USB with Rufus and why Rufus is the preferred choice. The following straightforward guide will answer these questions for you, making it clear and logical.
Creating a Windows installation USB with Rufus?
1. What is Rufus?
2. Advantages of Rufus.
3. Why should you create a Windows installation USB using Rufus?
What is Rufus?
Rufus is a free tool used to reconfigure the formatting of USBs and HDDs according to the current standard formats. Additionally, Rufus supports users in creating Windows 7, 8, or Windows 10 installation drives and other operating systems on USBs. This facilitates the creation of a portable Windows environment.
Advantages of Rufus
- Easy to use with no need for installation, lightweight.
- Utilize all features for free, receive free updates.
Why create a Windows installation USB using Rufus?
For those using Windows 10, you'll notice that after burning a Windows installation USB without Rufus, some work while others don't. Why is that?
>> Simply because at this point, the standard of the USB you're using may not match your hard drive, and the Windows installation USB might have a different standard. There are two common standards today: MBR and GPT. Readers can explore and learn more about MBR Partition and GPT Partition here.
- MBR is an older standard supporting all devices with a maximum capacity of 2 TB (2000 GB). It can create a maximum of 4 partitions and supports BIOS, UEFI standards.
- GPT came later with support for 1 ZB (1 billion TB) and 128 partitions. However, it only supports computers using UEFI.
>> This means that if you're creating a Windows installation USB with MBR format, it can be installed on both BIOS and UEFI standards. But if you switch to GPT, it only supports UEFI.
Currently, there are many tools on the market that allow you to convert between MBR and GPT. However, some require you to delete all data on the HDD, and some require you to enter the DOS environment beforehand. When creating a Windows installation USB with Rufus, you don't have to do this because Rufus's interface has integrated features for quickly converting USBs.
>> In conclusion, to answer the question of when to create a Windows installation USB using Rufus, it's when you need flexible conversion between MBR and GPT formats, allowing users to install Windows in the most convenient format for their hard drive.
So, through the above article, you've answered the question of when to create a Windows installation USB using Rufus on your own. There are many ways to create a Win installation USB, but if you have a compact tool like Rufus with all the features you need, why not use Rufus for creating the Win installation USB, right?
Mytour believes that Rufus is a great tool, but undoubtedly there are still many other useful tools with features just as competitive. We will introduce them as soon as we finish researching and exploring.
