hi, in the past I’ve got a pretty weird issue while I was getting ready to make a switch: every USB that I tried failed to boot

turns out, the “safer” way to get it out from the PC (the eject function) messed up its file system

it was long ago, but the other day I made another bootable USB and it happened again, I thought it was just a bug that would be eventually fixed it happens both for Linux Live ISOs and Windows Install Media

am I the only one?

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        I never had luck with it. Rufus on Windows. Or just use Ubuntu in Windows by activating WSL and maybe try through bash command line?

        I always hate finding the command for it. It’s “dd”.

        sudo dd if=[path/to/file.iso] of=[/dev/usb_drive] status=progress

        I think you need to format usb first.

        • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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          18 hours ago

          on windows rufus is indeed the best tool to use imo. i think i used win32diskimager/unetbootin in the past but i see no reason to use that over rufus now… not sure if dd from WSL works.

          rufus formats the usb automatically afaik, and writing image with dd also formats the disk