How to Create a Bootable USB for Windows macOS Linux

IRONKAGE
3 min readAug 9, 2020

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Logo: macOS Windows Linux

How to prepare a USB flash drive? โ€” This question is sooner or later asked by every advanced PC user!

There are different ways but I will talk about the official ones. Letโ€™s get started!

Wallpaper Windows 10โ€“2004 (20H1)

Windows:

๐ŸŽฒ Difficulty: Easy
๐ŸŒ Language of Instruction: 35
๐Ÿ’พ OS Image: from Media Creation Tool 2004
๐Ÿ“œ Instruction: microsoft.com
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Wallpaper macOS 10.15 โ€” Catalina

macOS:

๐ŸŽฒ Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
๐ŸŒ Language of Instruction: Count the number of unique languages
๐Ÿ’พ OS Image: from Mac App Store
๐Ÿ“œ Instruction: apple.com
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๐Ÿ’Ž Bonus: Easy way to prepare USB is DiskMaker X โ€” just follow the instructions.

Wallpaper Ubuntu 20.04 โ€” Focal Fossa

Linux:

๐ŸŽฒ Difficulty: Easy-Hard
๐ŸŒ Language of Instruction: Typically officially English
๐Ÿ’พ OS Image: from Canonical
๐Ÿ“œ Instruction: ubuntu.com
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๐Ÿ’Ž Bonus: Here are some official installation links โ€” Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Pop!_OS, Arch, Elementary, DragonFly BSD, Solaris.

Table-1 - Comparison of Requirements:
+--------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+
| HardWare | Windows 10 | macOS Catalina | Ubuntu 20 |
+--------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+
| CPU | 1GHz | 1,6GHz | 2GHz |
| RAM | 1GB/2GB | 2GB | 4GB |
| Storage | 32GB | 12.5GB | 25GB |
| USB | 8GB | 12GB | 4GB |
| System | 32-bit/64-bit| 64-bit | 64-bit |
|Support New FS| ReFS | APFS | ZFS |
+--------------+--------------+----------------+-------------+

When creating a USB drive, you must be careful about the file markup of the hard drive:
1๏ธโƒฃ BIOS โ€” Support only MBR (Master Boot Record)
2๏ธโƒฃ UEFI โ€” GPT (GUID Partition Table) sometimes MBR (Master Boot Record)

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Bonus:

For Advanced users you can use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive โ€” Iโ€™m kidding, it can be used by anyone, but it requires Windowsโ—

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