What Makes A USB Flash Drive Bootable

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Larissa· Answered on Jan 05, 2024

A bootable USB drive or CD/DVD enables you to run the operating system from the file system on your USB drive. And what makes a USB flash drive bootable? It's easy to understand.

What makes a USB disk bootable is: A valid boot sector model that contains operating systems files, such as MBR(Master Boot Record), bootloader, kernel files, and more.

When your computer fails to boot from the hard drive, you can use a bootable USB flash drive or CD/DVD as an emergency solution by connecting it to the computer and booting from it. This is especially useful when repairing system-related issues or recovering data on a failing hard drive. 

Creating a bootable USB disk is not difficult and can be done using EaseUS Todo Backup, which makes it easier for you to complete the process as quickly and efficiently as possible. It offers a WinPE Emergency Disk feature that you can use to create a bootable USB disk or CD/DVD based on both Linux and WinPE to restore the system in case of a system disaster.
It helps you:

• Omit the tedious formatting of the USB hard drive and copy Windows OS.
• Install the personalized Windows OS that you currently use on the USB drive.
• Boot Windows operating system from the portable USB drive on any computer.

To make your USB flash drive bootable, all you need to do is:

• Prepare a USB flash drive that can be written and read.
• Download and install EaseUS Todo Backup on a working Windows computer.
• Click Tools > Create Emergency Disk.
• Choose a boot disk location. There are ISO, USB, and CD/DVD options.
• Click Create to start the process.

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