Burning iso to usb windows 8

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However, if you suspect any issues with your USB drive, you can always choose 'Check device for bad blocks. It is okay to choose '1 Pass'. However, if you feel that your device may have some serious issues, you can choose a bigger number more passes. Step 7. This is where you need to select the right ISO image to create the bootable drive.

Once you find the file click on the 'Open' button. Step 8. The program will now begin the inspection of the ISO image you selected. It may take a few seconds. You will need to find the right ISO image first. ISO image files are mainly used to create Windows bootable disks and WinISO does a tremendous job making sure that your ISO image file is successfully burned so that you can directly boot from the disk. Also, if you need to extract any data from an ISO image file then also you can use this program without any anticipation.

As for the capacity size, 13GB is enough. Attention : If available, you can use a USB 3. You can download the free Demo version. Usually, the software will detect all inserted USB drives on your computer automatically.

If not, refresh it. Then choose the USB you will use. With it, you can enter a WinPE environment and use this software to repair Windows boot failure problems by rebuilding MBR , checking and fixing possible bad sectors.

Also you can delete or format the boot partition which cannot be done within Windows. Way 1. Way 2.