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Grab unetbootin , a copy of the latest clonezilla build (iso) , use unetbootin to install clonezilla to a usb drive, then boot to your usb, follow the prompts to do a disk-to-disk copy.
Edit: clarification
Linux live-boot usb, get the NTFS packages, mount the windows drives, and get your files off of it before the reinstall.
unetbootin page (you'll make a bootable usb with this)
lubuntu iso download (super lightweight distro with everything you'll need, plays well with unetbootin)
Feel free to ask me and /r/linuxquestions for help along the way, but it should be fairly straightforward.
also - take him to civil court and get some dosh
First, get on another computer and get an ISO burner, like this one: https://unetbootin.github.io/ (or another one, it doesn't matter).
Then, download an iso file for a linux distro like ubuntu: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Next, get a usb stick and format it. Then use the ISO burner to make a bootable usb stick with the ISO file.
Now plug in the usb stick to the broken computer, go to the bios boot menu by pressing f11 (or f2 or f12 depending on the motherboard).
Boot from the usb stick, select "try ubuntu before installing" from the GRUB boot menu, and attempt to recover your files.
Unless you've encrypted your disks or your computer is really messed up, you should be able to boot and view your files through the explorer, which should be enough for you to copy them to an external hard drive or put them on dropbox or something.
After you back up your stuff, reboot the computer, create a liveCD of the operating system you want to install (probably windows), boot from it and put in your liscence key and copy your files back
1 - You can make a flash drive with persistence to save files on your drive and keep them over sessions. I use UNetBootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/
2 - It's only a terminal you can run, so it won't be the same experience. Try using cd /mnt/c to access you C drive.
Have you looked into how you can try Linux?
If you're not sure whether you will like Linux it might be best to try it from a Virtual Machine or a LiveUSB before taking the plunge to a full installation.
The Virtual Machine may be far easier to set up initially. Install the program and create a new Virtual Machine, and the program does a pretty good job on guiding you through that stage. This will allow you to run a full Linux computer as a program inside Windows so you can play with it and see how it works in a safe environment.
With a LiveUSB, or a full install, you may need to configure your computer's UEFI to allow booting from a USB stick, and may also need to turn off some features and protections the UEFI provides (such as SecureBoot and, in some cases, Intel QuickBoot). Whether you have to do this, and how this is done, may vary from machine to machine. Once this is done, it should allow you to boot a LiveUSB, which will run a full Linux from the USB stick. This will run much faster than Linux as a Virtual Machine on Windows, as Linux will be able to address the full power of the computer directly.
> does it mean its amd64
Yes!
> also reading the guide there seems to be just so much stuff going on
You are right, this is why I didn't link this guide to you in the first place. However if you take a look at the table of contents you will probably realize that there is a ton of stuff in there that you don't need to read because it does not apply to you. This guide covers a lot of ground.
> i'm don't know what 4.3.3 means
Ah, I must admit that this part sucks if you use windows. The problem here is that this parts talks about how to setup the stick if you are using Linux already. What you should do is find a guide on how to create a bootable usb stick from Windows (or your OS) from an ISO. When I used windows, I loved this program: https://unetbootin.github.io/
>1. First question is it possible to install ubuntu onto the laptop from a cd or usb even with windows not woking properly?
It is possible to do this - the Ubuntu installer will allow you to reformat the hard drive, removing the broken Windows installation. Assuming, that is, that your Windows issues aren’t the result of a hard drive issue.
>2. Is it possible to create a bootable usb/cd for the laptop FROM an imac?
>3. If both yes where on the ubuntu website can i find this?
Ubuntu’s tutorial for creating a usb stick on OSX is here: https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#0
If you want something more automated, unetbootin is a good choice and is compatible with MacOS https://unetbootin.github.io
Check out unetbootin.
You can create a live usb with a persistent partition with it. But I am not sure how usable it is as a daily driver.
You might want to try other distros that are more tailored to this kind of things. Puppy Linux comes to mind but there are probably other alternatives.
Yo tengo relativamente poco tiempo usando distros de Linux (algo así como 3 años), comparado con el tiempo que he venido usando Windows (desde mi primera PC hasta ahora en la oficina). Si desarrollas tus actividades en una laptop, te recomiendo 100% alguna distro sencilla de Linux. Abajo mencionaron que inicies con Ubuntu o LinuxMint, y secundo la moción. El pana mencionó que usa Manjaro y de verdad a mi me parece tremendo distro. Te lo recomiendo para cuando te sientas más cómodo con el salto a Linux. El tema de recomendarlo para la laptop, es que Linux no usa tantos recursos del sistema como normalmente lo hace Windows y tiende a ser más minimalista. Esto no quiere decir que sea simplón, más bien resalta lo útil y desecha el bloat-software que normalmente acompaña a Windows. Siendo más objetivo, Ubuntu tiende a sentirse un poco como Windows en este aspecto del bloat-software, por lo que si escoges más adelante otro distro que sea fork de ArchLinux o Debian, notarás la diferencia.
Algunos Tips
1) Ten a la mano un pendrive que utilices con un solo objetivo y que tenga entre 2GB y 8GB de espacio. 2) Bájate el distro (o distros) de tu preferencia y con ese pendrive, create un live usb desde Windows UNetbootin es un programa chévere para hacerlo 3) Después de crearlo, reinicia tu ordenador y entra al Setup del BIOS. Allí busca la opción que te permita bootear (...) primero al USB y guarda las preferencias. 4) Inserta el pendrive y deja que cargue el instalador. Así como mencionó el pana anteriormente, tienes la opción de instalar el distro de Linux y dejarlo funcionar en conjunto con Windows (dual boot), tienes la opción de simplemente probar el distro sin instalar nada desde el mismo pendrive o simplemente, hacer una instalación desde cero (la opción que te borraría toda la información del disco, así que, pendiente). 5) ?????? 6) PROFIT!!!!
You can use tools with USB persistence, Rufus, UUI, UnetBootin do that.
For a completely new Linux user, I would recommend downloading a Linux Mint ISO. Burn it to either a DVD or a USB stick, UNetbootin has always been one of my favorite tools.
Boot into a Live environment, fiddle to your heart's content. Explore as much as you wish, get a good feel of the desktop, and how the window manager works. Mint by default runs Cinnamon, which- I feel is very "Windows User" friendly.
If it's not for you- nothing lost, nothing gained. Reboot back into Windows.
Here are the legit Windows 7 ISO checksums:
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Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 ISO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x86 Part- X17-59463 en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x86_dvd_u_677460.iso SHA1: 65FCE0F445D9BF7E78E43F17E441E08C63722657 ISO/CRC: 35511F11
x64 Part- X17-59465 en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677332.iso SHA1: 36AE90DEFBAD9D9539E649B193AE573B77A71C83 ISO/CRC: 992B8FCD
Windows 7 Professional SP1 ISO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x86 Part- X17-59183 en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x86_dvd_u_677056.iso SHA1: D89937DF3A9BC2EC1A1486195FD308CD3DADE928 ISO/CRC: E8C2AD67
x64 Part- X17-59186 en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso SHA1: 0BCFC54019EA175B1EE51F6D2B207A3D14DD2B58 ISO/CRC: AD44DB36
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 ISO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x86 Part- X17-58996 en_windows_7_home_premium_with_sp1_x86_dvd_u_676701.iso SHA1: 6071B4553FCF0EA53D589A846B5AE76743DD68FC ISO/CRC: 85B5EF4A
x64 Part- X17-58997 en_windows_7_home_premium_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676549.iso SHA1: 6C9058389C1E2E5122B7C933275F963EDF1C07B9 ISO/CRC: 4A182640
When you download one (should be available many places online since Microsoft used to distribute them pretty liberally), just enter your terminal on your Mac and do cd ~/path_to/downloaded/iso/ and run shasum <filename>.iso and see that it matches one of the above. Then burn that ISO to a DVD or create a bootable USB installer with Unetbootin.
Once you have Windows 7 installed on the machine, use Daz loader or KMSPico to activate.
Whoa, calm down there! The process is quite simple:
Create a USB drive (or a CD) using any number of tools (unetbootin is probably one of the more automated solutions)
Boot from it using your BIOS (or EFI) menu. Can't really help you on that, because it's basically unique to your computer, but look for something on the splash screen right when you turn on your computer for hints.
Follow the steps! The Ubuntu installer will walk you through most of the details-- no intervention required! You can choose to install alongside Windows (if you have that on your computer) or just wipe everything.
Good luck and welcome to Ubuntu!
Thanks for the responses.
I couldn't get HDDLiveCD to boot on a USB drive (either in BIOS mode or UEFI) created with Rufus, but it worked with UNetbootin.
I moved some files around on some of my other hard drives so I could get a blank 2TB drive for the clone/image and I'm currently running HDDSuperClone.
I'm going to let it run all night and hopefully get some good news in the morning.
Tem várias maneiras de começar a aprender. Vou apanhar aqui, mas virtualizar é a maneira mais simples! Começa com um ambiente virtual simples, depois vai expandindo conforme você aprende.
1- imagem docker: se você vai aprender desenvolvimento, aprender docker já te da uma vantagem bem legal. Pode seguir o tutorial aqui para instalar o docker no windows e rodar um terminal linux virtual, muito simples!
2- máquina virtual: mais divertido, pois te dá acesso de cara ao ambiente gráfico, mais familiar pra quem sempre usou windows. Tem esse tutorial aqui usando o VirtualBox.
3- boot de pendrive: roda o sistema a partir de um pendrive. Costumo usar o UNetBootIn pra preparar o pendrive, depois é só reiniciar o computador e mandar inicializar do pendrive. Dali você pode usar, instalar no computador, etc.
Quanto a distro, acho o Ubuntu mais amigável e estável para quem está começando.
Boa sorte!
On a windows computer install Unetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/). Insert a thunb/USB drive and run the program. You will have a choice of which Linux distro to write and it does all the hard work in creating the bootable installer..
Put the finished USB disk in the subject computer and boot from it.
I just did this last night! Be sure to pay attention to where you're actually installing it to. I thought I was installing it on my flash drive (and I did as a live CD), but when I installed the live CD I seem to have put it RIGHT ON MY PRIMARY HARD DRIVE. Heh. I'm thankful for recovery and backups this day.
I used unetbootin to create the startup USB. It was easy-peasy.
So the best option I've found is using unetbootin, just download and install the linux version: https://unetbootin.github.io/ Before you start: EVERYTHING WILL BE WIPED OUT!!! IF YOU HAVE IMPORTANT FILES, PUT THEM ON A DRIVE!!! (You're 2GB USB will do if it's not much or just documents) You'll need to select the ISO file that you download from the Windows site, and click the OK button. Once this is complete, you need to boot into the USB. Usually this is a button like F2, F11, or delete that you can press to boot from an external device (you'll need to check any documentation for your computer or motherboard if you aren't sure). Once you boot, you'll be presented with the windows installation dialogue, which once you choose the language and put in a product key for, you can choose the "Install Windows only" option. From there, you can delete all existing partitions (you can't do this from Linux Mint) and create a "new" partition in the "Unallocated Space". It will give you an error about the installation making multiple partitions for various reasons. Once you click Next, the installation will continue, your computer, once compete, will reboot into full Windows 10, and you can finish configuration using the on-screen prompts. There are some videos online if you prefer video instructions, just search for "Windows 10 installation" most of them should cover anything after you use Unetbootin to create the installation USB
You are going to need:
- 16 gb usb
- https://unetbootin.github.io/
- And a macOS iso. (I am making this now. They are impossible to find online so I have to make you one from my macbook) I will send you a DL link here shortly.
We are going to make a bootable macOS usb.
What? People usse it every day.
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Check out unetbootin https://unetbootin.github.io/
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It's a program that downloads and writes a full linux (or other) OS to a USB stick.
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Just boot off the stick once you've created it, and run a "live" version of linux out of the stick and RAM so you don't damage the existing OS on the HDD.
I don't use PPA's. I actually install things from source, if it ain't in my repositories.
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I have 608-1 in my MX repositories. If I want the current version 661, I would have to build from source. Which isn't hard to do at all.
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https://unetbootin.github.io/linux_download.html
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Tarball. I see there is also a binary ready to go.
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To run these binaries, download them and run the command
chmod +x ./unetbootin-linux
, or go to Properties->Permissions and check "Execute"), then start the application by running
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./unetbootin-linux
Try to make the bootable usb with Rufus and try to boot into the USB again after?
I don’t know if Macs use a Secure Boot, either? Like, so it doesn’t boot into anything other than Mac OS; try and see if it does and disable that, too.
EDIT: mac can not use Rufus, I apologize. Try https://unetbootin.github.io/ as your USB maker. I see a lot of people complaining about USBs made with Etchin.
There are FAQs at the bottom of the unetbootin page that may answer your question in regards to making the USB and your PC reading it after it's made.
Luckily, I wrote a comment today about something similar:
First, get on another computer and get an ISO burner, like this one: https://unetbootin.github.io/ (or another one, it doesn't matter).
Then, download an iso file for a linux distro like ubuntu: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Next, get a usb stick and format it. Then use the ISO burner to make a bootable usb stick with the ISO file. I think unetbootin has an option that downloads the ISO for you.
Now plug in the usb stick to the broken computer, go to the bios boot menu by pressing f11 (or f2 or f12 depending on the motherboard).
Boot from the usb stick, select "try ubuntu before installing" from the GRUB boot menu, and attempt to recover your files.
Unless you've encrypted your disks or your computer is really messed up, you should be able to boot and view your files through the explorer, which should be enough for you to copy them to an external hard drive or put them on dropbox or something.
If that doesn't work, and somethings messed up, you still have options as long as the hardware hasn't messed up, in which case you've lost your data and you need to buy a new hard drive.
After you back up your stuff, reboot the computer, create a liveCD of the operating system you want to install (probably windows), boot from it and put in your liscence key and copy your files back
You need to make a bootable media, a copy of the iso alone will not work.
You can download Win10 from here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
You will then need to use Boot Camp or UNetbootin to create a bootable flash drive.
Edit to correct Bandcamp to Boot Camp
Download the Win10 ISO from here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Then install UNetbootin to create a bootable USB drive. Available here - https://unetbootin.github.io/
There's a lot of different versions of linux. The guy above suggested lubuntu which is a good place to start. You need to make a live usb to install from. Check out UNetbootin.
It's similar to the way you would make a bootable windows install on usb. After you install select lubuntu from the drop down menu and the usb drive you want write too. This will make a bootable usb stick for you you. Then boot from that usb on your laptop.
You can do this: https://btc-help.lima-city.de/noobwallet/index.html
or you can create a paper wallet from an offline machine. Preferably a machine, that hasn't ever been online and won't ever be online.
You don't have to buy a new computer to do so. You can simply create a Linux USB drive and boot from it, after unplugging your computer, or simply not connecting to the WiFi. Also you have to put the bitaddress.org ZIP-file on a second USB thumb drive and create the paper wallet from that.
To easily create bootable Linux USB drives, you can use https://unetbootin.github.io/.
You won't be able to boot a legacy Windows install through Clover even if your motherboard supports legacy, as Clover is an EFI only bootloader. I'd use something other than Rufus to make the install disk - UNetbootin is macOS compatible, try that?
https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-vostro-430-core-i5-750-2-66-ghz-monitor-none-series/specs/
If these specs match your dell hardware accurately your pc should definitely not be uefi based bios.
This isn't a problem so much as pre uefi bios based pc's still work great with Linux. It's just important to understand the bios type your pc hardware uses.
Making a usb flash bootable for any Linux install in my experience has always worked best using unetbootin
Download the Linux install iso for the distro of your choice and use the iso file as the usb creation source. While unetbootin does offer distro specific bootable media creation options i find using a cd or dvd iso to be a more reliable and up to date option.
I also have an intel core i7-920 based pc that will not boot usb media using the usb ports. I have to insert the usb drive into the esata-usb port and that always works for me.
If all else fails just burning a dvd from windows with imgburn is always a valid option for creating install media
Unfortunately you're going to have to acquire some type of installation media, even if you just throw Linux back on there temporarily. There's a handy open-source app that runs on Windows called unetbootin that can make a bootable USB Linux drive from Windows if you can get access to someone else's computer.
Modern USB thumb drives are a few GB in size, Ubuntu and LinuxMint fit on those. A 2 GB thumb drive should be enough.
You can use https://unetbootin.github.io/ to create a bootable USB drive.
Between the mainstream distros, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, LinuxMint, openSuse, there isn't a considerable difference in security. You are airgapping it anyway, so a security hole doesn't affect you.
Presumably UNetbootin will work. You can get the ISO from here or by visiting the link above via mobile and choosing your own parameters for a direct download link.
>wiped my computer with a master reset of deleting all files.
Do you realize that Tails is a live operating system, meaning it runs off a flash drive?? (instead of being installed to the hard drive) You did not have to delete your current operating system to use Tails.
However what's done is done.
>Is there a way to run Rufus and download another os to a USB in tails os??
Yes.
Off the top of my head, I know that UNetbootin is pretty much the same thing as Rufus, but works on Linux. Go to the downloads page, click 'Debian' under 'Other Packages'. This will take you to Debian's package list. Pick 'Sid', scroll down to the bottom of the next page, click 'i386' then choose a server close to you. You should then be prompted to download the unetbootin .deb file. Once downloaded, open a terminal, and type dpkg -i <path to deb file>. This should install UNetbootin. Once installed, you should be able to figure out how to use it.
You can also use the command line program dd. Do a internet search to find instructions. Search 'dd make bootable flash drive linux'. Make sure your instructions tell you how to use DD to record an .iso image to a flash drive.
Yes. The official MS guidance for doing so can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
There's also third-party tools like UNetbootin or Rufus if you prefer.
Make sure your computer is cooled well. Bonus points for adding more fans and airflow
Because you can't boot to windows currently, try someting you can run live off the usb drive we mentioned earlier.
Unetbootin is a great tool I've used before to create bootable media. It's mostly linux distros and some tinyXPs, but most of it you can run right off the usb drive and see if theres something wrong with the HDD or the ram.
They are a great idea. Certainly for beginners. People are generally very good at keeping pieces of paper very secure. I bet you can produce your birth certificate right now and you had that for however old you are and you are probably going to keep it save until you die.
Here is a nice tutorial for creating paper wallets. I like the idea of creating a very secure, human readable passphrase of 24 random words and deriving as many paper wallets from it as you need. You'd really only have to secure the 24 random words.
If you want them as cold storage, doing everything from a live linux usb drive is again one of the most secure ways to do that.
Im assuming this is a laptop? get this to make the bootable usb and you might have to set your bios to boot legacy OS. pick the drive you want linux and and shrink it with windows drive manager(I think thats what its called, its built in) to get some unallocated space. boot the usb point the installer at the destination drive and tell it to aim for the largest free space should do the trick
Your post is not clear, but assuming you've got a windows ISO on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and you want to set up a USB drive for booting that ISO, then UNetbootin should be able to do that. You may have to compile from source.
In Win10, get a program called "unetbootin" and use it to burn one of the many distributions of Linux to a USB drive. Take that drive to a store like Walmart or any store and boot up your USB drive. Test that the sound, network et al all work and there you go........There is even a hardware test in the liveCD to check all of this for you.
No problem man. Here's a link to the official website to avoid any malware. https://unetbootin.github.io/
It also lets you download a distro image if you don't have one available. I use it all the time and have no problems with it. Enjoy!
I'd go for a Lubutu or other Lixus flavour solution as well. It has done a great job on the old netbook of my SO (got Mint there but if i'd reinstall i'd go for Lubuntu. Before that she couldn't even use it properly because it was so slow) and done a good job on my old Vista laptop (running Lubuntu, really fast imho altough I mainly use it for playing music) and last but not least my current work laptop (Mint, again) which was really slow as well.
If you're not relying on Microsoft products like MS Word etc., the Open Source alternatives are just as good (Libre Office comes pre-installed, Google Docs is supportet ofc), I'd strongly suggest to install Lubuntu or similar lighweight distros.
Don't get scared from what you heard about Linux, meanwhile the mainstream distros (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint, Xubuntu,...) are just as easy to use as Windows (if not easier) and you won't notice much differences in handling.
You can even try any distro out without actually installing it using a tool like UNetbooin to create a so called Live USB. You just need an empty USB-Stick with about 4-8GB space at least. Then you just have to plug the flashdrive with the live-system into your netbook and choose to boot from it. The OS will run from the USB and you can play around a bit without having to install it to your HDD. If you like it you can install right from that thumbdrive, if you don't you just unplug the USB, restart and everything is like nothing ever happened.
When installing it will tell you the minimun space requirement it needs, with any version of ubuntu i've always seen it requieres 6gigs.
The "files" are saved in a personal folder created by the OS just like in windows, and you can pass those files from one OS to the other (ubuntu to windows), you just have to know the directories where you can do that, for example in windows is X:/users/conrackx and in ubuntu is X:/home/conrackx. extremely advanced stuff right? (jk).
And for compatibility don't worry, that is almost NEVER an issue with Linux, just a couple of graphic related bugs but not big deal.
WARNING it's a very common mistake for people trying linux to install the OS and then (when they get bored) try to delete the partition as if this was just "delete Linux partition --> resize windows partition to have moar of em megabytes --> ?? --> profit!!" DON'T DO THAT, just read this and make sure to have your windows USB/DVD around, linux is friggin FUN and when you learn how to use it's tools, you will never stop using it, maybe not get rid of windows but dual booting will be a necessity, at least for me it is.
EDIT: when you finish playing with virtualbox use this tool it will extract the content of your Linux ISO to any 2gigs USB stick you have lying around, plug it, reboot, BOOT and it will give you 2 options (and others): INSTALL and LIVE TEST/TEST without installing, do a live test and it will run from your stick as if it was already installed, you can use everything but not tweak or save anything, this way you can see how it will perform on your computer.
It could be a bad iso image. Try downloading it again and reload it onto the USB stick. I use rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/ , or unetbootin https://unetbootin.github.io/ , to create bootable USB sticks.
It doesn't really work that way. It's all Linux at the boot level. If Ubuntu isn't booting off your stick, you won't magically have better luck with another distro.
I'm with /u/dually, I'd put money on it being the method you chose to create the thumb drive.
Format the drive completely, and use UNetbootin or Rufus to create the bootable USB.
Windows is the better gaming platform because linux games are for the most part a subset of the games available for windows. Gaming has gotten much better on linux over the past few years, thanks to desura, gog, steam, playonlinux, and a few others. But it's still not a reason to switch to linux. If you have other reasons to switch to linux, practical or philosophical, then grab unetbootin and a usb drive and try a live boot for a spin. Ubuntu or Mint are great starting places. They're popular so there's a lot of info out there on how to do something if you need help & good support for steam & some native game support. There are a few games I missed out on after switching a few years ago but if 40% of games out there have linux support and 90% of the games i actually play or want to play have support that was good enough for me to not have to deal with windows anymore.
Things that I prefer like a decent package manager for installing & updating software and a real shell instead of cmd or powershell that has it's own syntax instead of using cygwin and chocolatey in windows, or not having to worry about what data your closed source OS might be sending back to it's US based corporation are important to me, but I know a lot of people couldn't care about that stuff. If you're already a bit hesitant about upgrading to windows 10 it sounds like it's a good time to give linux a try, the worst thing is you burn a little time and find it's not for you.
I started out with unetbootin
It was very simple. If you've already downloaded the iso, it can use it to make a bootable usb stick for you. If you haven't, it can do that too. Once you can boot from the USB stick, you can play around with ubuntu to see if everything works as you expect before installing it for real.
I actually had this same issue at one point and can confirm it was just a issue with the bootable USB drive. If I remember correctly, creating the bootable drive with UNetbootin solved it for me.
I tried installing with the commands here: https://unetbootin.github.io/linux_download.html
and on the install I'm getting "unable to locate package unetbootin"
That's what unetbootin is for, but it's definitely not officially supported and it may or may not work for you. (You could end up with a system that doesn't boot either OS.)
If you don't want to run the risk of messing up the Windows boot process, I'd recommend running Ubuntu inside virtual machine software in Windows, such as Virtualbox (it's free!) or perhaps another option like VMWare product or WSL.
I used unetbootin https://unetbootin.github.io/ it will allow you to make a permanent area on the usb stick to save all your settings and stuff and it will pick them up on reboot, but beware the changes are saved into a iso image file that get mounted and overwrite the original stuff and it's limited to 4 gigs max, so I would suggest you after you've done it and boot it the first time, or couple of times until you have all that's needed to create a directory on the usb stick, set up steam game folders there and store all your other non steam games there, not in the home directory, otherwise those 4 gigs gonna run out pretty fast.
It's pretty straight forward and user friendly, try it for yourself and if you have questions i'm here.
It freezes after making a selection, not making any difference of what option you select right? After making the selection the smaller box will appear in the centre of screen? Sometimes this issue is caused by the installer not being able to load the display driver. If all options cause this(including the non-graphical installation) it's likely a bad flash.
Download a fresh copy of Debian 11, and try the flash again with the latest available version of Rufus. You can also try unetbootin.
>Then you can plug in only your new drive into PC and boot from USB.
I meant only new drive because your old drive might still contain bootable entries which will make motherboard try to boot from it. The best way to go is to keep it simple.
>Then attempt writing (the best way is to make another USB or bootable USB drive) with "Windows 10 Media Creation Tool".
I meant that you probably need two spare USBs or a USB and an external drive to be able to switch between Ubuntu and Windows Installer without constantly rewriting it and using the USB lifecycle
>Boot from that USB and point it to install on the new drive.
Basically, proceed with installation as usual
>Power down your PC
Turn it off. I meant turn it off so you can add another drive and then boot up again.
Yes you can prepare Ubuntu from a Mac. You just need to find how (with which app) to burn ISOs (drive images) to a USB device. Wait. I have found that UNetbootin is available for MacOS. Look here. It also can download Ubuntu distribution for you. There will be a version selector. Use the last version that has LTS in the name.
P.S.: I should've used a numbered list, it would've saved so much hassle. Let me know if I missed any points.
Either of these may work. You'll probably want to just have Windows 10 install over Ubuntu (erase everything) and then later on use your USB stick to install Ubuntu as the secondary OS. You can even get "grub customizer" for Ubuntu which will let your laptop boot straight into Windows rather than Ubuntu if you prefer.
There is an overview of how to do it with Mac here; https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-make-a-windows-10-usb-using-your-mac-build-a-bootable-iso-from-your-macs-terminal/
the steps will be pretty similar on Linux.
alternatively try something like Unetbootin ; https://unetbootin.github.io/linux_download.html
You might be able to do it with Unetbootin (I think it can provide persistent storage for any Ubuntu-based distro), alternatively MX Linux has a built-in persistent USB creation tool, which is also available as an AppImage for other distros. It's maybe not as pretty as Mint by default, but it also has XFCE by default so it can be modified to look like it if you want.
I see, so if your friend uses ubuntu, he has GParted and can format the ssd. You can also try to burn the usb drive using https://unetbootin.github.io/ if baleaetcher did not work.
First congrats on your interest in Linux.
Forget dual booting or a VM - too risky and too complicated IMO. What I used to try out Linux was a program called UNetbootin. UNetbootin enables you to put a Linux distro on a thumb drive and boot from that. No dual booting, no virtual machines...UNetbootin makes it easy to try Linux.
Good Luck!
You don't have a pendrive and access to another computer to make it a Live USB?
You'll just need to download Ubuntu from the official site, then there are many programs that will let you write the .iso file to a USB, on Windows you can use Rufus, it's about as easy to use as it gets.
Alternatively, you can use UNetbootin, to automatically download a selected distro and write it onto the USB (available for Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux as well).
did you use Unetbootin to make a bootable usb?
or did you use that hard drive install.mode feature?
>If you used the "Hard Disk" install mode: After rebooting, select the UNetbootin entry from the Windows Boot Menu.
I hope you did not use that feature. I have seen numerous posts of that feature breaking windows.
if you did use that mode, and it broke your system, then use a windows 10 usb to fix the bootloader, or see if the uefi menus let you boot directly into windows.
then I suggest using the Unetbootin feature to remove the Unetbootin install and use a more normal install method.
Did you use Unet5bootin to make a bootable USB? or did you use that Unetbootin 'feature' where it installs the linux distro onto the C: and then tries to setup the windows bootloader to load the Linux setup?
it SOUNDS like you used that feature.... which... well.. i have never seen it actually work, and i have seen posts where it has trashed peoples windows install..
So exactly what did you do?
https://unetbootin.github.io/ >> If you used the "Hard Disk" install mode: After rebooting, select the UNetbootin entry from the Windows Boot Menu.
If you have another computer you can try to download Ubuntu and use this program to install it on an USB pendrive (you'll need an empty one that's 4gb or more). Plug it to the laptop and press F12 or F8 (depends on the brand of your laptop) to boot from it. Then you choose the "try Ubuntu" option and it will load Ubuntu from the USB and you'll be able to access the files on the hard drive from it, and if it isn't damaged you can rescue them using and external hard drive. You can check r/linux for more help or PM me if you like.
IMHO you should grab the nearest thumb drive and usable PC and set yourself up a live boot linux install (E.G. Unetbootin), then see if the PC can boot that.
If it does boot, you probably just need a reformat/reinstall of windows.
Try Unetboot, https://unetbootin.github.io/. You select a distro and usb b drive and automatically downloads and formats usb drive to be ready for live usb. Next hopefully you can boot from usb in the bios.
As a quick fix, you could use Unetbootin to install a live linux mint OS to a flash drive. (if your computer supports USB boot) Comes with some basic drivers for video/webcam/sound/etc
as a fast fix, if you -just- need some basic internet and media functionality, and your computer allows booting from usb...AND you have a USB flash drive lying around
I would make a live boot linux install using Unetbootin . Multiple options come with unetbootin..mint is decent for an emergency OS install. probably not going to be able to access files in most win10 installs but you'll be able to go online and stream/use a webcam.
Someithing to try: Consider trying to create your boot media with Unetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/. I was unable to get my USB drive to boot when building it with the windows media creation tool.
Also double check that the USB drive is selected as the first boot device.
If it's going to boot, it's under 5minutes. Usually under 2minutes. Sometimes the boot doesn't take and rebooting can get better results. Usually the graphics driver is the problem.
I've had great runs with Rufus in the past. UNetbootin is popular now. Ventoy is what I'm using lately.
For Linux I use terminal dd.
dd if=/home/username/Downloads/linuxmint-20-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdY bs=8 status=progress
Nothing guarantees any of these will work on your machine. If the hardware isn't compatible at boot, try a different distro. Insure the USB is capable of being a boot device. When I kick things hard enough, I get a working system. And yes, using a different boot disk creating utility has worked in my past. Often.
Unless it's hardware. Then it's the video card. 9 times out of 10 I'm 100% right ;)
You've downloaded an ISO file which is an image of the install media instead of the Windows Media Creation tool. What OS is the device you used running? Anyways that's fine as well. You can use a program like Unetbootin to write the iso file to your USB drive. Run it then select "Diskimage", select the iso file you downloaded, select the USB drive you want to use and double check you selected the right drive and there are no important files on it, it will be erased next. Hit OK.
When it's done you can use the USB drive to install Windows.
Depends on if you currently have Windows or Linux. If Windows, I recommend rufus, Unetbootin is a Windows Linux app that has gained popularity, for command line on Linux there is dd, an iso to disk utility. 'if' is the "input file" ", 'of' is the "output file" Walkthrough here.
No, the ubuntu install was dead easy. I put in a new SSD, booted from a usb key that I made (loads of instructions on this but I used UNetbootin), booted up holding down the option key, choose EFI, clicked install!
That would be amazingly wonderful if you could give it a try! Which card do you have? I was thinking of getting the RTX 2060.
I have heard that the Nvidia card needs a) more power than the Mac provides and b) needs a different power cable. Can you confirm either of these?
Save as .bin.
This is in particular very useful to clone/backup a raspberry sd card , it's well documented.
The GUI tool unetbootin can do that as well. https://unetbootin.github.io/
⚠️ The host system must be of the same architecture, than the remote, other issues are probable even if it boot well.
It is possible to create windows installation media from a mac, but there is no tool. also it does not take 40gb to create installation media, it takes 40gb to install windows on a mac. instead, look up “windows 10 iso” and go to the link on the microsoft website. Make sure it’s from microsoft. also make sure the website is secure. then download the windows 10 ISO file. Then download an application called “UNetBootIn”. https://unetbootin.github.io/. Then launch it with the usb drive inserted. Select the “diskimage” option. on the right of that, it should have a drop down. from that drop down select “ISO”. on the right of that, navigate to your iso in your downloads folder and select it and press open. on the bottom select “USB Drive” and select your drive. the click “ok”. wait and it’s done. it should work now! you can also look up “create windows 10 install media from mac” if you want i guess.
Do you have a second computer available? You can try creating a Linux Live USB (https://unetbootin.github.io/) and try to boot that. If that fails then it's most likely hardware related.
Standard (64-bit) should work best for you. Legacy is for 32-bit PCs and Hwe is for very new machines. Rufus is your best bet for creating an install USB. Unetbootin should also work and doesn't require reformatting the USB stick.
If you're building it from a Windows computer, use the media creation toolkit
If you're using a Mac or Linux computer, use that same link to download the .iso and use unetbootin to create the drive with that .iso.
Or instead of wasting time watching the video:
1) Use Rufus to format the drive (or any other formatter you have lying around; MiniTool, whatever)
2) Use https://unetbootin.github.io/ to write the ISO.
You're welcomed for the extra eleven minutes of life.
ah, no honey don't do this.
I'm a mac/gaming PC guy too so don't feel bad but this isn't the right way to make a windows boot drive, while you're inclinations were right for a .dmg of MacOS... windows is not macOS.
You need to use special software to get that .iso onto your USB, and provision it correctly so the PC can boot from it.
Fortunately, unetbootin is free and will do exactly that. https://unetbootin.github.io/
It might have a 32bit EFI. Check out this site
And Etcher created USB sticks will not work on older computers. try UNetbootin instead
Check this software out. Have used it numerous times for setting up portable Linux HDs / Boot Drives. Check out the page on Ubuntu.com for setting something like this up as well.
If you used Media Creation Tool, try Rufus instead. If you're using Mac to create the Windows USB use UNetbootin.
Failing those options, try a different thumb drive.
The reason I suggested this route was for you to find a distribution that you liked, and also start understanding the devices.
If you want to dive straight in May I suggest you use a USB key. This would be way safer, and less time-consuming with reinstalling each time.
If you have a product key, go here.
Else, go here and download the torrent for your desired version.
After you've downloaded the iso, use UNetbootin to flash it to a USB drive.
Download UNetbootin and flash the Windows iso to a USB drive, plug it in and erase all partations.
Select the unallocated space and press "Next". Windows will set up the partition table for you.
Try using Linux! Download UNetBootIn and Linux Mint. Use UNetBootIn to copy the Linux Mint ISO to a flash drive. Boot from the flash drive, and Linux will run right off the flash drive without touching your hard drive. Within Linux Mint there are programs like gparted and disks that can clone your drives and will likely throw fewer issues than Windows.
Since this is old, not sure if you're still looking into this or not.
You can make Ubuntu live with persistence, I believe UNetbootin also lets you make a Ubuntu USB with a persistence file.
Puppy Linux also supports persistence (or at least it did ~2006 or so when I had it on an old IBM machine).
You can have it for free guys, it's a nice occasion to try Linux if you didn't do it, I always used this software : https://unetbootin.github.io/ It let you choose what Linux distro you want in the USB drive, downloads and creates the bootable device, that's it. Go with Ubuntu if it's your first time using linux.
Quasi quasi avrei preferito fosse hardware il problema hahah cambi un pezzo e va, invece se è software mi tocca smadonnare. Ho trovato questo sito per creare una live-USB, mi fido? https://unetbootin.github.io
Hmm, i just found this
https://unetbootin.github.io/
that looks like it might let me do what needs doing. But I really want persistence, so I can install a few apps, change the theme, icons, wallpaper, etc, and have that stick on booting from the usb stick.
Just to hijack this thread, here's how you can copy files off it. The risk is that if the hard-drive is in fact dead, accessing it can cause more damage. This is fine to do if the data is nice-to-have but not critical.
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Here are the instructions. You'll need a 4GB flash-drive, and a high-capacity flash drive/external hard-drive:
- Put a flash-drive into the computer (4GB will do) - warning: it will delete the files on it, so copy important ones off
- Run UNetbootin from here: https://unetbootin.github.io/
- Select Lubuntu, and 18.04_Live_x64
- Select the flash-drive, and go through the process.
- When it's finished, safely remove it from the laptop you're on.
- Plug in the flash-drive into the computer that's not working and change your boot order to boot from it. The way to do this depends on the computer, hence the page.
- Select "Try Lubuntu without installing".
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- When the desktop has loaded, click the equivalent of the Windows start icon in the bottom left corner. Click "Accessories", and click "File Manager PCManFM"
- At the left hand side of the screen that pops up, you will see your Windows drive with the name "OS" or "Windows" with a disk icon beside it. Click that.
- If it opens, you can copy the files you need to a high-capacity flash-drive, or an external hard-drive. You can open the file-manager again to drag-and-drop what you need.
It might be best to see if it's actually a driver problem, then. I'm thinking a Linux live-USB stick will do the job, since it uses a completely different driver. If it happens in Linux, it's probably an electrical problem.
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- Put a flash-drive into the computer (4GB will do) - warning: it will delete the files on it, so copy important ones off
- Run UNetbootin from here: https://unetbootin.github.io/
- Select Lubuntu, and 18.04_Live_x64
- Select the flash-drive, and go through the process.
- Restart the laptop with the flash-drive in and change your boot order to boot from it.
- Select "Try Lubuntu without installing".
- Try putting the AC cable in again - does it still flicker?
- (The shutdown button is in the bottom right corner)
How did you make the USB? You have to use a tool like unetbootin or install it via the terminal to get the USB to work. If you just dropped the .iso on the flash drive, that won't work as .iso's are disc images and aren't bootable via USB.
I don't have a Mac but UNetbootin looks promising https://unetbootin.github.io/
Use the diskimage option and locate the ISO and then click OK to begin.
Unfortunately other methods require use of Bootcamp or terminal but I'm not sure how comfortable you are doing that.
I would suggest a HP Gen 10 Microserver, but for that amount of data you'd need 4x6tb drives in order to do raid 5.
As for OS, yes it needs to be installed (I tend to go with linux as I know it well, but Windows works as well). You can install various versions of Linux from a pen drive using UnetBootIn, it makes a bootable drive so you can install the OS. 9 times out of 10 if you have a question, google will answer it.
No, it's Windows only. What is that Windows boot manager entry on the screenshot then ? I thought you had a working Windows install.
Anyway. On the Linux side you can use UNetbootin to create the bootable USB.
This is a pretty easy tool to use. I haven’t tried net install but you’re supposed to be able to load a usb with only internet access. Or it will write an iso to the device for you.
If you don’t want to download any software look up instructions for writing an *iso to a device with ‘dd’ from the terminal (I’m not %100 sure if Macs come with dd as I’m not very familiar with Unix)
There is a program called unetbootin that will let you download a variety of live USB iso's. It's completely automated, and very easy to use.
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You can also download installers if you choose.
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Sorry for such a late reply.
I read your post more clearly and it looks like you are trying to burn this software, the UNetbootin onto a USB?
https://unetbootin.github.io/
It seems that you install it by running
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unetbootin
It it will help you install further USB's
https://unetbootin.github.io/#faq
If so that doesnt really make a lot of sense. You can think of an iso file as a mini harddrive image. It will have on it (generally) a boot partition/EFI partition, a kernel, some basic programs etc. They are used to install operating systems, do system rescue, etc
They must be a careful binary format with their own paritions built in to be bootable, it is otherwise very unlikely it will boot properly.
I would recommend dd'ing a normal linux distro installer onto a usb, compare the fdisk output.
I think you are confused I'm not 100% clear on what you want to do.
I really don't see how PartedMagick is better at booting than any other linux live usb (that comes with partitioning related tools).
It's a standard ISO image that you can burn to an USB and then boot off of it.
Moreover the installation instructions don't exist and simply point to the home page for UNetbootin, which can coincidentally be used to burn pretty much any linux live USB image to an USB drive.
I only read about half your post before it got deleted but it sounds like you're trying to make a bootable usb drive.
Have you tried this flashing tool? https://unetbootin.github.io/
Is your laptop using BIOS or UEFI to boot? If it's made in the last 5 years it's probably UEFI. You could try setting the bootable option in your BIOS settings to allow UEFI or BIOS