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This is just a video of clicking next, next, next, next, finish with YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator which creates a USB with a bunch of Live ISOs.
That's cool, but that's not the same as installing to a USB Flash Drive. I have Ubuntu installed to a high perf. USB 3.0 flash drive, just like you would installing to an external HDD. It boots up instantly and runs like an SSD. It works just like an internal HDD install. Everything updates normally and not casper FS limitions or performance issues. Ext4 is also fairly gentle to your flash in terms of write wear.
For an IT bag of tricks, the multi-boot is probably more useful. But for carrying your OS/data in your pocket, installing to the USB drive is the way to go.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Every ISO is a selectable option on the boot menu of the USB drive.
You boot from the USB drive and then the multiloader lets you select what you want to do
This is what I've used. Near the bottom of the page, there's a list of supported distro's (it's a tab). Windows is listed in "Other".
I'm a big fan of Yumi for my multiboot needs.
Current live-CDs on my USB:
- AVG rescue CD
- FreeDOS (balder10)
- CloneZilla
- DBAN
- Gparted
- Kali
- Ubuntu 15.04
- ntpasswd
Other software on there:
- ADTidy
- CCleaner
- CryptoLocker Removal tools
- Delprof
- KeePass
- NotePad++
- Putty
- Recuva
- Swiss File Knife
- Sysinternals
Other items:
- BIOS updates for most systems in my environment.
- Documents and forms for various uses (pretty handy to have a resume or a contract on you in emergencies).
- Scripts for various purposes.
The USB-key is with my car-keys so I practically always have it on me, but I haven't really needed it for a while.
First of all, you would do better to use a more descriptive post title than 'please help'.
As far as your Win install goes, what you need to do is just format the drive and start over. You could either do this with a disc utility on a USB stick, or else when you go to install Windows again, it should (I think) give you the option to format the drive before proceeding with the install. Either way you will need to set your BIOS (i.e your machine) to boot from your USB stick or optical disc, if that's what your installing from.
There are various bootable USBs available that should give you the means to format the drive if you want to do it that way.
https://www.sarducd.it/sardu-multiboot-creator
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Edit: found this - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/how-do-i-format-a-drive-to-install-windows-10-pro/74c039cf-6846-4bad-9299-893d5466a6dd
Try Googling 'windows 10 format drive before installing' for similar links.
Your options will be either YUMI or MultiBootUSB. You could also look for something along the lines of the Zalman ZM-VE350, an external hard disk you can upload iso files to to boot from.
My personal favourite however, is a rooted android phone with a 64GB(or other size) microsd card and run DriveDroid (DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone.)
Get YUMI, then boot to any of these anti-virus/anti-malware ISOs:
Acronis Antimalware CD
AOSS (Malware Scanner) system\stage1
AVG Rescue CD (Antivirus Scanner)
AVIRA AntiVir Rescue CD (Virus Scanner) ; does install to root of drive
Bitdefender Rescue Disk (Antivirus Scanner)
Comodo Rescue Disk (Antivirus Scanner)
Dr.Web Live CD ; does install to root
F-Secure Rescue CD
GDATA Rescue CD
Kaspersky Rescue Disk (Antivirus Scanner)
Panda SafeCD
Windows Defender Offline
Yes. Download YUMI if you want to create a USB boot disk, then select Clonezilla from the Tools section and it will allow you to download the ISO, then "burn" it to USB.
I’ll let you source your backup medium, but the backup is nothing but time.
To save with hassles like longfilenames and files-in-use, I always use Linux life for the back.
- Download an ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 (I prefer Mate) from here: https://linuxmint.com/release.php?id=26 and use...
- YUMI https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ to install it on a USB stick.
- Boot each machine with the Live version of Linux on the USB stick and navigate to the drives to copy the contents to your backup medium.
That’s pretty much it. There’s almost never a need to pay for software. Some of the best stuff out there is provided free by some very generous and intelligent people.
Good time to ask this question. What is the best solution for having multiple boot images on a single usb memory stick? I use YUMI Multiboot disk creator at the moment but I have heard about a better solution where you just drop the ISO files to the disk and off you go. I just cannot remember it!
Download the smallest Linux Live distro you can find. Download https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Install it to a USB with YUMI. Reboot the computer press boot selection key select USB device and then boot in to the live environment and copy your files off using a nice GUI interface and being able to browse all the files visually.
Yup, just checked Debian and Wacom is supported (I strongly believed it was but I wanted to double-check), but it takes a little doing to get it working. Since Ubuntu and Mint are both downstream, they should have it, too, and it's probably easier if not working out of the box. Just make yourself a few live USB's (start here) and fiddle around.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ Super useful, can load up a 64GB drive with a ton of bootables and utilities, easy to setup, easy to clone and standardize with something like imgburn.
Nothing like what you're asking for exists to my knowledge.
It seems like you'd probably be served just fine by a Multiboot manager though, and there are tons of options for that:
There are a number of others as well.
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you can use YUMI to create a bootable usb. rufus might work too but i've never tried.
Linux on an persistent USB key.
Choose and download a user friendly distro like Mint or MX, download YUMI in order to create the persistent USB key. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
This way you will be able to use linux during live sessions (booting with the USB drive) on your dad's computer without installing linux and save your settings or work.
its possible that wires connecting screen to mobo are crushed pretty bad.
try bootable usb with windows or linux distro and check if visual glitch persists
Unless something has changed in the last 2 years, you can 100% bring it home and use it for training purposes. It was highly encouraged at my precinct, so you don't have to use up time at work simply exploring the toolset.
MRI itself is custom built Windows PE disc, with lots of business license programs loaded onto it, TDSS killer, Acronis, Webroot, etc.
As others have said, there are a lot of free tools you can use. I'd recommend YUMI on top of what others have recommended: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ because you can load a bunch of tools on to the same flash drive, and YUMI is just a bootloader for all of them.
I don't like UNETbootin I had trouble with it as well.
I created a boot USB with a ton of Linux distro's using https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Give that a try, I hope it works better and that you'll succeed.
Create an account to get a free ESXi license.
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor.html
Download the ISO, and also download YUMI.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Open YUMI, select your flash drive, ISO, and scroll all the way down on the distribution screen and select "Try Unlisted ISO (GRUB from RAM)."
You can now boot from the flash drive, and then install the OS directly to the same flash drive.
Looks like there is something wrong with the drive image. Is mGAMe its own OS (never heard of it before)? I use a program called yumi to create boot drives for linux unless I have access to dd.
At this point you could either spend hours on trying in Windows or simply boot Linux from a flash drive and delete/rename everything you want without caring about Windows permissions. I know it's not a fix, but a workaround that saves you another headache. If you want to go down that route I would recommend YUMI, because it doesn't format your flash drive and keeps the files on it.
You may be able to use Yumi or something like it:
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/#YUMI-UEFI
Here’s how it (could) generally work:
- Create virtual machine, install Yumi
- Place ISO file(s) in supported directory
- Boot disk with Yumi from machine to backup/restore
- Select ISO and boot
Benefit here is keeping the image small and easy updating of contents (by just dropping one or more ISO files in image). May not work with whatever your backup solution is but might be worth a shot.
- It is a bit of a learning curve.
- Linux Mint is a pretty good choice to start on.
- Using the 'download link' option, the YUMI software will download the ISO for you to install to a USB.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
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Use that to make the USB drive bootable, partition it so you can run 3 OS's.
check out: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
then you can load all manner of diagnostic/anti-virus/os. Falcon Four's Ultimate Boot CD, Hirens Boot CD, Windows 10 Recovery, (all version windows same pen drive) etc. Other apps: Acronis Disk Director, EaseUS partition master, power iso, winrar, bootable antivirus like Eset. I have a couple of these 32GB drives that can solve most problems. all the other apps mentioned here are great too, I am a big fan of WinDirStat, I will be checking out SpaceSniffer.
No, I don't think Windows 10 will boot off a USB device yet.
You can try some installation CD or if you have a spare USB flash drive, download some Linux and make a bootable USB drive. My goto are
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop and https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
- it will need to erase all data on the USB drive to install, in YUMI select "Format as FAT32" and find Ubuntu in the drop down menu. You will need to check yourself how to get a boot menu for your laptop model: try hitting F8, usually its the default. If you see the penguin starting at you: success! You can select Ubuntu there and it'll again ask you to Just run ("Live-CD"), yeah no installation. If it boots into desktop: 100% confirmed your laptop is fine.
well you make your partition then install 1 .iso on to your usb drive, then when it asks are you done or would you like to add another you just click add another. its super simple once you get the partitioning down and all your iso's downloaded. you can even go back later and add more if you want. yumi here is the tool i used to make it.
You can use yumi YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator apps and run windows software with windows emulator wine app for mac os
Yumi Live USB Creator
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Wine Windows Emulator for Mac OS
Dell officially support Linux on Latitudes so I would be extremely surprised if there would be any problems at all. Just grab a pendrive download Ubuntu, use this tool for example. Its very easy and you wont be able to mess up your windows install. Keep in mind that initially you will have a live USB and it will forget every change you make, every file you download. You have two options from there, you either set up persistence which can be a bit tricky, but the installer I linked should be able to do it, or you install the system on the USB. In any case this is not some vodoo magic its very easy just give it a try!
edit: grammar.
What is your end goal?
Running the thumbdrive as a "boot drive"?
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If so, take a look at Yumi.
Get a FAST USB drive and make a bootable USB key with Yumi and try out multiple flavors of Linux. I HIGHLY recommend Mint, as a windows alternative.
what tools are you using, and what is the system you are using exactly? I tend to use the various tools from the PenDrive Linux web site for making a 'live + Persistence' usb setup. Your whole post is a little bit confusing.
So lets clarify..
You want a LIVE setup + Persistance, NOT a 'normal install onto the usb' ?
What tools did you use. My 'summary' of tools..
. Unetbootin - Best avoided - i have had to many issues with it. (you may get lucky)
. Etcher - can not add persistence - My main tool.
. Rufus - Again I do not think it can do Persistence
. UUI - https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ What i have used with great success in the past. Can make a Persistence file.
.YUMI - https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ - Used in the past to make Multi Disrto Flash Drives. Can make a Persistence file.
. Others - I am sure other people will mention more.
Try different USB boot drive software. YUMI worked fine for me, even though it used FAT32. It is also possible to reset Windows without a boot drive either through the settings menu or advanced boot options.
I would go here and download the YUMI app you can safely test different distributions on a USB drive without worrying about messing up your hard drive.
I have always liked yumi Other ISO's I would include (personally): *Hirens 15.2R (though, it's a bit dated) *Kali (For wifi cracking/pentesting) *A secure linux(like Tails or something)
Try bringing up cmd on Windows and run: chkdsk /r E/F/G: (Whatever the drive letter is). Then you might be able to format it.
If you've tried that, try installing linux to a DVD and booting up with a liveCD and nuke the drive with gparted. I would format it to RAW then plug it back into windows and format it. If gparted can't format it, the USB drive is probably dead.
Also, I prefer yumi over unetbootin.
Download ISO from here: (I hope it works) (Windows 8.1) https://www.microsoft.com/fi-fi/software-download/windows8
And I recommend that you don't use USB media creator witch comes with that program because I have had some problems with Win 10 installer with same download method. Download only ISO and use YUMI to create bootable USB. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
There is web full of guides how to use programs, so you can search it up.
I used to use Yumi for a while but got fed up of booting a VM each time to do it.
So yes. multibootusb is what I use now. I like that is has EFI support now.
It's possible, but not ideal. It would permanently change the external drive to boot the Windows iso when plugged in. That's not really a problem, because you can change the boot order in BIOS if that happens. If you have an optical drive I would just burn it to a DVD. If that's not possible, get YUMI, run it, select "Show all drives" and select your external HD. Chose Windows/Single Windows Vista/7/8/10 installer. Browse to your iso and then create. Then reboot, change the boot order in BIOS so that the external drive boots first and run Windows installer. After you have installed Windows, change the boot order in BIOS again to start with your SSD.
Edit: YUMI doesn't delete the contents of your external drive, that's why it's preferable over the Microsoft tool.
- Your CPU cooler will probably come with thermal paste.
- No need to buy any extra cables since you are using two drives and the fans that come with the case includes the cables.
- You can install Windows by downloading it and use a tool like this to make the flash drive bootable.
- There's no problem with ordering from one site but you will probably find it cheaper to order from multiple sites.
With Yumi it's really easy to create a multiboot with lots of OS setups. Freedos, linux, windows, partitioningtools, everything together on one usb.
Assuming you want to dual boot, install linux AFTER windows in installed. The linux disto should see the windows partition and ask if you want to resize the hard-drive. That assumes you dont have an empty partition to install linux to.
You could run a live-cd version of linux if you dont want to or cant install linux along side of windows.
To share files between the installed OSs, you could create a fat partition or use a cloud storage account.
--edit-- You can use YUMI (https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/) to create the live-cd linux.
Did some searching around because it seems like an interesting collection of tools. Only thing I found at that size though was something from /u/Nochamier at nearly 55gb from a couple of years ago. Couldn't find anything else but I'd take a look at /u/Nochamier 's subreddit /r/techtools. It hasn't been updated in a while but seems to contain quite the collection of tools.
Other than that you can always throw several Hiren type isos into something like YUMI to create a multiboot flash drive with multiple Hiren-esque packages out there.
Good luck either way!
You could certainly use another computer to help you do this.
Let's say, for example, you have a computer running Ubuntu. You could plug the USB drive into the running system, use GParted to edit the partitions on the USB drive, then use Rufus to install GRUB and Syslinux onto the first partition. You could then put additional operating systems on the other partition.
The easy way, however, appears to be to use a program like this: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
As long as you have ISOs of the OSes you want to install, you can put as many on the USB drive as you have room for.
Yup, Yumi can do this
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
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I am unaware of any single ISO that incorporates all of the tools, but you can build a USB stick to handle any that you have now plus any that you find in the future.
If you are going to install Kali along side windows make sure you use two separate physical drives not just two separate partition as windows updates could break your boot loader.
I cant remember which of these tools i used to create the bootable USB to install Kali.
Universal USB Installer: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
I think it was this one. YUMI: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
With YUMI you can also create a persistent file USB allowing you to install software onto a live image though it's limited to 4GB due to the limits of FAT 32 unless thats an option for NTFS now
Well, you could use a "live" system by creating a bootable usb drive with a linux OS. There are tools like YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator
From the page: > Use it to boot from USB your favorite Live Linux portable Operating Systems, Linux and Windows Installers, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, backup, penetration testing, diagnostic tools, and much more. This Universal USB tool makes it easy for anyone to create their own customized multi purpose Bootable USB.
Using that tool allows you to prepare a bootable usb drive with a multitude of tools and operating systems, it has a built-in list to choose from.
Or you could follow the steps from the ubuntu page and install it via Rufus:
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview
Either way you plug the prepared usb device into the laptop and boot from it. You might have to manually select the usb drive by pressing a key when starting the laptop, often DEL, F2, F8, F10-F12.
Then use the tool of your choice to browse the harddisk, should it be encrypted you won't be able to access it.
Not tried it in years, but I just saw on the web site while looking to see if they had a Linux version..
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
>> Running YUMI from LINUX: WINE is NOT currently working.
Currently I don't have a windows or need to make a usb to verify one way or another.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's been awhile since I've played with it, but it's pretty much all built in & all the same as simply adding another ISO through the list / options.
I can't recall the name, but there is a tool that let's you save ISO in directories on a flash drive and it boots to a menu that lets you select which ISO you want to boot into. A sort of multi-loader from a single USB. If you could convert your VM into an ISO, that might do what you're trying to do. Or maybe find a way to make the tool launch OVAs.
http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/downloads/ this one looks fairly promising
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ So does this.
I think Ventoy is the one I've used before: https://4sysops.com/archives/ventoy-boot-multiple-iso-images-from-a-single-usb-stick/
YMMV and you'd need to get you VM converted into an ISO.
It is not difficult to set up Linux to run from a USB drive, but it will be slower than a normal installation and your storage will be limited. Here is are a couple of tutorials for creating a bootable USB drive - the second is best done from a Windows machine.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
There seem to be more ways than you can shake a stick at. As well as the ones others have mentioned there are also YUMI and SARDU.
Try again with Etcher, never had an issue. You didn't specify if you tried these two utilities but also try YUMI (https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/amp/) and UUI (https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/amp/)
Sounds like you need to create a recovery flash drive. I suggest using Rufus to download and create a bootable Windows ISO to repair your computer. Either that or put Ubuntu on a flash drive so you can copy files to the external drive.
YUMI is a windows only tool but does this sort of exact job. Installs GRUB to the USB and uses that to load up different operating systems stored on the drive. As far as I know, it doesn't do partitioning for them, but... it's interesting, but it works.
I used it till I migrated over to relying on network boot using netboot.xyz for everything since I wouldn't have to update the images anymore :P
I had gone down the Linux boot key path many times and its worked majority of the time. You can use the software yumi to build the boot key.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/amp/
Or try use a usb to sata lead which can be picked up for cheap on Amazon
Even if you somehow manage to do this, you're gonna have a bad time. If you really want a portable operating system that runs really well on an external SSD, you're much better off using a Linux distro with a large persistence partition to retain data, software, and settings between sessions. You can even have multiple OS on the same drive.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Boot up from a live Linux USB stick running Ubuntu or similar. ( https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ )
Copy everything you want from your old PC to a backup hard drive. Linux doesn’t care about Win7 NTFS file permissions - it’ll just backup your data as fast as your machine can get it to the drive.
Copy backups to your new Win10 machine where required.
Win10 will assign new user permissions and file ownership as you copy the data in.
For this method, I had access to a computer running windows. Also, it will destroy anything on the usb drive, so copy everything off that's important.
Download Yumi EFI version (not the regular version). Scroll all the way down to the bottom. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Format your usb drive FAT32 using GUIformat: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Yumi UEFI Edition:
Step 1) Make sure you pick the correct drive!
Step 2) Pick one of the supported types : Lubuntu
Step 3) Load your ISO of Lubuntu
Step 4) If you want a live to retain settings, adjust the slider for storage on the usb
Step 5) Press install
Then you can either continue installing ISOs or insert it into your hp stream
Hp stream:
Plug in your usb drive
Boot and press ESC, pick F10 (BIOS). Go to system config
Disable secure boot and enable legacy support, reboot.
Press ESC and F9, change to UEFI Usb drive and it should boot your pen drive with your linux distributions. If you install more than one using YUMI to your usb drive, then you will have multiple options to choose from. I recommend trying Kubuntu and linux mint XFCE as well. Those both ran pretty well on my HP Stream.
I use YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer) from https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ on Windows PC to create bootable USB stick with a lot of Linux distros on the same USB stick. YUMI supports most of Linux distros. YUMI USB stick is good for linux testing on your hardware. For full Linux install to hard drive use UUI software (same website).
Random note, there's also YUMI, which also can create a USB with multiple ISOs, and even though it's for Windows only, it works through WINE aswell: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
I usually use this https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/. It allows you to put different operating systems on the usb and other useful tools like UBCD etc. My one is installed in my pc permanently in an internal usb port.
Microsoft has their own usb install tool too.
You could create a bootable image with persistent storage with YUMI. After that you can tweak the mounter to never show any peripheral except for /dev/sda1, but I don't know how to do that on Ubuntu. Someone else might be able to help.
I have this (not as secure as step 4, but you should be able to use something like BitLocker).
It's been a bit since I've done this, but I believe the first step was to partition the flash into 2 drives. Then I used YUMI to create the multiboot.
My first partition is Windows 10 (installer) and Ubuntu. My 2nd partition is storage / PortableApps.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
USB 3.0 128GB thumb drive will suffice (more diskspace is a plus but 100GB will plenty for a portable system like this.). Have fun.
You put Linux on the USB. You restart the PC and choose the USB to boot from. Now you'll have Linux running from the USB and you can do anything to the Windows drive. Including completely yeet it, as you aim to do. Afterwards you'll have to do the reinstall from a Windows 10 USB. If you only have a single USB stick but it's large (8 GB or above) you can use YUMI to make a multiboot USB - means that both the Linux image and the Windows installer can live on the same USB. Make sure you can boot into both before you wipe the windows, of course.
Give Yumi a try from pendriveapps
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
It will allow you to install multiple live distros on it and also add persistence while adding a distro.
No need to be limited to one distro. Start with YUMI.
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
If you don't already have a copy of a particular distro you want to use, YUMI provides links. It is a multi-boot creator. You can have as many distros as you can fit on the drive, with a menu to choose from them. There are not only standard distros, but links to puppy and slacko, as well as a very long list of diagnostic and cleaning tools you can add. It is a small program as well.
Start it up, pick the drive, and look through the list of distros the program keeps track of. Download the ISOs, tell YUMI where it is, decide if you want to be a persistent installation (if applicable), wait for it to be installed to the flash drive, and say yes if you want to add another distro to the drive. When you are done, say No at that final question.
Easy Peasy.
I'm pretty sure this is the answer that OP is looking for.
Similarly, why not create your own? YUMI is a superb tool for multiboot USB's, however it only supports a single persistent casper volume if I remember correctly.
Personally I've been using YUMI for ages to create a USB swiss army knife for "disaster recovery / troubleshoot" situations.
I like to use Yumi. It's a multi iso boot installer, and I've never had trouble with persistence.
Maybe. Maybe. And... maybe.
If you have access to another computer, you can see if it is somehow the drive itself that is the problem, by booting to a Live OS on a flash drive. I recommend using a tool like Parted Magic https://partedmagic.com/ as it has just about every tool you'd need all in one Operating System, and you can use a program like YUMI https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ to put it on a flash drive. You'd download Parted Magic, and download YUMI. You'd run YUMI, and use it to put the ISO of Parted Magic on the flash drive. You'd then boot your Acer Aspire 3 to the flash drive, and to Parted Magic. From that point, you can see if the drive can still be accessed somehow, and if data can be recovered.
If the drive is "dead", you can send it off to a data recovery service to have them recover whatever information you want/need saved. You can likely even have the contents of the drive cloned onto another drive, if it can be recovered.
Are your files damaged? I have no way of knowing. Did you lose things? If the files are damaged, sure. If it is just a chip on the little printed circuit board on the bottom of the drive, then likely the files are OK, but the drive control board is dead and would have to be repaired/replaced by a data recovery service.
I know this doesn't make it better, but hopefully from this point forward you are either storing your important information in the cloud, or you are backing up important information onto another drive.
What filesystem is the USB stick formatted with? Does that program have an option to "reformat the USB drive"? If yes, what if you (back up important data on it and) use it? If no, what happens if you first format the USB stick to FAT32 and then write the ISO to it?
What OS are you writing the ISO onto the USB stick on? If Windows, does it work if you try YUMI instead?
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
When I still used Windows, I was able to make one with these. Back then they worked on UEFI support but I see it has matured with two versions: legacy and UEFI.
See if it works in wine.
I had to create on recently too. What I used was wine with yumi. Worked flawlessly.
Just install wine, stick in your USB and call winecfg to set a letter for the USB drive. Then start yumi and select the drive letter, win 10 img and create a bootable USB stick (with the option to also include other OS).
You can do this with YUMI on a regular USB drive. I've had a few issues on UEFI though.
I use something called YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer). It puts all the live images into a "MULTIBOOT" folder at the root of the drive and you can use the rest of the drive for storage.
Along with different distros there are many different desktop environments (DE). It would still be a good idea to test out a few from a live USB to see how well they perform on the laptop. Yumi can run several ISOs from one flash drive if that's something that interests you. Depending on how old the laptop is you might want to try a lighter (on resources) DE like XFCE or LXQT. If you haven't already discovered it, Ubuntu has different official variants, aka flavors, too. If you're interested in branching out from Ubuntu then DistroWatch is a good resource for seeing what's popular atm and/or finding a list of distros that fit your search criteria.
The best policy is to have all data in exportable / importable format. And the higher the number of programs / applications installed, the more tedious the process. As long as you know how to handle all the common issues, and as long as you have a live USB of your old and your new distro to fix anything in the config files or to move data around in case of an emergency, you should be fine. Having some free disk space always and having a couple of distros in your liveUSB is always handy. Also, separate /home if that works. Backups in importable/exportable format should be on another disk, preferably.
I have found both these very useful:
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-usb-from-linux/
Alternatively if you have a Windows at hand: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
It has been a long time since I've done this myself but works like a champ.
You need a USB Flash drive a Windows computer that you can actually log into (hell, you could even do this at the Public Library), and a program named YUMI. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Make sure you have backed up any data on that flash drive because it will be completely wiped.
Go through and find Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and then boot into that and follow the instructions.
If you’ve got a decent size flash drive and some time go ahead and use Easy2Boot or YUMI and load up all distros that interest you. Then you can give them all a try and see what feels right for you.
If I was gonna suggest one directly it’d probably be Pop!_OS which is based on Ubuntu so most Ubuntu guides and software should work the same for Pop. Plus Pop has a nice polish to it and creates a recovery partition upon install, just incase ;)
/u/NateDchamp This. Get an .iso of ubuntu and a copy of YUMI from pendrivelinux. Toss the .iso on a flashdrive. You can also use something called "Hiren's Boot CD" which features a "Mini-XP mode" where you can boot into windows XP and explore the drive. Hiren's also features a number of cloning and HHD Diagnostic tools.
All of this is free and not too difficult to do with minimal tech knowledge.
Try using another iso setup
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
Or yymi you can add multiple os on this app
Check https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ you can use it to drop a few ISOs into a flash key and run various live distributions, and even give them some space for user data. In this way you can safely try different distros.
Have you tried booting a Linux distro from USB? If you do that, you should be able to see what's on all the hard drives installed.
Put the new SSD back in and boot into Windows.
Download and launch YUMI, with a flash drive plugged in. Choose a Linux distro (I recommend Lubuntu) and let YUMI download it for you (check the Download Link box). Follow the prompts to make a bootable flash drive. This WILL format your USB drive, so make sure you don't have anything on it you want saved. Also MAKE SURE it's the flash drive, and not the SSD or the HDD.
You can then boot from the flash drive and should be able to access the files on the HDD.
That text refers to the onboard RAID controller. Its "bios" splash screen, as it were... just announcing that it was loaded and ready. Not that was doing anything different. At least that is what it should be doing.
YUMI is an excellent tool for making bootable flash drives... especially if you are interested in making a flash drive with multiple different operating systems on it, and a menu to choose between them when you boot to the drive.
I dunno if Rufus does this, but when I first started playing with Linux distros I found Yumi. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ and it was great for putting multiple ones on a single usb for quick and easy testing.
Yes, the problem is with the drive and yes, there will be loss in read/write speed due to the SATA to usb 3.0.
Also, you have to plug the USB key in a corresponding 3.0 port or better. If you plugged it in a 2.0 one, it may very well explain the lack of speed.
I personnaly created a live Ubuntu with Yumi and it's working great.
Oh! Now i get it, and yes you can make a persistent ubuntu for booting with both windows and mac but the windows system must be or atleast support UEFI and no doubt Mac will have that if it's a newer one. Go to this site and download the YUMI-UEFI-x.x.x and create the persistent ubuntu with this, the problem should be solved now. If it doesn't, then ask me anytime!
It is possible! I often use this tool when I want to create a new bootable USB, and it gives me the option to add multiple ISOs to it, all of which will be shown in a pre-instalation menu for you to choose.
As already mentioned elsewhere, YUMI is fantastic. I've been using it for years. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
And don't let the URL fool you, Windows ISOs are supported as well.
Here is some magic for you. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
This will allow you to have a multiboot flash drive, I have a master 128gb flash drive with 12 OS's and tools on it.
Many disrtos have specific guides, some you can just make a partition on the usb and give it a specific label and it will work as a persistent save location.
Some disrtos can even make a save file on the fly. (like tiny core linux, and i think puppy linux)
For Ubuntu, and many other disrtos - you need a tool like Yumi or UUI, or unetbootin, or other tools - mentioned at https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
It is much easier to make just a 'live' usb to install from. and you Can do a 'full normal install' from a live USB, onto a second USB. But it can be a bit tricky.
I rarely use the persistent feature, since it has several limitations.
Good Luck.
Also see --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent But that guide is rather old.
If you can, try booting a USB flash drive with some sort of decent Linux like mint or ubunto and see if there are any performance issues. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
This is a great idea. I keep both discs in my bag but never thought about tossing them both on a bootable USB. Thanks, friend. I think I'm going to cook up a half dozen of these for our Desktop Support team, I know you mentioned easy2boot - what do you think about YUMI?
Just taking a pot shot at your issue. Sometimes the easiest solution might be what you use to make the damn USB bootable. I've tried a bunch of utilities and some produce different results than others for various situations even if you'd think they're supposed to do the same thing. So if you haven't already here's only a few to try starting with the top:
- YUMI lots of options (maybe try the unlisted GRUB iso option if Ubuntu doesn't work?), saved my ass a few times after banging my head against the table repeatedly for days thinking I did something wrong
- Lots of people have good experience with Rufus, although it may not be applicable for all scenarios (in terms of the images it can read like BIOS/EC flashing) but is solid for OS
- dd utility (I've used this as a work-around via a virtual machine to make a bootable from a mounted flash-drive)
- Nero, haven't used this but you might have some luck
- UNetBootin is a piece of shit, only resort to it if you have to
Sorry about my relatively low-tech suggestion, that's for someone else who's much better at Linux than I am. The only reason why I mention this is since I've had pieces of the installation nonfunctional/functional depending on what I used (even if I was able to boot from it for a short time like you had).
Download the ISO and use YUMI
Download it and you will be able to select which OS you are installing "Tails"
It will then let you select the actual ISO to install to the USB.
You should then be able to plug it into a computer and reboot and boot to USB.
You will be give the option to use it as a live USB.
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Tails = https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html
YUMI = https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
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If you need any help message me.
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More importantly I am surprise to be banned from this sub. Why can you see my comment?!?!
> As far as I know, you need to format a drive to make it an OS installer.
Not always. Take for instance WinSetupFromUSB or YUMI which both allow you to create a bootable USB drive containing multiple installers. As you are adding installers, it does not format your thumb drive. Otherwise previous ISO would be gone, beating the entire point of those applications.
How your media creation tool handles the preparation really depends on the application. Fully formatting a drive is the easiest way to avoid issues caused by pre-existing files, but with the right application this is not always necessary.
AFAIK you have to choose the boot method, you used for a previously installed Windows, to make dual boot work. In your case Legacy/BIOS.
Unless you reinstall Windows 10 in UEFI mode, UEFI will not work without having to switch the boot method every reboot in the BIOS.
You might also try to make a bootable USB-stick with Yumi, which is much more flexible than Rufus.
Yumi is especially great, because you can install a bootable GParted and resize/manage/check your partitions before installing anything.