How to Install Rufus | How to use Rufus to Create Bootable USB drive (Windows 11)

hey guys in this video I'm going to show you how you can install Rufus on your windows 11 operating system and in addition I'm going to show you how you can use roofers to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 11 operating system so let's get started and let's see how we can do it so first of all let's start with the installation part so go to your favorite browser and search for Rufus and the first link which will appear here will be from rufus.ie so just click on this link and you will be redirected to the roofers.ie website here when you scroll down you will see as download section and under download you will be able to see the latest version of installation file uh under this download section so at the time of making this video Rufus 3.21 is the latest version so I'm going to click on Loop was 3.21 which is going to start the download of this Rufus uh 3.21.exe file so the file size is not too big you can see 1.3 megabytes so it will be downloaded really fast once you have downloaded this file just click on this exe file and then click on remove protection and open and then click on yes here let me minimize my browser so that you can see this so you can see for the first time when you uh start Rufus it's going to look like this you can also close the program and once you have closed the roofers program you can reopen it by going to the same location where you have downloaded the exe file and then click on this exe file again click on yes and it's going to open it again now let me show you how you can create a Windows 11 bootable USB drive so for that you need a Windows 11 ISO file so for downloading the ISO file for Windows 11 you can just search for Windows 11 ISO and Microsoft allows you to download the windows 11 ISO file from its official website just search for Windows 11 ISO and the first link which will appear here will be from microsoft.com forward slash software download forward slash windows so just click on this link and here when you scroll down you will see few sections one is installation assist second installation media the third one is the ISO file so I'm going to click the download button under ISO file so I'm going to click on this uh version which is the only version available and then click on download which is going to validate some things and then give you the other option you also need to choose the language in which you want to download the ISO file I will choose English International confirm and it's going to validate some things again and then you can click on the 64-bit download which is going to start the download of this Windows 11 ISO file you can see it's around 5.2 GB at the time of making this video so just wait for some time until it's downloaded once it's downloaded you can start the creation of bootable USB drive I have already downloaded this file so I'm going to cancel the download but you can download it and then you are good to go so once you have downloaded the ISO file just open your Rufus tool and first of all you need to have a USB drive which is around 8 GB in size let me just insert my USB drive and you will see uh this USB drive will be populated here in some time so you can see this USB drive is populated it's around 8 GB uh in size you can also see when I go to my PC this is the drive which I have inserted which is around 7.5 GB in size and it's formatted drives so make sure you don't have any data on this drive otherwise you will lose the data which is present on this USB drive and once you have inserted your drive just select the drive and then move to the second option which is uh boot selection and then you have this option to select or download the ISO file so just uh you select here and just click on the select option here and go to the location where you have downloaded your windows ISO file so I have downloaded this file at this location so just browse through the location where you have downloaded your ISO file you can see the extension is dot ISO I'm going to select this and then click on open which is going to select this ISO file here now in the next option you can see image option I will choose the standard Windows installation then the partition scheme I'm going to choose GPT which is nowadays uh standard the target system is UEFI which is also the default and then you can also choose the volume label for this one I'm going to name it as Windows 11 here you can rename this label anything else Windows 11 bootable USB or whatever you want to name it and then the file system will be NTFS the cluster size I'm going to leave it as default and then here you can see quick formats so as I mentioned it's going to format the USB drive first so whatever data you have better make sure that you have the backup of that data otherwise the data will be formatted then you can simply click on start button which is going to give you this kind of warning customize Windows installation remove requirements for 4GB plus Ram secure Boot and TPM 2.0 these are some installation requirement create a local account with username this one I will leave it as default set Regional option to the same volume so you have few options here I'm going to leave the first box checked and the other options as unchecked but you can check them also and then click on OK and then you can see this option all data on the device uh code bind which have 8 GB space will be destroyed so make sure you have the backup and then click on OK so you can see the status here just wait for some time until this progress bar reaches to the 100 Mark so now as you can see I see the status ready here so my USB drive has been created for Windows 11. I can see here also in my PC section that this USB drive has been created and around 2.3 GB is free out of around 7.45 GB and the label is Windows 11. when I go inside this USB drive you can see all the bootable files and other file system related stuff is there so now you can use this USB drive to uh create the windows 11 installation on any hardware so that's it for this video I hope you've enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next video

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Keywords: Windows 10, Windows 8, New User Account, How to, Guest Account in Windows 10, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Professional, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Education, Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung, Microphone Not Recording, intel driver update, driver update, drivers for windows 10, Change PC name, Computer Name In Windows 10, Computer Name, Windows 10 Bootable USB, USB Flash Drive

Id: S57ag-pN5QA

Length: 7min 39sec (459 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 30 2023