Can you boot an iso from a usb drive

This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Step 3. In this window, it will automatically search for all inserted USB drives. It should be a qualified USB, otherwise, the "Next" button will be disabled.

Step 4. Step 5. Seems very simple and easy, but this native tool can only recognize and allow you to choose USB drives that are certified by Microsoft as compatible. Or you will get stuck in Step 3. You can use a bootable USB drive on any other computer. Instead of copying your files on another system, you can access the specific data with a bootable USB flash drive.

It also helps to save your privacy. It is different from copying photos, music, or videos to a flash drive. You can not boot the system with copied files. If you burn data onto a USB drive, then only you can read it. Therefore, you need to adopt some methods to burn data to make a bootable USB flash drive.

Below are some ways to do so:. Connect a certified USB flash drive to your system. Step 2: Find the control panel on your system and click on it. Tap on it to proceed. Step 3: It will search for all the inserted USB drives automatically. To copy ISO files over to the main partition, you need to mount the partition first. Once exFAT tools are installed, you can mount the Ventoy's main disk partition as follows.

Once the partition is mounted successfully, go ahead and copy your ISO images to the USB drive thru the local mount point. Userspace file system tools such as exfat-fuse are rather slow. So wait patiently until the partition is fully unmounted.

Only then are you ready to boot using those ISO files. Now let's boot using the USB drive we created. As you expected, you will be greeted with a nice boot menu listing all the ISO files that you copy over to the USB drive.

All you have to do is to choose one of them, and Ventoy will take care of the rest of booting process. In this tutorial I demonstrated a pretty nice tool called Ventoy, which can make your life easier when you are venturing from one OS to another and yet another.