

After that, the data will get erased during the installation process. So, plug your USB stick into your Microsoft Windows computer and ensure the flash drive is empty and clean.

Start the process by opening up the Rufus. As shown from the screen shot below you can see Windows assigned the USB flash drive a CD-ROM icon because, from a hardware stand-point, Windows thinks the USB is an optical disc. Follow the step-by-step guide to learn how to create a bootable Windows USB Drive. Once the ISO file is “burned” to the USB flash drive the end result is an optical disc with your content. The capacity of the blank USB CD-ROM is the same as the GB capacity of the flash drive itself. This is equivilant to a blank CD-R or DVD-R. Note : In the latest version of Rufus (3.5), there’s now an option to download the ISO image for Windows 8.1 or 10 directly through Rufus, if you don’t already have a copy saved. As you can see in this screen shot below, the device is a “RAW” CD-ROM drive. Rufus will open a file explorer browser window locate the ISO image you want to burn onto the USB and select it. The Disc License drive by Nexcopy is a blank USB CD-ROM flash drive when it’s connected to the host computer. It is not required for the ISO to be bootable, only an image file with the file extension of. The Nexcopy solution will take any ISO file and copy the data to the USB flash drive to make a true USB CD-ROM flash drive.
