By Manny Fernandez

January 4, 2020

Creating Bootable USB Stick using balenaEtcher

Creating Bootable USB Stick using balenaEtcher

I created an article last week about creating a bootable Windows USB thumb-drive.  A colleague of mine, Sam Keys, Suggested I try this utility.  I did and found it to be easy and useful.  Decided to write an article and give Sam credit for the suggestion.

Here is the link to the website.

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Supported Operating Systems

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It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux which is great.

Converting ISO

The first thing I did, was convert the .ISO to and .IMG file

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/Desktop/win10.img ~/Desktop/SW_DVD9_NTRL_Win_10_1809_64BIT_English_HomeProEDUSLS_N_X21-96286.ISO

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Flashing

Next, launch the application

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  1. Select the Image File
  2. Choose the USB stick
  3. Choose Flash

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Once you choose Flash you will see the progress bar.

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Once it has completed writing the image, it will validate it.

Finished Product

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