How To Use Rufus To Install Windows 10 With UEFI Support
Rufus is a easy and simple to use tool, just download and run the tool to build bootable USB. You can easily use Rufus to make Windows 10 bootable USB and plenty of other os including Windows XP, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Ubuntu and lots of other Linux distributions.
Rufus offers many wonderful benefits but it also has limitations.
Only supports USB (not tested with SDcards).
This tool doesn't support hard disk (HDD) and external disk drive. If you want to build a bootable harddrive or an external disk drive, Rufus isn't the choice.
Rufus is not a multiboot tool.
This tool doesn't support creating multiboot usb with multiple ISO files, which enable it to not have multiple os on USB unless the ISO file supports it. Rufus requires reformatting the USB drive for every use.
Not supported on Windows XP.
Rufus 3.0 has stopped being supported on Windows XP. You need make use of older versions or some other tools in cases like this.
In addition, AIO Boot also supports creating Windows 10 bootable USB and lots of other systems that you can use:
- Is a multiboot tool.
- UEFI and Legacy support.
- Also supports hard disk drive, external hard disk and SDcard.
- OS installation through network boot.
- Supports USB 3.0 driver for Windows 7 and SATA/RAID/SCSI drivers for Windows XP.
- Supports Windows ISO files greater than 4GB on FAT32 drive.
- Support runs using Windows XP.
Create Windows 10 bootable USB
Rufus is lightweight and easy to work with. Here are the detailed steps on how make use of Rufus to setup Windows 10 for freshies. First, download the most up-to-date version of Rufus here and run the program to get started.
Choose the appropriate options in accordance with your needs:
UEFI only:
- Partition scheme: GPT
- Target system: UEFI (non CSM)
- File system: FAT32
Legacy BIOS only:
- Partition scheme: MBR
- Target system: BIOS (or UEFI-CSM)
- File system: NTFS
Dual UEFI + Legacy BIOS:
- Press “Alt + E“
- Partition scheme: MBR
- Target system: BIOS or UEFI
- File system: FAT32
If the ISO file contains files bigger 4GB, choose NTFS.
