

Unfortunately, although the website can be a great resource for tutorials on various ways to put windows setup files onto a USB drive, it also can be quite difficult to find your way around.

RMPrepUSB is quite a comprehensive tool and can look a bit complicated to use compared to most other USB installers. USB install support for: Windows XP, Vista, 2008, 7 and 8. Because the other tools here are designed to work with Windows by their developers, it’s recommended to try them before UNetbootin. Just select Diskimage and browse for the ISO file, then choose your USB drive. We ran quick tests to install Windows Vista, 7 and 8 ISO’s to USB using UNetbootin and it seemed to work IF you format the flash drive to NTFS beforehand. Although a lot of people try to use it for installing the Windows setup onto USB, the program doesn’t officially support this and it seems a look around the internet reveals there are as many failures as successes. UNetbootin is a very popular tool for downloading and installing Linux distro’s onto USB.

USB install support for: None officially, Windows Vista, 7 and 8 worked for us. Both tools are entirely portable.ĭownload Universal USB Installer | Download YUMI The YUMI interface is slightly more complicated due to the multiboot options. All you have to do is select which Windows to install from the Step 1 drop down (near the bottom), locate the ISO and choose the USB drive to install to. These two tools are one of the few that is able to install Kon-Boot onto a USB. They both have options to install and also download a number of Linux operating system images and repair CD’s along with direct USB installer support for Vista, 7 and 8. The main difference is YUMI has support for installing multiple ISO images onto a USB flash drive and Universal USB Installer can install one ISO image at a time. Universal USB Installer and YUMI are similar programs from, looking and working in a similar way. USB install support for: Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
