You may get lucky if you unplug the drive fast enough, but Rufus certainly does not take any measures to avoid its creation and, as a matter of fact, this is something that distros, such as QubeOS, have to work around, because Rufus certainly can't.Īnd, no it wouldn't be a small change, as I would likely have to explain to Rufus users who picked the non bootable option by mistake, why their USB doesn't boot (which, I can guarantee from experience, will be a lot due to the application being downloaded 2 million times each month).
Start Sector: 2048, Boot: No, Recognized: Yesīut the moment i open the usb stick in windows it adds a hidden folder "System Volume Information" and who knows what else it's doing.Ī drive created by Rufus will also see a "System Volume Information" folder, since that's something modern version of Windows always create. Volume has an unknown Partition Boot Recordįound volume GUID \\?\Volume\ on F:\ Opened drive \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 for write access Image does not have an x86 Master Boot Record
Start Sector: 172, Boot: No, Recognized: Yes NOTE: This device is an USB 3.0 device operating at lower speed.ĭisk type: Removable, Sector Size: 512 bytesĬylinders: 3738, TracksPerCylinder: 255, SectorsPerTrack: 63
Windows version: Windows 10 64-bit (Build 10240)įound USB 2.0 device 'SanDisk Ultra Fit USB Device' (0781:5583) Will it be possible to allow rufus to write non bootable iso Log I have an iso that is not bootable and i tried to write it to a usb, but rufus refuses to write it. I downloaded Windows 10 Professional version 20H2 with Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.Ĭannot write with rufus a non bootable iso I used Rufus 3.12 for creating an USB Bootable with Windows 10 version 20H2 64 bit, using Windows To go option. If using an ISO image, I clicked on the # button (at the bottom of the Rufus interface), to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied.I also tried one or more of the following:.
It is an installation and upgrade utility developed by Microsoft for Windows systems, you can use Windows Media Creation Tool to create a Windows installation USB with an ISO file.