How To Create A UEFI Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive in Windows
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How To Create A UEFI Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive
Using Windows
by Gary Newell
Updated October 19, 2016
1 Mount The Ubuntu ISO Within Windows
Mount Ubuntu ISO.
This guide shows you how to create a UEFI bootable Ubuntu USB drive.
The point of creating a USB drive in this way is to ensure that when you run Ubuntu and start the installer you will de鳇�initely
be installing Ubuntu using the UEFI version and not the standard BIOS version.
The USB drive created using this guide will not work on computers without the UEFI bootloader.
If you don't have a UEFI bootloader follow this guide to create a bootable Linux USB drive.
For this guide you will need a blank USB drive with at least 2 gigabytes of space.
As an additional bonus this guide will also show you how to make the drive persistent so that changes made in the live mode
are kept for each subsequent boot.
The 鳇�irst thing to do is download Ubuntu by visiting http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop.
(Make sure you download the 64 bit version of Ubuntu)
After you have downloaded Ubuntu you will need to open it with a tool that can mount ISO 鳇�iles.
The tool I used for opening the ISO is Cyberlink Power2Go. Simply download the software, install it and then double click
the Ubuntu ISO and open it with Cyberlink.
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Another alternative is the popular 7-Zip software. 7-Zip can open all sorts of compressed 鳇�iles including zip 鳇�iles, rar 鳇�iles and
of course ISO 鳇�iles.
Open up the downloaded Ubuntu ISO using the ISO viewing software of your choice and extract the 鳇�iles to the blank USB
drive.
2 Check The USB Drive Has An Active Partition
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Check for an active partition.
The next step in making a UEFI bootable Ubuntu USB drive is to ensure the USB drive has an active boot partition.
As you are creating a UEFI bootable USB drive this guide assumes you are using Windows 8 (or 8.1).
Go to the desktop by clicking the desktop tile or by clicking the Windows button on your keyboard.
Move your mouse to the bottom left corner and right click with the mouse. (If you are using Windows 8.1 it will be the start
button you right click but for standard Windows 8 it is just the bottom left corner).
Choose the disk management from the menu that appears.
You will see a list of disks, one of which will be your USB drive. Make sure that the drive has the words (Active, Primary
Partition) listed. This will almost certainly be the case unless you partitioned the USB drive.
If your Ubuntu 鳇�iles aren't on the active partition you can set that partition to active by right clicking on the drive and
selecting the option "Mark partition as active".
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3 Turn Off Fast Startup
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Turn Off Fast Startup.
In order to boot a UEFI bootable Ubuntu USB drive you need to turn off fast startup.
Move the mouse to the bottom left corner and right click so that the menu appears again.
Choose "power options".
When the power options screen appears click the second menu item on the left hand side called "Choose what the power
button does".
At the bottom of the window is "Shutdown Settings". Make sure the "Turn on fast startup" checkbox is unchecked and click
"Save Changes".
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4 Reboot Windows And Boot Into Ubuntu
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Restart Windows To Boot From USB.
Move the mouse to the top right corner and when the icons appear click on the settings icon (looks like a cog).
Hold down the shift key and click on the power icon.
Select restart and leave the shift key held down until the computer restarts.
5 The UEFI Boot Menu
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