Test the USB BOOT capability or in other words TEST bootable of USB, a seemingly simple job, but if you do not know how or have no experience, it will take a lot of time and effort for this job.
Normally, after creating a USB BOOT, how do you check? How do I know if the bootable usb is working already?
Do you need to restart your computer to check it? If you are doing this by restarting your computer then this article I think will be great for you.
I will introduce to you 2 software to check the bootability of the usb is extremely fast and completely free, allowing you to verify and ensure that the USB drive has been successfully created and ready to use. Come on! Now let’s explore these 2 softwares now.
I. Common point of 2 softwares
- Simple interface, easy to use, light operation ..
- Support test (test) the BOOT capability of USB, ISO file, rescue CD ….
- All are software that give very accurate results.
II. Synthesize the most standard USB BOOT test software
Well, here are the tools and software you can use. You can also download them all for use when needed. Because it’s quite light ?
#first. Test USB BOOT with MobaLiveCD
- Homepage: www.mobatek.net/labs.html
- Link to download directly from the homepage: Download
- Link backup: Download
How to use MobaLiveCD
+ Step 1: Connect USB to computer.
+ Step 2: Run the software.
After downloading, use WinRAR to extract the software. Next right click on the executable file MobaLiveCD.exe and choose Run as adminstrator to run the program with administrator privileges.
+ Step 3: If you test USB, you choose Run the LiveUSB, if you test the BOOT CD, ISO file, you choose Run the LiveCD Please.
A new window will appear, choose the correct one ký hiệu ổ USB Your current. For example, my USB drive is now the drive J, choose J and press OK.
A popup window appears with the message ” Do you want to create a hard disk image for your virtual machine?“Translates as”Do you want to create a hard disk image for your virtual machine?” You choose NO
And here are the results I tested my USB Boot. This is the USB BOOT containing many Windows installers that I just instructed you to create yesterday ?
Good Tips:
During the test, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + F to switch between window mode and full screen mode.
Function Right-click menu helps you integrate MobaLiveCD software into the right-click menu when clicking the ISO file, this helps you to test the bootability of the iso file faster. To remove this feature, press the button Uninstall Please.
#2. Check bootability of USB / CD with UltimateBootUSB
This tool is also very compact and supports you to test the usb boot extremely quickly. I also use this software to test my products very often ?
2.1. Download UltimateBootUSB
2.2. How to use UltimateBootUSB
+ Step 1: After downloading, extract and run the file UBUSB.exe Under admin rights (Run as adminstrator) offline.
+ Step 2: The program’s interface and usage are also very simple. Select the current device symbol and tap Test USB is done.
+ Step 3: And here are the results after the test, too fast – too dangerous, right ?
# 3. Test UEFI standard USB BOOT with QemuBootTester
Actually using the 2 above software I introduced is more than enough. However, I still updated to add a software to support the usb boot test, giving you more choices. And according to my assessment, it is not inferior to the 2 above software, sometimes even slightly better in terms of features:
- Support to test boot ability of * .iso, usb, hdd file, CD drive … ..
- Support testing under both standards is UEFI and Lagacy.
- The amount of RAM memory can be changed when testing …
Download QemuBootTester
This is the main interface of QemuBootTester, click select Hard Disk If you want to test the bootability of the USB or the hard drive. If you want to test the CD, or the floppy, please test the corresponding option.
Next, do as shown below, generally very easy, nothing to guide at all ?
The result after testing another of my bootable usb.
[CẬP NHẬT] 2 more ways to test USB using a virtual computer – professional father:
III. Epilogue
Above are 2 tools test boot ability of USB BOOT, CD BOOT, ISO file … that I would like to introduce to you.
Hopefully, this quick test of the usb bootability will help you save your time and get the most professional rescue USBs. Refer to how to create usb boot …
Good luck !!
Kien Nguyen – techtipsnreview
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Source: 5 ways to test the BOOT capabilities of USB directly on Windows
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