With the advent of ultra-portable laptops, optical drives are becoming a thing of the past.
Ĭreate Bootable USB Drives to Install by Rufus Now many people prefer to install window by USB. You can then run the payload OS in MBR\CSM mode, or reboot from the USB drive and select UEFI mode from the UEFI BIOS menu and boot in UEFI mode. When you boot to the Easy2Boot USB drive in MBR\CSM mode, select one of the image files from the menu - the partitions will be re-written to make the drive appear as a single-partition FAT32 drive. If it does not have efi folder it probably isn't compatible with uefi boot. Uefi boot are not just settings in rufus, most of time os that you want to boot needs to have efi folder and boot files in it. Rufus offers many great features but it also has limitations. You can easily use Rufus to create Windows 10 bootable USB and many other operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions.
If you try Rufus and it locks up at the end, cancel the task and issue a “BCDBOOT E:\WINDOWS /S E:” to make your device boot UEFI.
