best software for making a bootable drive

[MalaySausage]

i want to put freenas on a old pc so i can play around with it but i dont really know of any good software to make bootable drives 

[RZeroX]

Rufus?

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

[SPFINATOR1993]

22 minutes ago, MalaySausage said:

i want to put freenas on a old pc so i can play around with it but i dont really know of any good software to make bootable drives 

I have used Rufus in the past to create a bootable USB drive.  However, to create bootable cd's and dvd's, I have used WinIso in the past with much success.

[MalaySausage]

Rufus worked great thanks 

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Rufus is not bad at all. Universal USB Installer (no matter how sketchy the name sounds) is also quite nice. If you run Linux you can also use the "dd" bash command.

[annoyingmoments]

Maybe Lili USB Creator, UNetBootin or the Startup-Disk-Creator in many Linux distros is something fory your needs? The last one of course only works, if you already do have a Linux machine running this software. On Windows I had good experiences with the other two programs.

[Catalonia]

Rufus rule'z!  Never failed me, with continuous development and updates. Rock solid for Windows and Linux ISO's. 

[Mikensan]

Just to add - Easy2boot is amazing for multi-loading a lot of bootable ISOs. Takes a little bit to set it up, but once you're done you pretty much just drag and drop ISOs. Windows ISOs requires you to convert them to ptna but there's a guide for that.

[Jarsky]

DISKPART which is part of Windows

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx

 

Once bootable, you just extract the ISO onto the USB drive

 

[alex75871]

+1 for Rufus.

[Edelrat]

On 3.5.2016 at 10:11 PM, Jarsky said:

DISKPART which is part of Windows

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124.aspx

 

Once bootable, you just extract the ISO onto the USB drive

 

Diskpart all the way