I will not be responsible if you erase all your data if you select the wrong disk!įrom the application main screen select the drive you want to use. Rufus will clean your USB stick and delete all the data in it!! For this note, I’m using a Windows Server 2016 2019 ISO that I downloaded from Microsoft. Have your Windows ISO file ready as we’re going to need it later on, to “burn” it onto the USB stick. It’s a single file application, so no installation needed.

Just a side note: with this app you can not only create Windows USB bootable thumb drives but you can also use it to create Linux bootable USB thumb drives.Ĭreate a Windows Server 2016 2019 Bootable USB Before startingĭownload Rufus latest version from the Rufus official website and save it to your computer. This time I will use a small application called Rufus that does all the hard work for you, though, from my experience, it’s a bit slower copying files to the USB stick. In a previous article, I created a Windows Server bootable USB using the command line.

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