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Confusing instructions for MS Windows manual USB key creation

2019-09-24
2021-01-08
  • Nicolai Dufva Nielsen

    The instructions for manually creeating a live USB under Windows are extremely confusing. Specifically step 4:

    Browse to your USB flash drive and as an administrator, (On the USB flash key, create a shortcut to the makeboot.bat file. Then right-clic on the shortcut, Properties, Advanced and check "Run as administrator".), click the makeboot.bat in the dir utils\win32\ (for 32-bit Windows) or makeboot64.bat in the dir utils\win64\ (for 64-bit Windows). WARNING! Makeboot.bat must be run from your USB flash drive.

    I suggest this wording instead:

    Open a command prompt as Administrator, navigate to the root of the USB flash key and enter \utils\win32\makeboot or \utils\win64\makeboot, depending on the flavor of Windows you are running.

    This is, of course, assuming that the user knows how to open a command prompt as Administrator, but to be honest if they don't, they should really not be using the manual instructions...!

     
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    • Jose M Carabes

      Jose M Carabes - 2021-01-08

      This was very helpful, though I may fall into the category of users who don't know what they are doing, this has really helped me narrow down the direction of information I should be heading towards!

       
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2019-10-06

    Thanks for your suggestion. I'd like to keep the original one, hence I have added another description you provided.

    Steven

     

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