As I experienced in past Ubuntu’s default startup disk creator is buggy and sometimes it’s doesn’t work , If you are struggling with Ubuntu 15.10’s startup disk creator ( default USB disk creator ) then Here are quick alternate way of creating Ubuntu USB drive from existing Ubuntu Installation . For Upgrading or recovering bricked (incomplete upgrade or broken OS etc ) system or for installing fresh Ubuntu anyway , in this tutorial I’ll show you how to make bootable Ubuntu USB key .
Pre-Requisites
- Ubuntu ISO
- Minimum 8 GB USB stick ( pen-drive )
- existing Ubuntu or Mind Installation
Image Write Method
- Right Click On ISO
- choose open with > Image Writer
- choose Destination drive ( Carefully )
- click restore
- Enter your password if prompt
- wait while its restoring
- enjoy
![Right click on image Choose Image Writer](/static/368411d812cc4d02ba7587f51ffcee63/30d00/Screenshot-from-2016-04-22-22-44-04.png)
![Choose target USB drive](/static/de62463e262bce95beb2b186a70d0940/6e6fb/Screenshot-from-2016-04-22-22-44-37.png)
![window showing progress , just wait](/static/cb6e5e13a2b38fdc22a4419cd52fd684/db783/Screenshot-from-2016-04-22-22-45-12-1.png)
DD Method
Identify your USB disk label ( open disks application and choose disk then see on right device section ,
open terminal unmount the mounted partition
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo dd if=ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb
where /dev/sdb
is your **USB drive **
![terminal with dd info](/static/039147d4f707702fceb427a4608791da/2e195/Screenshot-from-2016-04-22-23-43-59-e1461349877121.png)
enjoy , leave your comment .