Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you.
This time on how to create your own bootable USB toolkit that will have a countless
number of tools and utilities on there, to do and fix just about anything.
So stick around...
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we come out with a new weekly video. So the tool kit that you can create
yourself rather than buying some of these online that they're claiming can
fix anything. Nothing's really automatic. You need to
do certain things; and you got to get the right tool for the job.
So using this free utility from pendrivelinux.com. I'll have the links all
below in the description as well for everything that we cover in this video.
The program here is called Yumi. Now previous to this, there was a bootable
USB we could do that would have one ISO file that would allow you to boot one
particular program or operating system from that drive; but with this one, we can
have multiple ISO files, which allows us to have multiple installations for
various operating systems and programs. So we're gonna go through this here.
The first thing is downloading this program. So when you go to pendrivelinux.com
On the main page, if you scroll down a bit, you'll see the download link here
for Yumi, and it shows the current version that they're on. So you would
download that, save that, and we'll run it. Now before we get into that, you also
want to be able to download all your other ISO files, which you can download a
series of different ones, including Windows, Linux, and other bootable
tools which I will link to as well in the description down here. If you want
one of the most common things, especially for me, and if you're a technician trying
to reinstall windows so many times, is having a copy of Windows 10. So if you
just look doing a Google search even, but I'll have the link below again, is to
search for the Windows 10 media creation tool kit. So you'll be able to go
down below here; it says download the tool now. So when you
download that and run it. It will prompt you to either create a bootable ISO file
for use on another machine, or to install or update your current machine. Now I've
gone to some other sites and downloaded a couple of other tools as well. So you
can see here, I've got Yumi already. I've got Windows 10 as well as the 32
and 64-bit combined. I've also downloaded the latest copy of Ubuntu as well as memtest
which is great for testing your memory. So starting off here we're going
to run Yumi, and agree. This is where we choose the boot drive. Now yours will
have some drive letter show up and whatever the name is that's associated
with it. I've already used mine as a multi boot so it says that already.
Yours may say something different. So what we want to do is check to format as
NTFS. Now the problem if you choose 32-bit, it limits the size of the biggest
type of file that you can store on that flash drive. So I would recommend doing
NTFS. So that way you can also store other files of various file size. Now the
next part is choosing what you want to install on here, because after it formats it,
it's going to start installing the first tool. So we'll go with something
small here. So the first thing would be our memory test. But let's have a quick
search through here. There's various versions of Ubuntu, 32 and 64-bit,
of course they've got them all listed here. There's Linux, Cent OS, Debian...
basically a whole pile of Linux. Puppy Linux. It's all Linux.
Other Distros, which just means other distributions of Linux, which are not as
popular. But there's a ton of them as you can see. There's anonymous browsers.
There's a whole bunch of antivirus tools in here that you could download as well;
which is great for scanning for viruses offline; not just offline, but because it
says offline here, but all of the antivirus here you would be running from
a bootable USB; so the operating system isn't running while it's scanning for
viruses and that way it can detect things better. Also there's a whole bunch
of different tools here as well that you'll find. There's our memory test;
although that one doesn't work with this. I'll explain in a moment. There's other
OS tools, the windows installers which we're gonna get to that, this would be
the Windows 7 8 and 10 installer for a single one or if you're doing a multi
boot, there's a couple of options on there. If we want to look at the Ubuntu,
there is the Ubuntu option. It tells you here to browse and select the ISO.
So we'll go to browse and there is the Ubuntu ISO. Now although it's showing in
this folder where I'm at, it has to show all the file types that are ISO, it's
only showing the one that is to do with Ubuntu, because that's what we're trying
to get, because I selected to make that one specifically. If I scroll down to the
bottom here and go to a single Windows 10 installer and go to browse, it shows
me all of the ISO files, and then I can choose either the single one or the 32 / 64 bit.
I'm going to go with the memory test to do that one first, and the thing
is with that, if we go to the system tools and choose memtest.
It wants to look for the memtest of 5+ zip file. Now that's not the
one that I downloaded. I don't have the zip file, I have an ISO file, and it's 4.37
and this is the latest version of the memtest86.
So I got this from a different location than what they are
expecting; but there is a link here to go to the page that they're expecting, so we
can get the correct one. So let's do that.
So this is a different looking page than what I was on previously. They had the
memtest and memtest86. So they were different products basically, but they do
the same thing and they look pretty well the same. So on this site we would scroll
down, quite far... until we get to the download section for download and
pre-built ISOs. So it's got the memtest86+ and
that's what we're looking for. Here's the latest ones here. This is the zip
format that we want.
Let's browse...
and it doesn't show the zip file still.
Even though that's the one that it's looking for. So there's something not working
with that method. So the way to get this memtest installed, whether we're using
the memtest86 or the 86+, when we go into select what type were using, we
don't have to choose any specific thing. There's unlisted iso file types here.
So they got the partition4 or just Grub, Grub from RAM, or Syslinux. If you're not
sure which one to use, you can probably just go with the ISO grub.
Then we can go to browse and here is our... all of the ISO files that I have listed,
including the one here that I had originally. So we'll open that and this
is all we needed to do, so we're ready to begin the formatting and installation of
our first ISO file. So we'll hit create and it gives you a warning, so make sure
you read this, back up anything that you've got and if you've got everything
backed up that you needed from the drive and you're fine with wiping it then go
ahead and hit yes to begin. This will take a few minutes because it has to
prepare, format it, and install all the bootable components to make the USB
bootable, and then once it's in bootable state, then it starts adding your first
ISO file. Depending on how big that is, that can take a little bit longer as well.
So I'm gonna skip through to the end of this,
because there's really nothing else you need to do until it's completed the
formatting and adding of the first ISO file.
Ok, so you can see here that is
finally done and it went through everything including adding the ISO file.
So we'll hit next and when we're done this part, it asks you if you want it to
add any more ISO files or if you're done and that's all you want it to do was the
one for now, then you can hit No. I'm gonna hit the yes and then we'll
just go in here and we'll choose our next ISO file. We're not choosing what
file format because it's gonna wipe the drive and we don't want to wipe it.
We just want to add. So if we were to click up here, view or remove...installed distros.
If I can speak... when we click that, we just see the drop down menu here
and it shows us what's currently installed. So we'll get the others
installed and then you'll see what... when they're all showing here.
So with that unchecked, we can go to do the next one which is Ubuntu, and then I can
go to browse and select my Ubuntu ISO file and it's ready to go, and we can
create that. It's going to start adding that to it without erasing the
first one that we had.
Now that the ISO is in there for that, I'll hit next,
and again it asks me if I want to add any more distros. So I think I will go
ahead and I'm going to add in the final one.
So again if we're not sure we remember what's in there, we can go to view and we
can see we've got the two in here. So I want to add Windows. I'll uncheck this
and scrolling down to the bottom, because I remember Windows is here and it's the
single version of 7, 8 or 10. I'll browse for that ISO and I'm going
to do the full 32 and 64 in this case. and we don't have enough space on this
particular one. So let's go with the other one.
and that looks like that's going to be fine . So we'll create with that.
okay now that that's finally done; we can hit next and it asked me if I want to
add any more ISO distros. I'll say no cuz I'm finished with that.
and we're finished. So if I wanted to review them, I could
have hit yes to add more and just not add them and cancel, but I can launch the
program here and go back into it. Select the drive and then view. Now in the drop
down menu I can see I've got the three different ISO files that I've added in
here, and so now what we can do is cancel out of there.
and we'll take this USB Drive from here and plug it into another machine and
boot it from there, so that you can see how that works.
Alright so with our USB
plugged in when you boot up the computer you may have to press delete or F2 to
get in the BIOS, and then you can go into your boot menu, which I have a button for
and then I can choose what device I want to boot from. So selecting the USB it now
boots it into Yumi. We can see we've got all our options with a
countdown going at the bottom. So you've got 30 seconds to hit the up and down
arrow at least to select something else to stop the counter. Then you've got all
the time in the world to choose an option.
Going into the windows installers, we can see all the different type of Windows
operating systems that we can install. We can go back to our main menu and check
out all the Linux distributions that we have on here. All one of them, and we'll
go back to the main menu; and finally if you remember, we had to use Grub as
unlisted ISO, when we did our memtest. So it lists all the different ISO's
installed under this category and there's all one of them. The memtest.
So we can just highlight that and hit enter. We don't need to do anything else
from this menu here. You can ignore these options, it'll choose the defaults and
just begin testing the memory. So this is really cool if you wanted to test the
memory on your computer and see if it's healthy. So you can add as many ISO
images as your hard drive has the storage to handle and add all kinds of
tools and utilities on there. So if you found this helpful give it a thumbs up,
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new video; and let me know in the comments below, what other tools and
utilities do you think you would like to add onto this device and would you like
to see in a tutorial video on any of those particular tools and how to use them?
We've done one on this memtest a while back, but we can do many others here.
That's it for this tech-torial. Thanks so much for watching and
we will see you in the next one. Bye for now.