#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB STICK ISO#

Fortunately, it seems that our larger FAT32 partition is before the Rufus partition. You canвЂ™t even see the Rufus FAT partition here it shows as 0 bytes in Disk Management.

Rather than start from scratch (*), I used a little trick to convert the Rufus USB drive to a secure-bootable USB drive: I ran Disk Management, shrank the NTFS partition by 2GB (although 400MB would have been enough), created a FAT32 partition in the free space, then copied over the files listed above. This article is the real gem: it lists the files and folders that must be copied to the FAT32 partition: Option #2 of this TechNet article presents the main principle: your USB drive needs a FAT32 partition with the boot files and an NTFS partition with the rest of the installation media (which may include files that exceed the FAT32 4GB size limit). However, it felt like a challenge to see if it really must be disabled. I wasnвЂ™t really worried about disabling Secure Boot for installation-as he says, if you trust the media, it should be okay. Incompatible with SecureBootвЂќ:ДЄfter some hunting around, I found the Rufus author explaining here and here that his custom UEFI loader (which loads from a small FAT32 partition) isnвЂ™t signed by Microsoft and therefore you must temporarily disable Secure Boot until your OS is installed. Unfortunately when booting from this drive, I got the message, вЂњOperating System Loader has no signature. I created the initial USB thumb drive using Rufus and the default GPT/UEFI/NTFS options: I needed to create a USB drive that would boot with the BIOS in UEFI mode.

#RUFUS CREATE BOOTABLE USB STICK ISO#

The installation ISO for Server 2016 is about 5.8GB, so it wonвЂ™t fit on a a standard DVD.

Rufus create bootable usb stick