14 February
2020
UEFI, NTFS, and Bootable USB
When using Microsoft’s MDT for deployment, sometimes you need to create a bootable USB to boot your machine into a LiteTouch deployment. Well Thanks to an application named Rufus, that could not be any simpler. Rufus is a utility that helps to format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
- After creating your MDT iso, copy it onto your workstation, or whichever machine you are creating the bootable USB on.
- Download and install Rufus (at the time of writing this is at v3.8). https://rufus.ie/
- In Rufus;
- Select your USB from the Device dropdown menu
- Click on SELECT, and choose the MDT iso you copied to your workstation
- If desired, modify the Volume_Label to the name of your preference
- Under the File system dropdown menu, select NTFS
- Click on START to begin formatting your device
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Now, as long as secure boot is disabled, you can boot direct from your UEFI enabled thumb drive and get to your MDT task sequences.