How to install an UEFI-based ISO (bootable with DVD) on an USB flash?


  1. Posts : 128
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    How to install an UEFI-based ISO (bootable with DVD) on an USB flash?


    I have an UEFI-based ISO file for a tool on windows (This tool is NOT a WinOS but a separate utility tool).
    If I burn this ISO onto a DVD and boot it on an UEFI computer (without Secure Boot) everything works.

    However If I put this ISO with e.g. Rufus onto an USB flash drive then the USB flash drive does not boot and show an error message:

    "Could not locate 'EFI\boot\bootx64.efi': Not found

    Yes, the file and the directory is missing.

    After a long search I found a hint:
    Surprisingly a DVD-bootable ISO is NOT automatically bootable from USB flash drive due to different handling of Bootmanager.

    Interesting. I have not expected that.

    Now my problem is:

    Can I convert this only-on-DVD-bootable ISO to a bootable-from-USB-flash-drive ISO?

    Alternatively it would be acceptable to create at first an UEFI-bootable USB flash drive and extract (which?) tool files out of the ISO onto this USB flash drive. I guess I have to declare (where?) what program should be started during USB flash drive boot.

    Any suggestions?

    E.g.Ventoy does not help.

    It must be a solution which prepares the USB flash drive for simple UEFI boot and let me add (before or afterwards) an additional tool.

    Peter
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