Is it possible to create a bootable USB from my Android phone?

Shashman · 4 Feb 2023 at 08:35

Morning all.

Yesterday after putting my new upgrade together, I went to boot from what I thought was a bootable flash drive... Nothing.

Probably should have checked it before formatting my system RIP

What can I do? I don't have access to another PC.

Edit: I tried an app called ISO2USB yesterday and after taking about an hour to do it's thing, it didn't work. As soon as the system booted up it gave me an error about a missing file

Shashman · 4 Feb 2023 at 12:31

Thanks for the replies guys. I've gone to a mate's and used Media Creation Tool to create a boot USB. About to try it now, fingers crossed.

I say fingers crossed because the Chrome Restore Utility attempt didn't work (neighbour has a Chromebook).

Shashman · 4 Feb 2023 at 23:38

AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes you can create bootable USB stick from android phone with 2 apps and a £1.50 USB-C to USB adapter. I tried 5 years ago and it worked.

Ventoy

Ventoy (Unofficial) - Apps on Google Play

Ventoy is a tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO WIM IMG VHD(x) EFI files.

play.google.com

Rufus

DROFUS - Apps on Google Play

DROFUS is an android tool to burn iso file to usb pen drive.

play.google.com

Cheers, I did triy Ventoy but it was awful. Looked like it was created by scammers, covered with ads for slots. It didn't work anyway.

I couldn't use Rufus on my phone as it's an executable file.

Managed to create a bootable USB at a mate's in the end and all is well!