Whether you are using Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10, creating a bootable Ubuntu flash drive is actually not that hard. But choosing the perfect tools for this job is really hard. There are lots of software that claim that they can create bootable Ubuntu flash drives. But to be honest not all of them work perfectly or at least they are not updated up to the date. I have tried many of them and failed and finally found that this one little software called Rufus works flawlessly. Although as a user you need to provide correct information to get a perfectly working bootable flash drive. This is specially true for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). I will talk about the reasons in another post. Let's keep this post simple and focused. For a starter providing correct information to bootable drive creating softwares is a little bit confusing. I myself made many mistakes in doing so. Here I will try to explain every step so that you don't make any mistake and understand prope...
Ubuntu iso file comes in multiboot mode these days. So, it is important to select the right mode to boot the system. Otherwise installation process will fail. This is specially true if your system is a dual boot one and you have an MBR partitioned disk and you need to bootup your machine in legacy bios mode. So, how to boot in the mode you need? Well, funny. This is not hard at all. Just keep pressing esc key while booting up your machine. You will see a Window with select boot device option like the above image. Importantly, you can see that your one bootable USB device shows two options: One is "USB Flash Drive 8.00" The another is "UEFI: USB Flash Drive 8.00..." Select the first option if your system is in Legacy BIOS mode with MBR partition. This scenario is common with dual boot systems that has Windows 10 installed. If you examine your hard disk partitions using whatever partition manager you use, you probably will find a "System Reser...
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