Create Kali Bootable Installer USB Drive in Windows 10

This post will show how to create Kali Bootable Installer USB Drive in Windows 10 (Kali Bootable Non-Persistence USB Drive). This is the fastest method, for getting up and running with Kali Linux is to run it “live” from a USB drive.

Advantages of using Kali Live USB Drive – Non-Persistence

  1. It’s non-destructive — it makes no changes to the host system’s hard drive or installed OS, and to go back to normal operations, you simply remove the “Kali Live” USB drive and restart the system.
  2. It’s portable — you can carry Kali Linux in your pocket and have it running in minutes on an available system.
    Kali live
  3. It’s secured – you can destroy the disk and there is no way to link anything back to that USB as the physical medium is destroyed.
  4. Best of all – You can boot any supported computers using it thus bypass OS security.

Disadvantages of using Kali Live USB Drive – Non-Persistence

  1. It’s once off – You can not update/upgrade distro.
  2. You can not save config.

Requirements

  1. A verified copy of the appropriate ISO image of the latest Kali build image for the system you’ll be running it on. i.e. note i386 or x64 or armel or armhf versions.
  2. A USB thumb drive ( min 4 GB)
  3. Rufus ( Rufus Official website) or any other usb bootable maker like Windows 32 Disk imager

Creating a Bootable Kali USB Drive on Windows 10 – Non-Persistence

Downloading Kali Linux ISO image

You need to download an Official Kali Linux ISO image from here: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

Note that you need to ensure you know which system you will be running that image on. For example, if you want to use 32 bit Kali Linux you download Kali Linux 32 bit image. For 64-bit machines, download Kali Linux 64 bit image. This is very basic and you should already know it.

Plug in USB drive and select ISO in Rufus

Browse kali iso and then click Start , And rest of work will do Rufus for you itself.

Now you can use this USB device to boot into Kali Linux on any supported machine.
When you boot into new machine select live and use your Best operating live in any machine.
If you find any difficulty let me know by putting your comment.

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