So, the answer here really is: check the Rufus FAQ and follow the advice it gives you. For instance the FAQ also has a list of applications that, similarly to Controlled Folder Access, may prevent partitioning access to a drive. However, without seeing the error from Rufus' log, it's impossible to say what your issue might be. So you will either have to disable Controlled Folder Access or whitelist Rufus. A short tutorial for beginners on how to use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive to install an operating system. The log shows the point of failure - always the same. If I were to take a guess, I'd say that you probably enabled the Controlled Folder Access feature from Windows Defender, which of course prevents anything but whitelisted applications (such as the native ones from Microsoft) from partitioning a drive. With various combinations of the parameters, it always gets about 2/3 through and throws up the error: 'ISO image extraction failure'.

Just click on the last blue button that appears left of Start to access the log.Īlso, please be mindful that there exist a comprehensive FAQ for Rufus, that has a specific entry for this error telling you what you should do. First of all, you should really check what the log from Rufus says, as it will give you an error code that you can check.

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