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Thus you can download and install it for a quick run to determine if a media is bootable. Magic ISO Maker is a shareware which allows user to try it. It can open, create, edit and extract CD/DVD image files, and it can convert BIN or ISO image format and vice versa, as well as make ISO file from DVD/CD-ROM or hard disk, and automatically handle bootable information. MagicISO Magic ISO Maker is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating, editing, extracting tool, though it hasn’t been updated for a long time and thus has a legacy-looking user interface.

If the boot up is successful (or you can see text that indicates boot up has been attempted even though operating system failed to load or encountered error in the virtual machine), you have a bootable media!
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MobaLiveCD is a portable utility and thus requires no installation, and it actually runs an ad-hoc virtual machine to boot from your USB flash drive or ISO image, allowing you to check and confirm the bootable state of the drive. With MobaLiveCD, you can run and start any bootable image or bootable media (DVD or USB flash drive) without the need to burn a CD-ROM (for disc image) or to reboot your computer. MobaLiveCD is a freeware that allows you to run the Linux LiveCD or any bootable operating system on Windows by using an emulator called “Qemu”.

If you want to test whether a DVD disc, USB flash drive or even an ISO image is bootable or not without rebooting, you can use MobaLiveCD or Magic ISO Maker to do so, especially for ISO image which can save you the effort to burn it to a media if it’s not bootable. Normally you would need to restart the computer and boot from a DVD drive or plugged-in USB flash drive to know if the ‘bootable’ part is successful. Thus, it’s important to verify that a bootable media is indeed bootable after you created it.

In order to fresh install an operating system onto a computer, the bootable characteristic is essential. Bootable USB flash drive, or in older days DVD disc, is common media used to install fresh copy of operating system on a computer.
