Let’s dive in and create a bootable USB drive on Chromebook. Even though it is meant for use with Chrome OS image files, the Chromebook Recovery Utility does seem to work well with Linux and Windows ISO files. The tool works by either downloading the image file from Google’s servers or selecting an image from your system and burning it onto a USB drive. It is also available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The Chromebook Recovery Utility was designed to create recovery images for Chromebooks if you ran into an issue with your Chrome OS.

On Chromebooks, we will use quite a different tool – Chromebook Recovery Utility. Most people are used to using tools like Rufus, Balena Etcher, PowerISO, etc., developed to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS natively. Some of the significant uses of a bootable USB drive include installing a new operating system or run software like Gparted, Antiviruses, and Penetration testing Operating systems on Live mode.

Burning an ISO image to a USB drive on Chromebook

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