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I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, but startup disk creator tool is not loading the ISO image file. I have tried these:

  1. Startup Disk Creator not recognizing selected ISO in 13.10
  2. Startup disc creator not allowing any iso to be loaded

But still aren't able to solve this problem. Can you please help me in this regard? Thanks in advance.

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cst
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.iso file is seen by startup disk creator when opening other dialog but never gets selected (its like it does not really recognize this file extension) but this does not happen with all .iso files.

Just rename iso image to img extension

mv imagename.iso imagename.img

This has happened to be on 14.04, 16.04 and 18.04 but I assume is a glitch of the program and not ubuntu.

at least in my case I had to move img to Downloads folder otherwise "Startup disk creator" did not see it

mv imagename.img ~/Downloads/imagename.img

Then open "startup disk creator" and choose appropriate USB (img should be automatically chosen)

For more details on iso and img renaming look in How to create an .img file from .iso on Ubuntu?

GiorgosK
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You can use unetbootin for making bootable usb stick. It works out of the box.

  1. To install use the command sudo apt-get install unetbootin
  2. open from terminal with command sudo unetbootin and give your password.
  3. choose your iso image browsing the folder where you have kept it
  4. choose your usb stick
  5. click ok and wait until it is done.

It works pretty smooth in any platform.

snoop
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Prof Shonku
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Startup Disk Creator looks in the Downloads directory by default. If finds any ISOs it sticks and will only let you use that ISO with the highest number and Ubuntu in its name. I solve this by moving ALL the ISOs from my Download directory in another directory. Startup Disck Creator can't default to any ISO so it comes up blank. It will then let you select ISO's from other directories as normal.

My exact process is:

  1. Move all ISOs from ~/Downloads to ~/Downloads/ISOs
  2. Run Startup Disk Creator, Source table will be blank
  3. Click Other...
  4. Open ISOs from any location as normal (in my case ~/Downloads/ISOs)

Hope this helps

This is only based on my computers running 12.04.4. Your mileage may differ.

Deepen
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I am aware how old this thread is, but given someone with the same problem pointed me here when asking for advice, I thought I'd share my answer

The answer, alas, is to not use SDC, but the command line.

cd path/to/iso/dir
lsblk
# (identify the flash drive - likely /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or the likes)
# (you should be able to identify it by its size - or just remove the flash drive, run lsblk again, see what disappears)
sudo dd if=name_of_image.iso of=/dev/sdc # (as appropriate)

This will copy byte-for-byte the ISO to your flash drive, overwriting it completely. It will look like nothing is happening when you run the command, but that's just the 'dd' command - it's not verbose at all. Takes about 1-4 minutes depending on ISO side and write speed of the flash drive.

Note that if this is one of the official Ubuntu respins (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc) then it should be fine to boot from flash disk. Other ISOs may not have compatibility for being written to and booted from a flash disk.

You can convert an ISO to "hybrid" (CD and USB compatibility) by installing the syslinux utility and running isohybrid (which will modify the ISO file itself - maybe do this on a copy of the ISO)

sudo apt install syslinux-utils
isohybrid path/to/your.iso

Good luck

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Do two things.

  1. Remove any iso (or img) from Downloads folder except for the iso you want to load. OR put all iso s in another directory under Downloads. Anyway, make sure there's no iso in the Downloads that you don't want to burn right now.

  2. Even still the disk creator is not recognizing, then change the iso you want to burn into .img by simply renaming it.

Remember to close and restart the Disc Creator after renaming.

This has helped me solve the above question more than a dozen times. Hopefully, it saves your time too.

EetSandhu
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  1. Go to Show Applications
  2. Select Utilities
  3. Select Disks
  4. Select your USB drive
  5. Under Volumes Unmount selected partition(Square icon under volumes information)
  6. Select Delete selected Partition( Minus icon next to square icon)
  7. Select Delete in new window
  8. when completed select additional partition options( Setting icon next to minus icon)
  9. Select Restore Partition Image... from list
  10. Select the folder on right in new window and select path to iso(Image to Restore)
  11. Select Start Restoring(will commence making bootable usb for you)

Another option is https://etcher.io/

When finished you now have your bootable USB.

Hope this is of help

Cheers Mooredeeb

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