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
- 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.
- It’s portable — you can carry Kali Linux in your pocket and have it running in minutes on an available system.
- 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.
- Best of all – You can boot any supported computers using it thus bypass OS security.
Disadvantages of using Kali Live USB Drive – Non-Persistence
- It’s once off – You can not update/upgrade distro.
- You can not save config.
Requirements
- 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.
You need to download an Official Kali Linux ISO image from here: Click Here - A copy of Win32 Disk Imager utility. Download from here: Click Here
- A USB thumb drive, 4GB or larger.
Note: Safely eject the USB drive from the Windows machine. Now you can use this USB device to boot into Kali Linux on any supported machine.
You need to select/change BIOS setup to select USB as the first boot device.
Select Live (686-pae) or Live (amd64) or similar based on the ISO you’ve selected and off you go.
