I created a thumb drive of KDE-Linux using Kubuntu 25.10 from a live CD and KDE Image-Writer from a live CD and using the raw image from 2026-02-20 03:35. I put the image on a Samsung 64 GB Thumb drive as that was all I had. It is a 3.0 USB drive. I used a 3.0 USB port on my PC to create it. When I rebooted my laptop I selected the boot menu but it only showed to options, the Windows boot manager and the first partition of my internal hard drive, no matter what I did the thumb drive would not come up. I checked the BIOS and thumb drive booting was turned on and secure boot was turned off. I must be doing something wrong here or there is a bug in the latest installer image. what should I do?
If boot does not show the USB drive then most likely there is no bootable OS on it.
You can do 2 things to see if you can get it working:
download the raw file again and use the media writer to put it on the drive again. Watch for every comment, or
only place the downloaded raw file with the media writer onto the USB drive.
Did you do the checksum test after you downloaded the raw file? If not do that now to see if the download went okay.
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Is there a way to write the raw file in Windows itself? Can I use Fedora Media writer for Windows? I use the BitTorrent to download the raw files and I think BitTorrent automatically checksum the files don’t it? I know I can use Powershell to checksum the file, I know how to do that. What about Win32DiskImager?
I solved it by not using the BitTorrent version of the raw file. I downloaded the raw file using HTTP to Windows 11 Pro and used Fedora Media Writer to write the file and it worked. The BitTorrent version would not work. I think the BitTorrent version of the raw file either has a bug or Transmission version 4.1.0 mangles the download somehow. So if your having trouble on Windows like I did, give the HTTP download a try.
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Another way to create the boot disk beside Fedora is BalenEtcher - Glad you have resolved the source issue.