Create bootable USB stick

Before you can install TwinCAT/BSD on a Industrial PC, you must create a bootable USB stick and upload the current image to the USB stick. Use a flash tool such as Rufus to do this. You can then start Industrial PC from the USB stick and install TwinCAT/BSD.

Requirements for this step:

Proceed as follows:

1. Start the Rufus tool on a PC with a Windows operating system.
2. Click Select and select the image you want to upload to the USB stick.
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3. Under Device, select a USB stick as the target drive. If only one external drive is connected to your PC, the USB stick will be selected automatically.
Notice : Data on the USB stick is irrevocably deleted.
4. Click Start to upload the image to the USB stick.
The process may take a few minutes. Do not cancel the process until the Ready message appears. You have successfully created a bootable USB stick and can install TwinCAT/BSD on the Industrial PC in the next step.

Notice

Backups on a partition that has not yet been initialized will be lost

After creating it with Rufus, the USB flash drive initially contains only the partition BHF-PREOP. The partition designated for backups, BHF, is created or renamed only when the USB drive is booted for the first time.

Therefore, do not copy any backup files to the USB drive until it has been booted. Otherwise, the installer will not recognize the files as backups, or they will be lost (see: Partitions and folder structure).