
There are select devices that allow it to be used as a boot device and a laptop/PC isn’t one of them. You can burn just about anything to an SD card with Etcher but you can’t necessarily use an SD card as a boot device for all sorts of devices. Etcher will tell you when the process is complete and you can use the SD card to install whatever you burned to it. Next, select the disc image that you want to burn to it, and then click Flash. If it doesn’t, or it detects a different device, click the Change option under the device name and select your SD card.

Make sure you have a disc image ready to burn, and insert the SD card in your PC/laptop.Įtcher normally auto-selects the first device it detects for burning so it may automatically detect the SD card. Download it, install it, and run the app.

It supports burning to all sorts of storage devices, and it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. A reliable tool for burning disc images is Etcher.
