How To Create A Chrome OS Flex Bootable Installation USB Stick

So what we need to do in order to prepare a USB flash drive with Google Chrome OS flex on it is to do it via the chrome browser .

This at the moment is the only way that you can actually prepare one of these USB flash drives .

So as we can see here , I have got my chrome browser open .

Now , the next thing that we need to do is to make sure that we have got Chromebook recovery utility installed as an extension to the browser .

And if you don't already have this extension installed onto your chrome browser , there will be a link in the description to this video taking you to where you can install this particular extension .

So what I'm gonna do now is just click on add to chrome .

So click there and then I will click on add extension .

That's going to install very fast .

Now , there we go .

So that's now installed .

So what I'm now going to do is go to my extensions icon up here and click on that now , within the extensions list here , I only have a few .

You may have a lot or may only have one or two .

But just find the extension that says Chromebook Recovery Utility , and then click on that now , once the recovery utility is open , it will tell us here you'll need an eight gigabyte or larger USB flash drive or s D card that you don't mind a rate .

Now , in this instance , I would strongly suggest that you use a USB flash drive and not an S D card .

And just use the fastest flash drive that you can use as well , and just obviously make sure it is at least eight gigabytes .

And then what we're gonna do is click on get started .

Now , on the next page , we're going to see this option that says , Select a model from a list .

So let's click on that .

And then when it says select a manufacturer , we click on there .

We will then scroll down until we find Google chrome OS flex .

So we will click on that .

And now what we've got here is select the product .

Click on that and then we will select chrome OS Flex now , right now , because this is an early development .

This is the developer and the unstable mode that I'm going to be installing right now .

However , depending upon when you may see this guard , this may be the final version .

Nonetheless , I'm going to select on this chrome OS flex .

Now , what I'm going to do is just click on , continue here , and then what it's gonna ask us here is to insert your USB flash drive or s D card .

Now , I've already got my USB flash drive connected to my computer .

So you go ahead and connect yours .

And then what we need to do is come down here and click on Select .

Now , this is going to give us a list of all the flash drives connected to the computer .

Now , Right now , I would strongly recommend that just so that you don't erase anything by a mistake .

Only have the flash drive connected that you want to install the operating system onto , just as I have here .

Just one drive so I can't get confused and then maybe just delete the wrong drive .

So anyways , that's the one that I'm going to use .

I'm just gonna click on that , And the next thing to do here is to click Continue .

This will now prompt us and say create a recovery image important .

All data and partitions on your recovery media will be deleted .

So this is just reminding us once again that the flash drive that we're using is going to get completely erased .

Now , what I'm going to do is to click on , create now .

So let me do that .

Now , What this is saying is don't remove your recovery media .

So this is saying here download and 4% complete two minutes remaining .

I don't know how long this is going to take in the long run , and it will be different from person to person .

This will be dependent upon your Internet speed and such .

So what I'm gonna do right now is just speed through this .

But I will let you know roughly how long this is taken from this point .

In order for me to get to the next point of the video .

OK , so up to this point , this took about two minutes to get to this point .

So what this is saying here is do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device ?

So I'm obviously going to say yes here .

So just gonna click on .

Yes , And what's going to happen now is that the recovery utility will start burning the disc image to the USB flash drive .

And once again , I will just speed up through this until it is completed .

OK , so as we can see , the burning of the disc image to the flash drive is now being completed .

This took about another minute and a half , but as we can see here , we've got a message saying You need to format the disc in Drive G A .

In my instance , although this might say a different letter on your system before you can use it now , definitely do not format the drive what it is .

This message may pop up for you as well .

This is basically Windows saying that it has got a flash drive connected that needs format , and that's only because Windows doesn't understand what is on the drive .

So just go ahead and then click on the X , and we'll get rid of that message here .

We might have to click through a few times , depending upon how many drives it thinks you've got attached .

And so now we have got Google chrome OS Flex installed onto a Bootle USB flash drive , and this can now be used to boot and launch chrome OS flex onto any compatible Windows , desktop or laptop , and also compatible Mac desktops and laptops .