You can mount an ISO image on an Android smartphone to use on a PC to install Windows or Linux or start recovery systems
There are times when the computer's operating system stops abnormally, perhaps because the internal disk has been broken or ruined, or because of a serious error that does not resolve at all.
In these cases, as we have learned, you can recover data using a portable operating system on DVD or USB stick, which can be started instead of Windows and that allows access to all the files to extract them from the disk and save them in a new one memory unit.
Furthermore, as we know, when reinstalling Windows, both with Windows 7 and with Windows 10, it is possible to make sure that the data on the disk is not erased.
But if you do not have another computer with which to create the disk or USB flash drive, we find out here how you can use a smartphone or an Android tablet to restore your PC and recover files.
In other words, let's see how to mount ISO from an Android smartphone to install Windows or Linux on a PC or to run a data recovery system from which to start the computer.
With an Android smartphone and the USB cable to be connected to the computer to use it as a normal external drive, you only need to use an application that is capable of making the ISO file bootable in the phone memory bootable or allowing the ISO to be copied to a USB stick connected to the phone.
The ISO file is the file that contains the installation files or running an operating system when the computer starts, which can be Windows, Linux or even a data recovery system or an antivirus system.
We have seen several examples of systems to start when the PC starts, for example to install Linux on a USB stick , different programs to burn ISO to USB and even how to create a USB pen to install Windows 7 10 and 8
With an Android smartphone it takes a special application to make the ISO bootable on PC and there are two possibilities:
1) The first possibility is the Drive Droid app, free and very popular with professional systems engineers.
This application allows you to store bootable ISO files on Android, to create a real operating system installation file directly in the phone, so that, by connecting the smartphone to the computer, you can then load the alternative operating system, or installation, directly from the phone's memory.
The application also provides direct links to the download of ISO or IMG images of installation of the main Linux distributions, making it even easier to use.
You can then connect the Android device to the PC and restart it from USB to load the operating system stored in the phone.
This app is ideal for testing Linux distributions on your computer or always having an emergency operating system to use to recover data from a broken computer.
The limit of this app is that it requires an Android smartphone unlocked with root to be used.
If we do not have the root, go to the second solution.
2) The second possibility to use an Android smartphone as a base for uploading ISO images or installing operating systems on a PC (which could also be the Windows installation file) is the ISO2USB application.
ISO2USB lets you burn an ISO file directly to a USB flash drive via USB-OTG.
This app does not require root permissions and can be used on any Android phone, even if it has an important limitation.
This app does not allow you to use the phone as a USB drive for your computer, but can instead load and boot an ISO image into a USB stick connected to the phone.
In practice, it provides a support to prepare, from the smartphone, the bootable USB stick to then use on the computer to install or load a Linux operating system, Windows or any recovery program.
The only requirement for an Android device to be used as a PC is that you have a cable for OTG data transfer, which stands for USB On-The-Go.
Thanks to OTG cables it is possible to connect a USB key as Extra memory of an Android smartphone , and also connect mouse and keyboard to the smartphone to use it as a PC.
If there is this function, this includes a mouse, a keyboard or even a USB storage device.
An OTG cable can be bought on Amazon at less than 5 Euros, with MicroUSB or even USB-C output depending on the phone used.
Once connected to the phone, the OTG adapter cable allows you to connect a USB flash drive on which to write the downloaded ISO.
From the application you can select the connected USB drive and then select the ISO file inside it.
Once finished, remove the USB device, insert it into the PC and start the computer from the USB flash drive.
There are times when the computer's operating system stops abnormally, perhaps because the internal disk has been broken or ruined, or because of a serious error that does not resolve at all.
In these cases, as we have learned, you can recover data using a portable operating system on DVD or USB stick, which can be started instead of Windows and that allows access to all the files to extract them from the disk and save them in a new one memory unit.
Furthermore, as we know, when reinstalling Windows, both with Windows 7 and with Windows 10, it is possible to make sure that the data on the disk is not erased.
But if you do not have another computer with which to create the disk or USB flash drive, we find out here how you can use a smartphone or an Android tablet to restore your PC and recover files.
In other words, let's see how to mount ISO from an Android smartphone to install Windows or Linux on a PC or to run a data recovery system from which to start the computer.
With an Android smartphone and the USB cable to be connected to the computer to use it as a normal external drive, you only need to use an application that is capable of making the ISO file bootable in the phone memory bootable or allowing the ISO to be copied to a USB stick connected to the phone.
The ISO file is the file that contains the installation files or running an operating system when the computer starts, which can be Windows, Linux or even a data recovery system or an antivirus system.
We have seen several examples of systems to start when the PC starts, for example to install Linux on a USB stick , different programs to burn ISO to USB and even how to create a USB pen to install Windows 7 10 and 8
With an Android smartphone it takes a special application to make the ISO bootable on PC and there are two possibilities:
1) The first possibility is the Drive Droid app, free and very popular with professional systems engineers.
This application allows you to store bootable ISO files on Android, to create a real operating system installation file directly in the phone, so that, by connecting the smartphone to the computer, you can then load the alternative operating system, or installation, directly from the phone's memory.
The application also provides direct links to the download of ISO or IMG images of installation of the main Linux distributions, making it even easier to use.
You can then connect the Android device to the PC and restart it from USB to load the operating system stored in the phone.
This app is ideal for testing Linux distributions on your computer or always having an emergency operating system to use to recover data from a broken computer.
The limit of this app is that it requires an Android smartphone unlocked with root to be used.
If we do not have the root, go to the second solution.
2) The second possibility to use an Android smartphone as a base for uploading ISO images or installing operating systems on a PC (which could also be the Windows installation file) is the ISO2USB application.
ISO2USB lets you burn an ISO file directly to a USB flash drive via USB-OTG.
This app does not require root permissions and can be used on any Android phone, even if it has an important limitation.
This app does not allow you to use the phone as a USB drive for your computer, but can instead load and boot an ISO image into a USB stick connected to the phone.
In practice, it provides a support to prepare, from the smartphone, the bootable USB stick to then use on the computer to install or load a Linux operating system, Windows or any recovery program.
The only requirement for an Android device to be used as a PC is that you have a cable for OTG data transfer, which stands for USB On-The-Go.
Thanks to OTG cables it is possible to connect a USB key as Extra memory of an Android smartphone , and also connect mouse and keyboard to the smartphone to use it as a PC.
If there is this function, this includes a mouse, a keyboard or even a USB storage device.
An OTG cable can be bought on Amazon at less than 5 Euros, with MicroUSB or even USB-C output depending on the phone used.
Once connected to the phone, the OTG adapter cable allows you to connect a USB flash drive on which to write the downloaded ISO.
From the application you can select the connected USB drive and then select the ISO file inside it.
Once finished, remove the USB device, insert it into the PC and start the computer from the USB flash drive.
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