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in this video, we're going to install tails on a usb drive using the windows operating system.

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so if your home laptop or desktop is running windows, then this would be the video for you to learn how to install tails onto a usb.

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we will not be running a virtual machine in this video or doing a dvd.

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this is specifically to set up a usb.

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so let's hop over to our windows desktop and get started.

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so here on the windows desktop, this is a basic windows eleven install.

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so i'll be using pretty much a fresh version of windows eleven.

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we want to open up any browser and we'll just go ahead and go to the tails os website, which you can just find with searching tails os.

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and you can find the 1st one here, which is tails dot net.

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from this webpage, we simply want to download the image file that we're going to need to use with our usb.

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so we'll click install tails.

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and then we'll just download tails only.

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and then we'll click on this download.

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that should start downloading right away as we can see in the top right here.

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so we'll let that go ahead and download and we'll unpause this video when that is finished.

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and now that that download is complete, there is one additional step here that's always recommended to do.

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if you select your download to verify, it'll ask you to click on the file that you downloaded.

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we'll go ahead and do that here.

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and then it will actually verify that our download was correct.

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so this helps ensure that the download wasn't corrupted in any way.

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and that also there wasn't any potential man in the middle attacks inserting software that isn't directly part of the base tails that you got from the website.

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so definitely an important step to ensure you're getting the best quality file.

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so you can click on that and it shouldn't take too long now just to validate that everything looks good.

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and assuming the file is correct, once it finishes, it will say verification successful here.

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so that means we're good to go.

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now there is some additional guides on this page you can follow, but we're going to skip all of these for now.

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and we're going to look for an additional tool to actually install the image file we just downloaded.

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so we'll head over to google and we will download what's called rufus.

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and rufus is a software, really lightweight to create bootable usb drives.

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so we'll go to their web page here and we'll look for the downloads here.

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if you don't have an ad blocker or you're not blocking ads, you'll see a bunch of ads on the side that say download.

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make sure to ignore those and just click this one here.

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and depending on your operating system, make sure you select the right one.

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but we'll click the windows exe version and we'll go ahead and launch that.

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we'll allow it to check for updates just in case there ever is one.

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and there it is ready to go.

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so now what we will do is we will plug in our usb device.

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and when we do, it should detect it.

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now i've already used this usb to install tails, that's why it's named tails, but yours might be named something different.

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so double check and make sure you're using the right one.

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a good way is double checking that file size.

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so this is a 65. gigabit usb.

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so depending on what size you plug in, you'll know the file size there or the size of the device that is.

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and then now we want to actually select our image.

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so we'll keep it on disk or iso image.

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and then we will just take this drop down right here, click on it.

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and we will click the disk image file that we downloaded in the previous steps.

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and that's really it.

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you don't need to mess with any of these other settings unless you know what you're doing here.

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be careful with those.

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we'll just click start.

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it'll warn us that it's going to erase everything on the usb drive.

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so be sure you're okay with that.

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click ok. and it will start the image process, allowing you to have that bootable usb with tails on it.

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so we'll let it do its thing and when it's done, we'll come back to this again.

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okay, and once it is completed, it'll just show ready here at the bottom.

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no fancy pop- ups or anything like that.

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it's just ready to go.

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so now you can take this usb and you can boot from it on a computer.

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we'll show you those steps in future videos, but for now you've created the usb.

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if you want to learn how to create usb on different oss, there's videos on that after this one and there's also a video on dvds and then how to actually start up tails.

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if you have any questions, of course, let me know.

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otherwise, we'll see you in the next one.