A flash drive is one of the single most useful tools a person can own. With it you can back up critical data, transport large files, rescue a malware-infested PC, and even run an entire operating ...

Some operating systems can be a pain in the rear to install if you don’t happen to have an optical disc drive for your computer. But if you’re trying to install most Linux-based operating system such ...

What do you use your USB flash drive for? Have you considered running Linux from it? A Linux Live USB flash drive is a great way to try out Linux without making any changes to your computer. It's also ...

Most IT professionals carry a bootable USB with recovery software, Antivirus scanners, Bootable Linux, etc. But the problem is that they need multiple USB drives for each image. Here is a solution – ...

Margaret T. wants to boot from a flash drive and work on documents from there. You’ll need to get an operating system onto the flash drive. You’ve got a number of ...

One of the best things a Windows user can do for Defensive Computing is to have a bootable copy of Linux on hand. The classic reason being to rescue a broken copy of the operating sytem, but the much ...

The primary factor in setting up USB booting is whether or not USB boot is supported in the BIOS of the system that you want to boot from a USB device. If the system BIOS supports USBHDD or USBZIP, ...