For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

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 ...

Have a USB boot drive handy should you ever need to reinstall Windows 10 on your PC. You can troubleshoot an old PC at your home. In addition to common issues to look for, there's another task you ...

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 ...

Several days ago, we covered where to download a Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 ISO image file, but a common question is what do you do once the image is downloaded? The answer is make a bootable USB drive out ...

There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

How to create an OS X multiboot USB install drive Your email has been sent In an ideal world, sysadmins everywhere would only need to manage one or two operating systems–one desktop, one server–and ...

How do I get an iso image onto a USB drive instead of making a bootable CD-ROM? I have a disk drive utility from seagate, but no blank CD's to make a bootable CD with the ISO image. Is there a utility ...

I am in charge of upgrading a small computer lab from Windows XP to Windows 7 and I'm having a hell of a time with it. One quirk of these computers is that they don't have a DVD drive, so I've made an ...

Creating a bootable Windows USB drive used to be a chore, but today, one solution can pretty-well suit most people. However, there are times when a flash drive has some quirk that prevents it from ...