We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer ...

Want to try or install a Linux distribution (distro) on your computer? Making a bootable flash drive with an image of the distro is the simplest route these days. I've done it dozens of times, and ...

Running Windows completely off of a USB flash drive is quite handy if you want to try a newer or older version of Windows ...

When something goes wrong with your Mac, it's a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy. Here's how to do it. The short answer to how you ...

Wasn't sure which forum to put this in but the admin forum seemed the likeliest place to find the people with the knowledge of VM ware to do this. <BR><BR>What I'm looking to do is have a thumb drive ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

I have a 4GB thumb drive that I want to partition so that I can boot from it and install an OS.<BR><BR>However, in Windows XP, when I run CMD and then DISKPART, I cannot find the thumb drive listed ...