Over the years, a few operating systems and tools have become staples for my recovery drive. These operating systems run on ...

If you use Windows, it is always a good idea to have a Windows 11 or Windows 10 Bootable USB around. My new Windows setup crashed, and I had no way to use Advanced Recovery. So I had two options—find ...

If you often create bootable USB drives using third-party software on Windows, you might need to format it first. However, you can use Ventoy2Disk, which is a free tool to create a bootable USB drive ...

That tool is Easy2Boot, and don't let the janky UI put you off because you will want to learn what it can do. My only suggestion is to get a large USB drive to use with it, since you will want to fit ...

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 ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS straight from a USB drive, but is that the right way to go? Let's take a look at the pros and cons.

Windows 11's Insider Preview builds keep coming fast and furious. Just a couple of weeks ago, the next version of Windows made the shift from developer builds into beta, indicating that Microsoft ...

I'm not a big fan of optical drives, and haven't had one in my system for quite sometime now (probably around the time Windows Vista was released). How do you install Windows if you don't have an ...

Instead of carrying multiple flash drives with one version of windows on each drive, I would like to carry XP, VIISTA, and 7 on the same 16 gig flash drive, however several of the programs I have ...

The "Bootable" legacy ISO you've used is in fact not bootable, it relies on CDROM emulation provided by BIOS. VMs don't usually do this sort of emulation. If you set the guest OS to something like ...