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 ...

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

As someone who extensively writes about all things Windows, I find myself installing the Windows operating system quite often. Most of the time, these installations are geared toward setting up ...

Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup repair ...

Sometimes you may run into a situation where your system fails to respond correctly. Under such circumstances, you may find booting into another OS as your best option. Sometimes, troubleshooting PC ...

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 ...

That way I don't have to mess around with bootable USB sticks or bootable DVD's which are a PITA. I wanted to use the smaller Backup O/S w/o all the extra 'stuff' which wouldn't be needed if the Main ...

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