I've got a 4 Gigabyte flash drive that I'd like to make bootable. For right now, I need it to boot DOS or DS linux. I'd like to have it boot to grub or something similar so I can select either one.

I'm trying to use a USB 2.0 external hard drive with Norton Ghost but I haven't had any luck recognizing the thing in DOS mode. I used Norton's ghost boot wizard to make a bootable floppy for ...

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 ...

Normally, if you are unable to boot into Windows and cannot access your files, you can create a bootable drive and use the media to boot and repair your OS installation. Perhaps, not widely known by ...

Running Windows completely off of a USB flash drive is quite handy if you want to try a newer or older version of Windows without affecting your current system. The USB drive can also serve as a ...

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Creating a bootable USB drive is a common task for installing or repairing operating systems, but verifying its bootability without restarting the computer can be challenging. Here are several methods ...