Most of the time, Linux is run from either an installation on a hard drive or a live CD/DVD distribution. The first is fast, but not very portable; the second can be run anywhere you have a computer ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons. I’ve used Linux in just about every way possible ...

Setting up on different PCs can be a hassle, but a portable Linux installation on a USB drive lets me take my setup to any PC ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a cornerstone skill for anyone interested in exploring different operating systems or working in system administration. A bootable USB drive allows a user to boot into ...

After all the recent talk about DIY NAS units in the "Other Hardware" forum, I am thinking about building a new one for myself. Currently using an old P3 with a addin SATA card and gigabit NIC, but ...

Is there any way (or if anyone has done) an Ubuntu Live USB with PE Windows and/or BartPE? I would like to combine these two together and just be able to choose which one I would like to boot/use ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

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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 ...