For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

I was a Rufus advocate for creating bootable USB drives, but I have shifted my stance to Ventoy. It's an exceptional utility that lets you keep multiple ISO image files on a single USB drive and is ...

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 have the ISO image already just use the "Disk Image" fields to point it at the one you want, and you're ready to go. UNetbootin will identify whatever likely candidate (s) it can find for the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. You've got one of these lying around. Just make it has a 4GB ...

I'm trying to apply an individual BIOS update to many servers. In the old days, I'd use Rufus to make a USB stick bootable, copy the BIOS update file to it, walk to the server room, plug it in, boot ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview is called that for a reason—there isn't a lot on the surface that looks very compelling about the new operating system to business users. The revelation that ...

Once you've got your live USB, boot to your USB drive in your PC's BIOS, and your Linux distro will boot up. You could extend ...