Installing Windows from a USB flash drive is more convenient and faster than optical discs. Plus, if you have a netbook or another type of computer without an optical drive, you don't have any other ...

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 ...

I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

On XP, I load up cmd and enter diskpart. I then go to "list disk" but it only lists my hard drive, not the usb. I know the usb thumbdrive works because it shows up in compmgmt.msc disk management as ...

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 ...