Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

Virtual CDs and DVDs, also called disc images, are single files containing data stored within a CD or DVD file system. You can use them for archiving purposes in your business. You can also burn ...

USB memory sticks (a.k.a. flash drives or thumb drives) are handy little storage devices that make transferring files between computers very easy. Beginning computer users may not know how to use a ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

When you’re troubleshooting your computer or installing a new operating system, you may need to “boot from a disc” or USB device (like an external hard drive or flash drive). Here’s what that ...

Bart has BBIE which creates an image of a boot sector of a CD. All 2048 bytes of it. Bart's MKBT can apparently put a boot sector onto a USB flash stick but only a floppy boot sector like 512KB or ...

If you are wondering why copying files or a Bootable USB drive won’t work, then the answer is that copying will not make the drive bootable. Windows the computer starts, it looks for an entry point ...

Rufus stands for Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source. It is a tiny and lightweight utility for Windows PC that helps you easily format and create bootable USB drives, such as USB keys, memory ...

It may be easiest to get an external CD drive. Newegg has recertified ones for about $30. Also, even if you successfully installed a bootable Linux OS on a USB drive, you still need to make certain ...