There are a couple of ways of creating a bootable USB drive, but we're going to use the command prompt in Windows so you don't need to download any extra third-party software.

Some modern computers don't have a CD/DVD drive for installing or upgrading an operating system. You can create a bootable USB using a command line on Windows operating systems (7,8,8.1,10, and 11).

You can also use this drive to rescue data from corrupt Windows systems. Here’s how to create a live USB stick of Linux distributions from Windows, macOS and Linux.

If you’d rather make your own, however, this guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 10 DVD.

A bootable USB key is a convenient way to install operating systems on netbooks without optical drives, or carrying around a Live OS with you at all times. It especially makes sense if you're ...

Perhaps they referenced this guide to create a bootable Live USB on Windows, allowing them to test drive something like Ubuntu without making any changes to their PC.

Trying to get started with VMware's virtualization app but lack an optical drive on your Apple computer? Here's how to transform the ISO into a bootable flash drive for installing the hypervisor.

Beginning with 10.9, the best/only way to create a bootable USB is via createinstallmedia, or one of the third party GUI apps that likely just uses that command behind the scenes.