Windows install floppies and discs have gone the way of the dodo, but it still pays to keep a copy of the OS on a USB drive. Here's how to make your own.

Windows: Having a full Linux operating system on a USB thumb drive is pretty neat. Having that OS customized, with your own favorite apps and all your settings intact, is far more helpful. This ...

Make bootable flash drives from just about any free Linux-based boot disc with this utility. “Live” distributions of Linux offer a wonderful convenience forthose not quite ready to commit to the ...

To help ease the pain of upgrading to their new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft has released a neat Windows 7 USB installer. The utility, Windows 7 USB Download Tool, creates a bootable flash ...

Want to analyze, utilize, and perform different tasks with your USB? Try RMPrepUSB. It can do a lot of tasks with your USB. You can install different operating ...

While I understand the utility of a USB installer, it should be mentioned that macOS Internet recovery has been around since Lion. You can choose to install latest ...

So question for all you software guys, but if I wanted to make a thumbdrive that could run the installers for multiple OS's, can it even be done and how would I best go about doing it? What I'm ...

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

Saving a PC can go from very hard to extremely easy once you set this up.