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WiNToBootic: Drag & Drop ISO Images To Create Bootable USB Drives For Windows Installation

Before the use of USB flash drives to install Windows became common, we could only install Windows on our computers using CDs. At that time, installing an operating system using a USB flash drive sounded like a thing of the future, but today, it is as common as using a CD. Newer versions of Microsoft [...] (more…)

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Disconnect USB Devices Without Using Safely Remove Hardware Option [Tip]

When you started using your first USB flash drive, someone must have told you to always use the “Safely Remove Hardware” option before pulling out of your computer. Earlier operating systems did have this requirement in order to avoid corruption of your flash memory. However, the operating systems have evolved with time, and the “Safely [...] (more…)

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Multiboot USB Installer: Boot Multiple Live Linux Distros From A Single USB

In the past, we’ve covered an application called XBoot that allows you to create multi-boot USB flash drives from a set of ISO image files.  It makes it easy to download the bootable ISOs from host websites and unpack them in a multiboot setup. Today, we have an open source application named Multiboot USB Installer that [...] (more…)

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Create Bootable Windows 8 Installer USB With Win8USB

There was a time when we could only install Windows on our computers using CDs. Installing Windows from a USB flash drive seemed a thing of the future, but today, using a USB flash drive to install Windows is as common as using DVDs. Newer versions of Microsoft Windows, like Windows 7, can be installed [...] (more…)

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USB Fix It: Microsoft’s Answer To USB Device Related Issues

Sometimes, while trying to connecting connect new devices to the PC, like a new printer, scanner or USB flash drive, we run into USB issues. Some of the most common problems related to USB flash drives is when ejecting the USB device, Windows doesn’t allow you to remove it using the Safely Remove Hardware dialog [...] (more…)

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USB Disk Manager: Control Level Of Access & Viruses For Flash Drives

Plugging in random USB flash drives into our computers is one of the primary sources of viruses and spamware. What happens is that when a USB is inserted into an infected computer, the virus automatically transfers itself into the target machine. When you plug the same USB flash drive into another computer, the virus gets [...] (more…)

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Rufus: Create Bootable USB To Install Windows & Linux, Flash BIOS And More

In the past, we have covered a number of tools to create bootable USB drive, such as Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool (to create a bootable DVD/USB for installing Windows 7 and Windows 8) and WinSetupFromUSB (to create a multi-boot setup from a folder containing the setup files).  Today, we came across another small, yet powerful bootable USB creator called Rufus. [...] (more…)

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Delete Record Of Previously Connected USB Devices Using USBOblivion

Whenever you connect a USB to your computer, Windows keeps a record of it. This can cause some privacy issues because anyone, who knows where to look, can find out which devices were connected to the computer at what times. These records are stored in the Windows Registry and are easily accessible using any registry [...] (more…)

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Enable USB Host Function On Samsung Galaxy S I9000 & Samsung Captivate

USB host functionality has been a hot topic for a about a year now with more and more Android devices seeming to support the function, especially the newer Android devices. That said, Ice Cream Sandwich is all the rage right now, and would it not be awesome if the Galaxy S got USB Host functionality [...] (more…)

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XXCLONE: Backup System Volumes While Retaining Self Boot Functionality

Backup for system volumes can be performed with a number of applications. However, retaining the self-booting functionality of a volume can be difficult to achieve using conventional tools. XXCLONE is an application for copying your system volume to another, while retaining self-booting functionality. Using this application, you can even boot your system from the clone [...] (more…)

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O&O AutoBackup: Automatically Backup Files To USB Drive When Plugged In

O&O AutoBackup is an application to automatically synchronize files and folders from a source folder to a removable media device such as a USB or external hard drive. For example, you can create a backup copy of your important office documents, so that they are automatically saved to a USB when changes are made to [...] (more…)

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WinUSB: Create Bootable Windows Installer USB In Ubuntu Linux

WinUSB is an Ubuntu application for creating a Windows USB installer for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Like other applications that enable creating installer USBs, you can create a bootable (installation) USB from an ISO disc image or a DVD. While other tools like Unetbootin can perform similar tasks, however, WinUSB is much simpler than [...] (more…)

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How To Create Customizable Multiboot System Rescue Disk

System Rescue bootable disks are built to help users easily troubleshoot those PC problems, which are generally quite difficult to fix such as corrupt boot sector, malware infected system files, physical & logical hard disk bad sectors, disk write failures and so on. In our previous guide on completely wiping the hard disk, we recommended [...] (more…)

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Identify Processes Hindering Removable Media Ejection With Dev Eject

Many a time, when a user attempts to securely eject a USB drive, an error message pops up on the screen, alerting that the device cannot be ejected as it is in use. In such a case, it can be hard to identify which processes might be using the USB device, and therefore, it becomes [...] (more…)

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LiveUSB Install: Create Live Linux USB, CD/DVD And Download ISO Images

Using a Live USB for installing or running an operating system can be more useful than a Live CD, as optical drives have a lower read/write rate, and do not allow writing extra information. When it comes to using Live Linux USBs, there are many available tools, such as Linux Live USB Creator. LiveUSB Install is a [...] (more…)