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How to indicate to Ventoy (Bootable USB) to ignore some content in the pen drive?
For some laptops where do not exist the CD-ROM, for boot purposes can be used Ventoy
A New Bootable USB Solution - sadly so far is mandatory apply just only once time a formatting process to the pen ...
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Windows 7 home x64 installer cannot boot 0xc000000d
I'd like to temporarily install Windows 7 home on one of my computer for testing. I have Win7_HomePrem_SP1_Hungarian_COEM_x64.iso As far as I remember I downloaded it 3 years ago from Microsoft. I ...
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Cannot Install OS from Bootable FAT32 Drive
I have put an Ubuntu 18.04.4 disc image on a JetFlash Transcend 1100 8 GB which is formatted as FAT32 with the intent to install it on an ASUS F555L laptop. This USB drive is recognized by the BIOS ...
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How to make bootable flash from ISO with DD?
I have downloaded ALT Linux rescue ISO and wrote it to my flash stick with
sudo dd if=regular-rescue-latest-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda1
Unfortunately, it doesn't boot on my old computer. I tried USB-HDD,...
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Authoring bootable ISO file
I find the variety of ISO-to-USB "burning" tools a bit baffling. Each seems to have its own slightly different approach to the problem, which vary from more of a DD-style direct copy (which wipes any ...
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How exactly is an image made to be "bootable" by a system?
I've long known that you cannot simply put a disk image on a CD or USB flash drive and expect it to boot, but what characteristics make an image bootable?
I ask this because one of my computers ...
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windows 10 iso on usb refuses to boot after using dd to write it [duplicate]
I am using a windows "standard" ISO file: Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso and I have verified its md5 matches the expected. The iso is mountable in OS X as a "UDF" format.
I then ...
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Trick Windows 7 into downloading a repair disk without an optical drive
I have, over time, encountered numerous problems which have caused me to repair/restore Windows 7. I don't have an optical drive installed on my system which causes me various issues including not ...
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What is it that makes some USB sticks not-bootable?
I recently got a 64GB USB stick and planned to make it a system repair multitool, with different Linux and Windows installers and live images, but I seem to have a USB stick that cannot be booted.
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Create a bootable device manually, without ISO burn
I'm looking to create a bootable USB memory stick. However the USB stick has data that I can't afford to delete. If I were to burn an iso image on it the ordinary way, say with Ultraiso, the data will ...
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How can I make DBAN bootable from UFD?
I want to make DBAN bootable from a UFD (USB Flash Drive). I have the ISO image (dban-2.2.7_i586.iso) and I am using a tool called Rufus (rufus_v1.3.4.exe).
I first tried using the default settings. ...
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How can I create a bootable iso image from a bootable flash drive?
I have a bootable installer image of Win7x64 on a flash drive. How can I create a bootable iso of it to use with VMware Workstation et al?
I have used Plop Boot Manager, but I'd really like to make ...
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Install XP over Ubuntu. (Flash Drive)
My girlfriend needs to install Windows XP over Ubuntu on her PC, because she need to run some software that Wine and a visual machine can't handle as well as the 'real' thing.
Problem is, it seems ...
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Booting from pen drive - possible or not
I have an iso file of operating system's set up.
Now, I don't have dvd burner right now.
But the alternate - 4gb pen drive is available.
If I copy entire iso file to pen drive,
Can my system boot ...
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Ubuntu karmic 9.10 Live image on USB is not working
This is my configuration:
4GB HP pendrive
Ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386 image file for live USB install
pendrivelinux (u910p) and ubetbootin (unetbootin.sourceforge.net)
T61 machine
Earlier I have ...
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