Questions tagged [usb-boot]
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?
Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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Installing Windows 10 "Windows can't be installed on MBR. Convert to GPT"
I was on Windows 7, with 4 partitions. I decided to do a complete clean up and upgrade to Windows 10.
So, while doing that, I selected the option, (I don't remember it exactly, but) clean up ...
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Make UEFI, GPT, Bootloader, SSD, USB, Linux and Windows work together
I like to use the latest hardware and the latest software; thus I have a Laptop (Lenovo X220) with
UEFI instead of BIOS
an SSD instead of an HDD
GPT partitioning scheme instead of MBR
USB to boot ...
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Linux USB Key - Only able to boot when formatted to FAT (Gigabyte motherboard)
I am able to a USB bootable memory stick (My motherboard is a Gigabyte EP31-DS3L see Fig 2) using either Universal USB Installer or unetbootin if I have formatted the drive before hand to FAT see Fig ...
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How can I make Windows XP bootable from a flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
Can I run Windows XP from a USB flash drive?
I know how to make a bootable flash drive, but when I attempted to make ...
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Run Windows from USB Disk
I have an internal hard drive with Windows 7. Usually, it's in my desktop computer, but I now want to run it from my laptop, as well. (The laptop is a dual boot Windows 7, Ubuntu machine.) When I ...
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