Stop throwing away old boot drives—they're still faster than any USB stick ...

Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...

There are a growing number of PC-on-a-stick devices featuring Intel Atom processors. Some run Windows. Others run Android. With a little elbow grease you can get some to run Ubuntu. But now we’re also ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...

More new Windows 8 features have been leaked. Speedier boot-up times and cloud-syncing capability will be built into Windows 8, which you'll be able to carry around with you on a memory stick. Richard ...

Now that Windows 11 is out, you might be internally debating whether to make the leap now, wait a bit for it to mature, or stick with Windows 10 (or whatever OS you are currently using) for the long ...

My colleague Lee Hutchinson had a hell of a time getting Windows onto our SteamOS box. Through a series of mishaps and misfortunes, he somehow managed to destroy a Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive ...

Keep an eye on your PC when you’ve just switched it on. Usually, a screen flashes by before Windows (or Linux, for that ...

The CDROM image was a firmware upgrade image from Dell (based on Linux). Mounting the image with iDRAC, it worked nicely. As one of the Servers had a dying iDRAC (Dell R320), I needed an USB stick.