How to Boot Windows or Linux via a Flash Drive – SYSTM
Boot Windows or Linux via USB! USB Flash Drives are more than just storage, they’re a great way to run your safe copy of Linux or Windows on -any- machine that can boot from USB! This secret tip gives you security, safety, and ease of mind – and also makes it easy to fix your PC! Thanks for favorite / rating and commenting, Subscribe for more!
25 Responses to “How to Boot Windows or Linux via a Flash Drive – SYSTM”


Hows the speed considering that usb sticks don’t have the best read/write/seek speeds?
Hows the performance off a usb using ubuntu?
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The cruzer is the god of all usb
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I would really like this but since I’m not that much a tech person this is a little above my undertanding.. I wish they just made a program that did this for you..
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im going to try this… I have a really good pc that had a hard drive failure so as I was putting a new one in it, my brother said i was doing it wrong(I did it right) and he couldn’t get his hand in it and ended up ripping out something for the disk drive, and now it doesn’t open and the Hard Drive has no OS on it, so im going to put Linux on it with USB
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Its not great but its usable
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Which USB drive do you need, that are usable for booting. Does anyone have a list or manual of the procedure you have to do in order to make the boot drive?
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Yea i Have a 4gb SandiskCruzer. Loving the built in security and everything in it.
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lexar has a program free in theree flash drive called secure 2 its the bomb i got mine freee from my school its half a gb i know weak but 512mb is usable
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cool. good luck
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lol, it worked, but i just took my hard drive from my emachines and put Vista on it, found out my product key, and put that hard drive in the good pc and it is like it was before now
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He probably just didn’t remove U3 from the sandisk ones. I have two, 4GB Sandisks with U3 removed and they both boot perfectly on my Dell Mini 10v.
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w00t systm revision 3 is merging them with tekzilla and i dont like the idea
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USB drives are not cheap!!!!
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Yes they are.
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im lost
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thanks
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the memory you lost was taken by the file system tables. fat32 has very simple file system tables and therefore takes up only a small amount of space. ntfs is more complex and optimized for larger hard drives, so it takes up a little more space. your physical drive still stores the same amount of data, it’s just that some of that data is used by the system.
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SO how do I do this with sandisk?
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Can you please tell me how you did it?
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How can I delete it from my usb drive because I have a scandisk 2gb U3 and I cant find a root or a file that its in it saved in the physical memory of my usb and like I said I cant find any file or nothing so I format it but it still takes up the space, I have no clue how to delete it, can you please help?
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Fuck Vista..
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when they are talking about booting a USB OS, do they mean from restarting the PC and going to BIOS or open something like a virtual OS inside a PC OS ?
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and my Ubuntu does not have the “create USB startup” option, any idea how i proceed ?
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I do this with my MP3 Player. I’ve got a version of Slax on it. It runs pretty well.
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well if you are using windows do this…
(this will delete everything on your usb drive)
start
computer
right click your usb drive
check off the little quick format button
then press start
and that should be all
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