Posts Tagged ‘bootable usb’

Install Ubuntu Linux Using a USB Stick – The 3 Step Guide

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux OS, and the most user friendliest (rivaling Windows) and in some cases better than windows and most importantly FREE, Ubuntu has a huge and a very friendly community and the biggest and the most comprehensive hardware support than any other Linux distribution. Therefore it has the millions of users [...]

Guide to Install Windows XP Using USB Stick

Windows XP is one of the best OS Microsoft ever produced. Even today when Windows 7 has gained popularity many people still prefer using Windows XP. Windows XP takes less resources and mainly many people prefer is as it uses way less RAM and HDD space than the new operating systems (Vista and 7). A [...]

WinToFlash – Make Bootable USB Drive, The Easy Way

Most of us do not like DVDs or other optical media, they get scratched and need a lot of space to keep. And sometimes the data written on them gets lost for no obvious reason. And writing them is another headache. Saying that USB drives do not have any of these disadvantages, they are small [...]

Installing Windows 7 from a USB Drive: Newbie Guide

There have been a lot of installing Vista/Win7 via USB articles in the recent past, all using different types of methods. Now with Windows 7 round the corner and with the RC version being a success people have started to tryout Windows 7 and I’ve received a lot of mail, some stating it works and [...]

How to Install Windows 7 using a USB Hard disk

Earlier I wrote a tutorial on how to install Vista from a USB flash drive, the method given in that post worked for some and did not work for certain drives. Recently I tried to install Windows 7 the same way using a USB Hard disk but it didn’t work. So here’s a tutorial on [...]

How to Boot/Install Vista from a USB Flash drive

There’s already an article about this on the site but since its not complete I’ll be writing this  tutorial on how to create a bootable  Vista installation USB flash drive. Requirements A 4GB flash drive (I’ll be using a much lesser one here as I don’t have one) A Vista Installation DVD The bios must [...]