Most of the time, Linux is run from either an installation on a hard drive or a live CD/DVD distribution. The first is fast, but not very portable; the second can be run anywhere you have a computer ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons. I’ve used Linux in just about every way possible ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a cornerstone skill for anyone interested in exploring different operating systems or working in system administration. A bootable USB drive allows a user to boot into ...

Is there any way (or if anyone has done) an Ubuntu Live USB with PE Windows and/or BartPE? I would like to combine these two together and just be able to choose which one I would like to boot/use ...

After all the recent talk about DIY NAS units in the "Other Hardware" forum, I am thinking about building a new one for myself. Currently using an old P3 with a addin SATA card and gigabit NIC, but ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...