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Clonezilla, here to stay, not fade away!*
Blog Running as a “Linux live CD” iso image just over 100 megabytes large, one method touted is to operate it on a USB drive pen. Since I have tried booting a Linux “Live CDROM” off a USB drive before, I didn't think it would be much of an issue.
[June 16, 2009, 10:03]
Time to get a life, Windows eats all my free time
Blog Before the OS image is copied, the USB flash drive runs a number of routines set to partition, format and run chkdsk /f on the newly NTFS formatted partitions on the installed hard drive. The system starts running on a USB flash drive that is...
[March 30, 2008, 11:40]
Windows 7 on a Read-only Flash Drive?
Blog Then think about what it would take to make a mass assembly line operation to clone the image onto USB flash drives thousands or millions of times! Considering that the price of a 4GB USB flash drive has been as low as 5 dollars on close-out...
[June 30, 2009, 2:13]
Moblin on the Nettop - First Steps
Blog Copy the image to a CD or USB drive. I just used dd to squirt it onto an unused USB thumb drive. Be careful when you do this, because the image has to be copied to the raw device, so it will overwrite anything that is currently on the device.
[June 9, 2009, 11:32]
Acronis True Image 11 Home
Blog However, when I had transferred the data, his USB drive had not been large enough to do everything at once, so I had used an extra drive that I had laying about, and then made a partial backup on his drive.
[February 27, 2008, 11:39]
Epson EMP 765 review
Reviews It features both USB A and USB B ports, so you can plug in a notebook or pull images and video from a camera, a flash key or an external drive. In our tests, the projector worked like a charm with a variety of flash cards and USB memory drives but...
[April 13, 2006, 10:25]
LaCie Silverscreen (80GB) review
Reviews The Silverscreen draws its power via the USB cable when you attach the drive to your PC. Attached to a TV, it runs off a mini-USB to an AC power adapter (the unit has no AC jack). There's also a USB pass-through adapter with both a mini-USB port...
[March 24, 2005, 10:20]
Portable Gimp.app
Downloads Portable Gimp.app is the Gimp.app the self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X by Aaron Voisine packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod...
[April 21, 2006, 8:00]
Mandriva Flash review
Reviews If you're not able to update the BIOS, there is a workaround — so long as you come prepared: the USB stick contains a small 3MB bootable CD-ROM image, and if you write this to a CD and carry it with you, the system can be booted from here...
[January 5, 2007, 13:53]
Active@ Undelete Data Recovery
Downloads After booting from the CD/DVD you will see a Windows environment with Networking, so you can either just recover your data (copy files to a USB drive or Network drive).Version 7.3.003 improves file sorting and Windows 7 support.
[June 10, 2009, 4:25]
Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog The Official Damn Small Linux Book comes with a LiveCD that also has the means of burning a customized-by-the-user version onto another CD, installing it on a USB flash drive, running it in a VMPlayer window and another way of running it is in a...
[July 15, 2008, 9:11]
Iomega Rev review
Reviews Because it's an external USB 2.0 drive, the Rev is reasonably plug-and-play: we followed the seven-step procedure outlined in Iomega's quick-start guide, and in just a few minutes we had installed the drivers and software, plugged in the drive and...
[June 9, 2004, 9:40]
Mandriva Linux gets flashy
Blog Not every PC has a BIOS that allows booting from a USB drive, but there is a workaround involving a small CD image on the stick that you burn onto a disc and boot from with the USB stick inserted. I'll post a full review soon, but the main...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
Preparing for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Blog Second, remember that the Ubuntu LiveCD image can now be copied to a USB stick, and then booted and installed from that. Assuming you are already running Ubuntu, the utility to copy the image to USB media is in the Administration menu.
[October 28, 2009, 19:38]
Microsoft releases Windows 7 beta
News A USB drive encrypted using BitLocker To Go will be usable on a PC running Windows 7, Vista or XP — although an XP machine will only be able to read the drive after downloading software to allow this.
[January 8, 2009, 1:30]
Norton Ghost 2002 review
Reviews Note that Ghost will not work with CD-R/RW drives that are connected via a USB cable. Since you normally can't back up open files, such as the Windows Registry, you can't make an exact disk image while Windows is running.
[February 4, 2002, 23:00]
Boot from an SD Memory Card
Blog Compared to booting the LiveCD from a USB CD/DVD drive, it is lightning fast. So I just used the latest Ubuntu 9.04 Beta LiveCD, which has a "USB Startup Disk Creator" option, and created a bootable SD card!
[April 1, 2009, 12:59]
How to upgrade your PC to Windows XP review
Reviews With our test system, which contained two hard drives, we placed the drivers for our Netgear MA101 wireless USB adapter onto the D: drive for safekeeping. We installed drivers for our test system's Netgear MA101 wireless USB adapter to allow...
[January 28, 2004, 8:10]
Alienware MJ-12 8550i review
Reviews Other niceties include a 700-Watt multi-GPU PSU, Alienware Professional motherboard with Intel Xeon 5000P Chipset, 18x Dual Layer DVD±RW drive, integrated High-Definition audio, integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (DSL-ready), Alienware 28...
[June 27, 2007, 10:31]
Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN review
Reviews The DataTank, which measures 9.6cm wide by 12.4cm high by 20cm deep and weighs 2.9kg, is a combination of external hard disk drive, file server (four gigabit LAN ports; one WLAN) and USB server (two USB 2.0 high-speed ports).
[October 9, 2007, 9:37]
