Make a boot USB from Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, XP
Easily Boot Windows 11 from USB, fully contained inside a Virtual Hard Disk (VHDx) image file. The following process enables you to take a full installation of Windows with you on a removable external flash drive, and then run the Operating System portably at any computer that can boot from USB.
System Rescue (formerly known as System Rescue CD) is a Linux based live system toolkit that is designed to provide a variety of tools for repairing and recovering computers. It is primarily used to troubleshoot and repair an unbootable or otherwise damaged computer systems after a system crash.
Create a Puppy Linux Live USB from Windows. In the following section I show you one way to install and run a Live Puppy Linux from a bootable USB flash drive using the Universal USB Installer.
How to Effortlessly Make a USB Bootable KALI Linux flash drive with persistence using YUMI from within Windows. KALI is based on Debian Linux.
Can you boot from an exFAT USB? Absolutely, but not by using a typical approach to USB booting.
How to Install Grub2 on USB from Windows. The following covers the process of installing Grub2 on a USB Flash Drive from within Windows.
How to Install Clonezilla on USB drive from Windows. Clonezilla software is a free partition or disk clone tool that works similar to Norton Ghost and Partition Image.
Bootable Ubuntu USB with Persistence. The following segment covers how to use YUMI as an Ubuntu Bootable USB creator from within Windows or in Linux via WINE.
How to Install Gentoo on USB. The following how to tutorial explains one way to create a Gentoo Live USB bootable flash thumb drive using Windows, a Gentoo Live DVD, and the Universal USB Installer tool.
Make a USB Kubuntu flash drive using Windows. Kubuntu is a fork of Ubuntu, offered by Canonical Ltd.
How to make a bootable KNOPPIX USB flash drive in Windows using YUMI. KNOPPIX is another popular free and Open Source Live Linux distribution.
How to create a bootable USB Debian Live flash drive from Windows by using Etcher by Balena or the DD command. The following tutorial covers the process of installing Debian to a USB drive from within Windows or Linux.
Easily Create a USB Bootable Linux Mint flash drive with persistence. Run Linux Mint from USB and also use it to Install Linux Mint from USB to a Hard Drive.
Create an Xubuntu Live Bootable USB flash drive with Windows. In the following section, I will show you a simple method to put Xubuntu on USB flash thumb drive using Windows and YUMI Multiboot USB Boot creation software.
Create a xPUD Persistent USB Flash Drive from Windows. xPUD is an intuitive minimal Linux Operating system.
USB Damn Small Linux (DSL)? This is a revisit of the Windows DSL USB installation tutorial: "Putting Damn Small Linux on a USB".
In the following tutorial, I cover how to create a Parted Magic bootable USB flash drive from within Windows.
Easily Install DBAN on USB flash drive using Windows. How to create a DBAN bootable USB from Windows using the YUMI Multiboot tool.
In the following section, I will show you how we installed Puppy Arcade to a USB Flash Drive using Windows. Puppy Arcade (created by Scott Jarvis), is a remix of Puppy Linux with a strong focus on Console Game Emulation.
Install GParted on USB flash drive using YUMI to perform the task. Easily Create a GParted Live USB from Windows.
PCLinuxOS is a clean, compact and beautiful Live Linux CD compilation created and headed by Texstar. PCLOS was originally based on Mandriva Linux and could comfortably fit on just about any flash drive.
How to Create a Bootable USB Lubuntu flash thumb drive using Windows. Lubuntu Linux is essentially Ubuntu with an LXDE desktop environment.
How To Create a USB Bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) flash drive from Windows using YUMI.
Make a USB bootable Sugar on a Stick flash drive; Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a compressed version of Fedora Linux. It was created specifically for children as an alternative to the office style desktop.
Creating a USB Bootable RUNT Linux; This walk through illustrates how to install, boot, and run RUNT Linux from a USB flash drive. RUNT is a super super tiny and very basic Linux distro.
Create a USB Recovery Is Possible (RIP) Linux bootable flash drive using YUMI from within Windows. RIP Linux is a Salckware based distribution created by Kent Robotti.
The following walk-through illustrates how to install, boot, and run Feather Linux from a USB flash drive using the Universal USB Installer. Feather is yet another very small (under 128MB) clean and simple
Run Ubuntu Server from USB; Easily create a Live USB Bootable Ubuntu Server using YUMI from within Windows. The following process covers one way to Install, Boot and Run Ubuntu Server from a USB Flash Drive.
This simple tutorial explains how to put OpenMandriva on a USB Flash Drive from within a running Windows environment by using YUMI. Upon completion, the resulting Bootable USB can be used to try out Open Mandriva Live on USB.
Install Ubuntu Rescue Remix to USB; How to Create a Ubuntu Rescue Remix Bootable USB Flash Drive from within Windows. The following tutorial covers one method of installing and running (URR) Ubuntu Rescue Remix to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC and the Universal USB Installer to do the Boot creation.
How to Install Simply MEPIS to USB by using the Universal USB Installer while running from Windows. MEPIS Linux was founded by Warren Woodford in November 2002.
Run Wolvix from a USB Flash Drive: In the following section, I will show you one way to quickly install Wolvix to a USB flash drive from Windows using YUMI. Wolvix is a Linux distribution created by Kenneth 'Wolven' Granerud.
Install CentOS to USB; The following tutorial covers the process of creating a CentOS USB flash drive using Windows and the LiveUSB Creator. Once installed, the CentOS Live USB will operate just like the Live CD/DVD, and you should be able to Install CentOS from USB to a hard drive as well.
Create a Bootable USB Ophcrack from Windows. Ophcrack is an open source Windows password recovery utility that uses rainbow tables to find passwords.
Bootable USB Ophcrack flash drive creation; Ophcrack is a free Windows Password Recovery tool that uses rainbow tables to retrieve Windows login passwords from password hashes. The tool is also made available in multiple versions (Vista/7 and XP).
How to Install SliTaz to a USB flash drive using Windows. This Tiny Linux distribution is a very fast running free operating system that can be run entirely from system memory.
How to Install SLAX on USB from Windows. In the following tutorial we show you how easy it is to create a SLAX Linux bootable USB Flash Drive from within Windows.
How to Create a USB Kiwi Flash drive: In the following tutorial, I will explain how to quickly and easily install Kiwi Linux to a USB flash drive using Windows and UUI. Kiwi Linux is a minimal remix based on Ubuntu that includes Adobe Flash along with audio and video codecs for restricted formats and support for encrypted DVDs.
The following tutorial explains how to create a bootable gOS USB flash drive using Windows and the popular Universal USB Installer. gOS is a Debian derivative based on Ubuntu.
Create a CrunchBang Linux Bootable USB drive using Windows. The following tutorial covers the process of installing CrunchBang to a USB flash drive from within Windows.
Install Eeebuntu on USB; Persistent Eeebuntu bootable Flash Drive creation tutorial. In the following tutorial, we show you how to use Windows to create a Portable Eeebuntu bootable USB Flash Drive using UUI.
