Porteus is a portable distro designed and optimized to run from removable media such as a USB flash drive, SD card or even ...

USB thumb drives might not be the highest-tech form of digital storage in 2025, but I continue to carry one around with me - ...

If your PC won't boot, all is not necessarily lost. You can save data from your storage drive via one of two methods.

The best USB bootable distros make it simple and easy to run Linux using little more than a USB drive. There are several uses for shoving Linux distros inside a USB flash drive. For instance, they can ...

October security patch leaves users unable to fix their PCs Updated Microsoft has confirmed a bug that disables USB mice and ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

The Raspberry Pi is a great computer, even if it doesn’t have SATA. For those of us who have lost a few SD cards to the inevitable corruption that comes from not shutting a Pi down properly, here’s ...

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

I think that one of the most useful developments of the past couple of years has been bootable USB sticks. Not just "LiveUSB" sticks, from which you can actually run Linux, although those are ...