Several of the major distributions have had their own way of creating USB stick media for some time now. Ubuntu has their "Startup Disk Creator", which also works on derivatives like Mint, Jolicloud ...

Hey, I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick of a Windows 7 Home Premium disk using my Mac (10.7 Lion). I've followed the following procedure adapted from the Create a USB Stick on Mac OS X for ...

Ubuntu 8.10, the "Intrepid Ibex" release of the free, open-source Linux distribution, is officially out and available for download. This release doesn't bring much huge or startlingly new to Ubuntu, ...

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I'd been burning way too much time trying various ways of making a USB stick bootable, and couldn't get any of them to work, but when I tried UNetbootin it worked great the first time.

So, you've been hearing all this buzz about Ubuntu for a while now and you finally want to take it for a spin? While dual booting Ubuntu with Windows is fairly straightforward, it can seem like a ...

With the release of Windows 8 Enterprise, users finally have the opportunity to run Windows from a USB storage device -- just so long as they own the product license for the operating system. If you ...