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How to prevent “evil maid” attacks? How to move /boot to a USB pendrive?
Apparently using full-disk encryption is not enough to secure a computer, because the /boot partition is not encrypted, and could be modified to include a keylogger.
I have read about different ...
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flash disk size is not normal after using suse image writer
Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to ...
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Create a bootable USB with DFT using UNetbootin
My Dell inspiron 8600 crashed and on restarting its showing the "unmountable boot volume" error. Occasionally the HDD is also making a strange clicking noise. I suppose the HDD has died. It looks like ...
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Howto create a bootable pendrive for windows manually on Linux? [duplicate]
I've been trying around but am not through yet. Where is my procedure failing? I have a 2G usb disk which I prepare the following way:
1 - Make a partition with fdisk yielding /dev/sdb1
2 - mkfs.ntfs ...
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How can I create a bootable iso image from a bootable flash drive?
I have a bootable installer image of Win7x64 on a flash drive. How can I create a bootable iso of it to use with VMware Workstation et al?
I have used Plop Boot Manager, but I'd really like to make ...
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Booting an encrypted system from a flash drive without user interaction
I have an unused desktop that I'm planning on turning to a household server running (hopefully) Arch Linux. I know that I can fully encrypt the system and have to enter a password upon each boot but I ...
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Running XMBC 12 off a stick, sans HDD
I have a laptop whose hard drive is toast, so I'm booting XBMC off a stick. It works fine, but I would like to not have to manually intervene halfway through booting up to tell it to Try Ubuntu, ...
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How to identify USB-sticks that will appear as non-removable before buying?
For a home lab project, I'm going to install Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 on a USB-stick.
The process is described in this guide (for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, but also works for 2012):
Deploying ...
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Laptop freezes upon booting Linux distributions from USB flash drive
I'm trying to boot a live distro on a VAIO YB35AL ultrabook. It doesn't have an optical drive, so I'm using a USB flash drive, and deploying the Linux ISOs to it using either unetbootin or Universal ...
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Troubleshooting old motherboard USB boot
Today I faced a situation I'm not clear how to try to get around. I will have to perform a maintenance operation on a pair of Win 98 computers weekly. In that operation I will need to input and ...
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Downloading Windows OS on usb pen drive to reinstall on Lenovo ideapad 32bit
I have the necessary software (iolo system mechanic pro)needed to wipe out my hard drive on my lenovo ideapad 32bit. I don't know much about this stuff but follow directions well. There is no cd ...
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Remove memtest from usb
A while ago I had some hardware issues with my desktop and used a USB stick to put a bootable memtest on it to do some diagnosis (at the time it was that one of the memory sticks was bad). Fast ...
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Laptop crashed while BIOS update
[...] I installed a BIOS update the other day and while the update was still in progress my Laptop crashed. Ever since, I cannot boot my device.
As in many forums described my screen also remains ...
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Installing XP through USB-flash disc
I don't know whether this could be asked here... So, Pardon me for this. Probably, this is based on My laptop and a contradiction to this question asked already here... I tried to format my ...
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Windows 7 on bootable flash
I have two quick questions, I used the Windows USB tool to put ISO on my flash drive, but it made me delete everything first. Do you know why this is?
Also, once I have Windows on there, is it okay ...
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Why does USB thumb drive screw up boot sequence?
I am looking for understanding to a boot issue. I have at times had some files and such that I save and retrieve from my thumb drive. I use the front panel as it is nice and easy to get to and I ...
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How to make an USB bootable with Windows XP?
I've tried for several days to make an USB Bootable with Windows XP, I want to install the OS in a computer that doesn't have CD.
I know there are some utilities that make this but the thing is I ...
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What is the difference between these boot order options?
I am trying to install XP on a Compaq netbook. I am getting a pendrive ready to boot the system with xp installation. Which of these three options is the correct one when choosing the boot order ...
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Can't boot flash drive on GIGABYTE motherboard
Situation
When I try to boot from my flash drive, my GIGABYTE 970A-UD3 motherboard returns this:
Loading Operating System ...
Boot error
All other motherboards I've tried support booting from that ...
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Boot from USB in HP laptop
I have HP Laptop Probook 4421s. I want to install Linux Mint 13 from USB drive. My usb is Toshiba 8 GB. I've tested in another laptop, it is working perfectly.
Bios Boot Priority is USB. When I'm ...
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Using halt from grub4dos on USB causes problems
I'm multibooting serveral different Linux distros and repair discs from a single USB using grub4dos. While testing menus and such it would be helpful to boot to the device, look at the menu, and ...
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How can I create a bootable stick with Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive
with linux distributions is possible. Can this be done with windows too?
Basically I just want to move the files from my ...
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Install XP over Ubuntu. (Flash Drive)
My girlfriend needs to install Windows XP over Ubuntu on her PC, because she need to run some software that Wine and a visual machine can't handle as well as the 'real' thing.
Problem is, it seems ...
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Can you change the name of a flash drive on the boot menu?
I have two Staples brand Flash Drives. They work fine and they boot okay, but they have the same name on the boot menu, so when I have them both in the computer, I can't tell which one is the one I ...
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How can I make Windows XP bootable from a flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
Can I run Windows XP from a USB flash drive?
I know how to make a bootable flash drive, but when I attempted to ...
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Flipping the Removable Media bit — alternatives to BootIt?
There's a utility called the Lexar BootIt utility that flips the Removable Media Bit on certain USB flash drives.
I want to flip the bit on my USB flash drive (it's supported) but really am not too ...
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Boot from flash drive then start VirtualBox
I want to put a very small OS on a flash drive with minimum necessary requirements for running VirtualBox 64 bit machines. Can I make it with Tiny Linux or something similar?
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Boot Error when booting from USB flash drive
My HDD crashed (probably due to a high re-allocated sector count), so I made a bootable USB flash drive with Ubuntu 10.04 live on it. But I get the error:
BOOT ERROR
I disconnected my HDD and tried ...
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Checking that a USB key can be made bootable? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I identify which of my usb drives can be made bootable
I don't know if this is the best place to ask hardware-related questions. If not and you know of a better ...
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Why is the “USB Device” option “not present” in my Dell Optiplex BIOS?
I want to install Fedora 15 from a USB drive, which I prepared with UNetbootin.
The official documentation says:
Insert the memory key into a USB port and restart the computer.
When F12 = Boot ...
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How to tell if USB keydrive will boot?
Some USB keydrives are detected as "USB FDD" and won't boot my laptop, while those detected as "USB HDD" will boot OK.
Does someone know if that information is given on the package before buying a ...
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unetbootin (syslinux?) — adding memtest86 to my bootable USB drive
The only way I have been able to reliably load a windows install disc onto USB is using Unetbootin and a FAT32 formatted drive. I do this because it is significantly faster to install windows this way ...
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Any way to boot an OS from usb flash drive and run directly on a monitor with USB port?
Is there any way to boot an OS from usb flash drive and run directly on a monitor with USB port?
I have an LCD monitor with USB port. Can I just load an OS on a flash drive and run it on monitor?
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How to boot from a flash drive OS using VirtualBox?
I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly).
I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or ...
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How to boot from USB on Sony Vaio PCG-TR3S?
I have an old Sony Vaio PCG-TR3S that isn't running very well any more. It crashes a lot.
I heard of Chromium OS Vanilla and decided to try running that on my old laptop by booting from a USB stick, ...
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SysRescueCD on USB flash drive
I managed to install SysRescueCD on USB flash drive so that it boots a dell laptop, but for some reason it doesn't boot a desktop PC that I have. The BIOS provides 3 different options to boot from USB ...
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Does UNetbooting need to generate a separate boot config file for each computer?
I am trying to boot Linux out of my thumb drove to reset a Windows 7 password and destroy Deep Freeze .
I used Unetbootin to extract BackTrack 5 and it boots up properly on my sys using Plop Boot ...
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How to install and boot Windows 7 on a pen drive / hard disk?
Is there a way to install a complete installation of Windows 7 on an external USB disk?
I'm thinking about copying all files from an existing Windows installation, insert it on a booted Windows 7 ...
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Boot from USB stick, with old bios (no usb-boot option)?
Are there any ways to boot from USB stick on old PCs, whose BIOS doesn't have any USB-boot option?
do you know of any workarounds ?
ps: the BIOS is up-to-date.
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How to make Windows Small Business Server 2011 bootable from an USB stick
How would I go about make Windows Small Business Server 2011 install from an USB stick by making it bootable?
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Linux program for making a bootable ISO file
I have Windows XP as an ISO file on a USB stick and want to make it bootable.
Which Linux software do you recommend for doing that?
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How can I create a pen drive that I can boot from, and then install Win98 from?
I have a HP Compaq t5515 thin client computer with a flash disk and USB port. I want to put Win98 onto it, replacing whatever is on there now (I think it is some Linux-based thing). I can find stuff ...
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I have multiple dvds to boot vista; can I somehow combine them to boot from single flash drive?
My disk drive doesn't work. I got an external one, but I can't boot from it apparently. I can boot from USB, I've noticed. So I'm wondering if I can put my 3 vista recovery discs onto a single ...
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Boot linux off hard drive and then switch to run from usb flash disk
I have an older laptop that I want to use as a simple media server on my home network. I would like to avoid using the internal hard drive except for booting (BIOS does NOT support booting from USB).
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Flash Drive refuses to be bootable
Hi I have used my Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16GB as a boot drive many times, bur recently it has refused to want to boot any OS, It just displays this blinking hyphen.
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Recover a lost partition on a USB flash drive (after using it for boot)
I used wintoflash to create a bootable device from my USB flash drive.
It had 8GB, and now I can see only 2GB.
I tried using win 7 default disk management utility but it can't merge the partitions.
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How can I create bootable DOS usb stick?
I need to use this utility to change one of the parameters of my new WD hard drive:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113&lang=en
It has truly unreadable ...
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Running Spinrite from a USB drive?
I need to use SpinRite on my notebook which has no CD-ROM.
How can I install and run SpinRite from a USB thumbdrive? Such that I could boot the notebook up with a thumbdrive and start SpinRite.
Are ...
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Install Windows XP from a pen drive containing an ISO file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Installing Windows XP through Pen Drive
I want to install Windows XP using my pen drive which has an ISO of Windows XP!
I have tried googling, but the results were ...
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Running Chromium Flow on a USB disk to boot on school computers?
So I gonna make a USB bootable drive of Hexxeh's ChromiumOS Flow. I want this to be able to boot into it on my school computer. The computers use Novel network and each student gets their own login.
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