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A Live USB is a USB flash drive designed to act like a Live CD. An operating system is installed to it and it may be booted, but it does not install itself on the computer's hard drive(s).

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HP Pavilion laptop not booting Fedora 18 LiveUSB

My HP Pavilion g7 1075dx laptop will not boot past the SYSLINUX copyright when booting off a 8GB USB Flash drive that has Fedora 18 KDE Live CD copied to it via LiveUSB Creator. What should I try? I ...
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I can't boot from any USB device after installing Linux

Here is my current situation along with the events that followed up to it: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 to my Lenovo Ideapad S300 by booting to a USB Drive that I prepared with Unetbootin (v583). ...
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Having a hard time with live-debian on USB

I already tried everything.... I download the file from this link: http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/current/i386/usb-hdd/debian-live-6.0.6-i386-kde-desktop.img and then I dd the image to my USB ...
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Error while booting Fedora 17 from Live USB on Windows 8 HP Envy 4 1102tx

I am trying to run Fedora 17 using a Live USB on my recently bought HP Envy 4 1102tx which came with Windows 8 pre-installed. My system has a 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD. Every time I try to boot from ...
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Filesystem for Linux OS on cheap thumb-drives (liveusb)

Simple version: what filesystem (or more complex setup, perhaps) is best for use on a liveusb system? LiveUSB system with filesystem directly on the drive, not one with compressed system image a-la ...
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Live boot USB username/password doesn't work Kali Linux

I've made a live USB of Kali Linux (latest amd64, using Rufus), and it boots up fine and everything, but when I try any of the live versions (I can install it fine, I would much more like to have it ...
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Graphics Issue Installing Kali Linux from Live Boot

I'm trying to set up a dual boot windows/kali linux system. I'm able to live boot into Kali without much trouble, and have done all the necessary partitioning. Now that I've done that, I need to ...
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How to create a basic yet useful USB toolbox with a selection screen?

I'm an EasyTech at Staples, and I had an idea on how to make my job easier and make me work more efficiently on computers. My idea is to create a USB toolbox. Similar to what the company provides us. ...
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How to create bootable USB drive from DVD

I have a DVD with fedora 20 in it. My DVD drive doesn't work so I need to boot from an USB. I have copied the contents of the DVD into a USB drive and now how can I make this drive bootable?
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Boot from USB with Lenovo G710

What I wish to achieve: Have Debian linux on a USB stick and boot from that without touching my HD. Problem: Can't boot from USB. I put the Debian Live distribution on a USB stick using unetbootin ...
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Make Live UEFI BIOS Compatible?

I recently created a live Kali Linux image on my flash drive. It seems, however, a couple of my other computers come from the BIOS days... when I try to boot from my flash drive, it says “No operating ...
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Can I create a bootable Linux live USB flash drive using a Windows computer? [duplicate]

I have a rescued 2013 MacBook Air with a broken screen backlight due to a beverage spill and missing its internal SSD. I don't yet have any OS installed on it. I have access only to (32 bit) Windows ...
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Boot from live Tails SD card on Mac OSX El Capitan

Goal: Boot into Tails from an SD card on a Macbook Air running El Capitan. Specs: Macbook Air, 8Gb RAM, i5, Running OSX 10.11 "El Capitan". Solutions tried and problems with each: Follow Tails ...
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NTFS Partition on a USB Stick shows up as FAT32 and is unaccessible in Windows 8.1

Hi I have the following Problem: I installed Tails on a 16GB USB Drive (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G2) and then created an 8GB NTFS Partition (also tried FAT32) and then created an 4.6 GB encrypted ...
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Rewriting the MBR to start using the Windows 7 Partitions I have imaged on my external "My Book" USB HD

I'm trying to use bootsect to create a bootable USB HD. I keep getting the error Could not map drive partitions to the associated volume device objects: Access Denied. To give you some background on ...
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Live USB boot within an existing virtual machine

I need to resize a partition on an Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine, so I'm trying to boot up a live USB operating system inside the virtual machine, and then re-size the hard disk partition using GParted....
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LiveUSB operational issues

I'm running UNETBOOTIN on my USB stick. Ubuntu 10.04.02 is running OK, but I have two usability questions: 1) Is there a way to enlarge the persistent storage now that I've found need for more than ...
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How to resize casper-rw from live CD?

Situation: Ubuntu booted from a live USB drive (specifically made with YUMI). It has a persistent storage partition which is filled up. I'd like to increase said storage partition's size without ...
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FreeDOS Boot File - My BIOS Requires Exact File

Dell's Alienware BIOS requires that you specify an EXACT FILE before allowing you to add a bootable entry (what a pita, but that's a different matter). Anyhow, I don't know that much about the boot ...
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How to mount /run from a Linux live usb in order to chroot?

I have a system dual booted with Windows 10 and Linux on it for some reason I'm getting "You need to load the kernel first" error on the grub menu so someone has advised me to boot from a ...
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Can I use a bootable Ubuntu like a regular Ubuntu?

I need to do some cuda (gpu accelerated) computation with tools only available on linux. I could install a second OS on my machine but since I've never done it I'm sure I'll just destroy my current ...
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Triple boot Ubuntu, Kali and Tails from USB with persistent home directories

I would like to have a USB flash drive from which I can boot live systems of Ubuntu, Kali Linux and Tails OS with all of them having a persistent part, where I can save settings and files to. If it is ...
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Unable to boot Windows 10 USB created with Rufus

I've read this post I'm unable to boot my Windows 10 installer USB in UEFI mode? The Windows 10 .iso file was obtained via the Windows MediaCreationTool and selecting the ISO file option. These ...
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Invalid Partition Table when trying to boot from USB

I got a usb with "hiren's boot cd" flashed to it. Partition scheme is MBR / BIOS (or UEFI-CSM). When I boot I get the error message "Invalid Partition Table". I checked BIOS if ...
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How to get legacy bios to load uefi bootloader?

I have a liveusb, it currently works on an uefi computer. I encountered more and more computers which are uefi only and which are configured to boot only from gpt with password locked bios. But in the ...
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What is non-deterministic about remaking bootable USBs?

I have had extremely variable luck with bootable USB sticks, and over time I have become puzzled and wonder what exactly is going on. In threads such as this one and this one, it seems that I am not ...
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How to make a bootable USB and install Windows 10 using only Linux?

So I want to make a dual boot installation with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. In order to do that, I need to install Windows 10 first. The problem is that when I create an installation USB with a Windows 10 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 boot from USB bricked asus rog B350-F motherboard

Already received a refund on the motherboard however, I still do not have the slightest idea why the board failed to boot the live USB and then Bricked. Any ideas?
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Windows 10 died suddenly, can't access hard drive

I'm having a kinda bizarre problem right now. First of all, just to be specific, the problem is with a MSI GV62 laptop that came with Windows 10 preinstalled. To be completely honest, I didn't mess ...
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Add Secure Boot Key to Live Distro

I wanted to ask if it was possible to load a key into my live persistence distro in order to get past Secure Boot without disabling? I imagine the answer is probably no, but I felt like asking anyhow.
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Clone Windows XP cd to usb pen drive using dd command

How to make an exact copy of Windows XP bootable cd using dd command in linux to an usb flash drive so to be able to use the flash drive to install XP in a netbook.
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How to put FAT32 for Windows and Debian Live on a USB flash drive?

First, from time to time I need to transfer data between arbitrary computers with Windows 7 or later (and, in seldom cases, from/to Mac). I prefer to use a USB drive with a FAT32 partition for this ...
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"Boot-repair-disk-64" : boots from cd, doesn't boot from usb stick, why?

I want to use boot-repair-disk on my pc. This is a program that is previously burned in a removable media such as CD/DVD/USB stick, and then you boot on it (power off the computer, press the BIOS menu ...
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Combine serveral images into one Live-USB [duplicate]

I wanted to know if it's possible to combine at least two systems into one image : Example : I have a Debian image (.iso) and a Clonezilla image (.iso) and I want to make one image and the GRUB (...
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Is a bootable OSX USB stick live: can try, to test an app?

I want to test my OSX app on an older version of OSX (10.8). Will a 'bootable install USB stick' (official from Apple) be live? That is, like a Ubuntu stick that offers the choice of 'install' or '...
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How can I make a bootable partition to run XP.iso from USB stick in Linux?

I have a 16GB USB stick, and I am on Ubuntu 13.04 OS. I want to place XP.iso into one of the partitions and then use it to install XP from within USB stick. I searched for the web but I didn't find a ...
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Unable to find live file system error while running Ubuntu from USB

First of all there are existing Q&A on this issue on different forums (mainly on AskUbuntu). But none of those solutions worked for me hence I am asking in a new thread here in SU. I earlier had ...
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Linux Live USB Drive Created with dd Corrupt Partition Table and Reliability Issues

I am trying to create a Linux Live USB drive from an isohybrid (.iso) image. To accomplish this task, I have taken these steps in the past: Securely wipe the flash drive using the command: sudo dd bs=...
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run centos 5 from a usb stick to test a program

I have a very specific issue, I wanted to run a C - program on Cent OS 5, but i dont really use cent os for much work. I was wondering if I can have a 'live' version on a pendrive and test the C ...
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Installing Ubuntu Desktop

I have burnt Ubuntu Desktop onto a USB that is currently plugged into the Ubuntu server 12.10. I would like to know how I can run the install from the USB as no other ways work.
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Can I reinstall Linux from live USB?

I just wanna confirm, if I uninstall Linux and have a problem booting Windows XP, I'll still be able to reinstall Linux from my live USB, right? I guess it would reinstall Linux and reinstall Grub2, ...
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Trouble booting SeaGate's "SeaTools Bootable" on a Dell laptop

W11; Dell Latitude. I'm having difficulty using SeaGate's "SeaTools Bootable" software. I'm able to put it onto an USB-Drive as per the instructions. But when I try and boot it the sequence ...
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Error searching remote flathub: Can't find ref org.fedoraproject.MediaWriter

I'm trying to install Fedora Media Writer in Linux Mint 19.3. I get: Error searching remote flathub: Can't find ref org.fedoraproject.MediaWriter" so I've tried: $ flatpak remote-add --user --...
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How do I reduce the space allocated for Persistent Storage on my Ubuntu Live USB?

I used Rufus to create a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Live USB with persistence. However, I allocated all of the remaining drive space for the Persistent Storage, thinking that it could be accessed and used as ...
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Why is a bootable USB not detected during boot? (Installed: Parrot OS, USB: Ultramarine Linux)

I created a bootable USB using rufus4.3 (build 2090) for Ultramarine Linux 38. It is not being detected during startup, and I directly see the grub menu for the installed OS (Parrot 5.3). (Similar ...
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Unable to boot, bootable USB doesn’t show up

I am trying to make an old computer work again with Arch. I did install arch on it a long time ago but totally forgot what the set up was. Now I am trying to start over. When I turn it on, it shows me ...
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Linux or Windows on the go to change permissions

Can I boot into Linux or Windows on the go and change the permissions for one folder in Windows? Would those permissions be reflected on the OS once I booted as a normal user? As it is I can't paste ...
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How to unlock drive that has been locked by Windows 10 fast start up from outside windows

I have been using this windows 10 laptop that used my credentials from my former workplace to log in (it's not a managed computer though). Today those credentials expired and I'm trying to access some ...
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SD card OS work environment useable on many machines

I am looking for a way set up an Windows 10 on an SD card, that I could use with different machines. How I would like that to work: SD card and all the data is securely encrypted I plug it into a ...
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Making a bootable usb that automatically moves files to windows, from the usb stick

The goal is to make a usb stick i can boot from. Once it boots, the files I put on the usb stick, when making it, are automatically transfered to the computer in questions windows partition. I thought ...
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