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How to Improve OS performance when used from USB flash drive?
I have a Linux Mint 14 (MATE) .ISO installed on an 8GB Kingston DTSE9 USB drive.
Booting takes about 1 or 2 minutes, which seems pretty normal for that kind of thing as far as I can tell.
When ...
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USB boot of linux mint killed my HD installation of linux mint
I have linux mint 14 MATE edition installed on a T430 lenovo thinkpad laptop. Yesterday, I wanted to test my bootable USB drive on the machine. After 1 or 2 minutes it booted fine. I created a file to ...
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How to make windows bootable USB from linux?
I've had some trobles creating this windows 7 bootable.
I've tryed using Universal USB Installer but it doesn't recognice my USB device and i've tryed:
# dmraid -E -r /dev/sdX
(Replacing X with my ...
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How can I USB boot a VM in VMWare Workstation 9?
How can I boot a VM off USB in VMWare Workstation 9? I don't see the USB I have attached in the bios boot order.
It's clearly attaching before boot, as this shows up before the VM even starts ...
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Linux USB Key - Only able to boot when formatted to FAT (Gigabyte motherboard)
I am able to a USB bootable memory stick (My motherboard is a Gigabyte EP31-DS3L see Fig 2) using either Universal USB Installer or unetbootin if I have formatted the drive before hand to FAT see Fig ...
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Formatting an internal HDD on PC with no optical drive
How can I format the internal HDD of a PC that has no optical drive, only USB? I'm guessing some sort of USB bootable option, I'm just not quite sure what? Disconnecting the HDD from the PC and ...
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Installing Windows from USB: “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk”
I used Microsoft's DVD to USB Tool in order to put the Windows 8 installation disc onto an USB stick. It worked on one computer, while on another one it didn't work.
When changing the boot order, the ...
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Windows 8 install from USB freezes
Update 2: I tried running the install from the same flash drive and the same Win8 image on my Inspiron notebook and it progresses further (I saw up to the license key screen) and much, much faster. So ...
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Missing USB Boot Option
Recently I purchased a PC with the configuration,
Processor: Intel Core I5
Motherboard: ASUS P8B75MLE
8 GB RAM etc.
And I installed Windows 7 through bootable DVD. Up to this point every thing ...
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USB Not Select-able from Boot Menu
I installed Ubuntu on a USB drive following these instructions: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive-the-easy-way/
When I go to boot menu the USB drive does ...
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Installing any linux distro on new netbook hangs midway
I have just bought a new netbook, Lenovo S110 with a starter Window 7, 32 bit Operating system. I wanted to wipe away Windows and go with Debian or Ubuntu.
I have successfully made my USB drive ...
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Make UEFI, GPT, Bootloader, SSD, USB, Linux and Windows work together
I like to use the latest hardware and the latest software; thus I have a Laptop (Lenovo X220) with
UEFI instead of BIOS
an SSD instead of an HDD
GPT partitioning scheme instead of MBR
USB to boot ...
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Run Windows from USB Disk
I have an internal hard drive with Windows 7. Usually, it's in my desktop computer, but I now want to run it from my laptop, as well. (The laptop is a dual boot Windows 7, Ubuntu machine.) When I ...
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?
Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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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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Test usb booting capabilities with qemu under linux
I am running Ubuntu Oneiric and just installed quemu to test if my usb device is bootable, because for some reasons, on my laptop the usb boots but on my desktop pc it shows Boot Erro
So, does ...
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Linux on USB with / mounted on Pendrive?
I'm wondering how to install Linux Ubuntu/Mint on Pendrive so that / (root fs) is mounted
directly on USB in RW mode ?
I think that most installers simply copy the installation CD onto pendrive. And ...
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Can I use a USB drive of Ubuntu created on Mac with a PC?
I am trying to create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu with my iMac as a holiday present for my brother, who is on a PC.
Will my bootable USB work on his computer if I create it on my Mac?
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USB boot and newer BIOS and firmware
Is it safe to say that most newer (x64 2010+) desktop BIOS from major manufacturers can be configured for USB boot?
I'd like to be able to boot from USB for GParted 10, Windows 7 pro, and Ghost 2003+ ...
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How to copy local files from NTFS drives after booting to a USB key or Linux CD
Now that I have my bootable USB key set up with all kinds of tools via Yumi (see this question), how do I copy off local files? I'm am a Linux novice, trying to rescue files from a Windows computer. ...
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Configure bootloader for usb bootable Linux?
I've installed CentOS 5.5 64-bit on an external WD 500GB HDD. I went through the installation setup, and formatted the external HDD normally. (100M /boot, 250GB /, 248GB /tmp , 2.8GB swap). I also ...
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what can i do from grub rescue?
i had my hard drive dual booting and was trying to delete one partition in gparted but i think it had grub on it.
now i cant boot anything.
i can get into the BIOS but i cant boot from USB, the screen ...
