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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? [closed]

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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Burg/Grub2 boot WinPE

How can I boot WinPE from burg/grub2 with a drive formatted by fbinst? The WinPE files are located on the unhidden part of the drive. What should the menu entry look like?
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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 ...
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How to Make USB Pen Drive Bootable? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Make a bootable pen drive for windows? Hi, I want to update BIOS of my pc and i got the bios update exe from Intel official site.i copied it in to my usb pen drive and ...