Questions tagged [liveusb]
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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I'm running a Windows 10 desktop and would like to be able to create a bootable thumbdrive so that I can move files on or off of it
I began periodically imaging my system partition in the late 90's when Windows (98) was less reliable. With every system crash, I'd have to spend an entire afternoon reformatting the drive, re-...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows - not detecting SSD
I had Windows 11 on my laptop until it decided to have BSOD every 5 minutes. I tried to check if the OS was a problem and then I booted into a live USB and everything went smoothly.
However, when I ...
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MokList error: Volume full; cannot boot Asus laptop
I have an old ASUS laptop. The SDD is fully clean, empty. The laptop used to have Windows on it.
Now I want to install only Ubuntu.
The error I get is this and I cannot boot at all, nothing:
Reading ...
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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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BIOS works, but laptop is not booting. Just goes to a Lenovo logo or a blank screen on a Lenovo Ideapad 3 14ALC6 laptop
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 3 14ALC6 laptop that I bought listed with a defective SSD. When I got it, put in a new, working confirmed SSD, it still didn't work. After troubleshooting, here's where I'm at:
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Install Windows XP to an USB [duplicate]
Not like "Windows Setup" in that USB, I meant the live OS as I need a live recovery environment to fix my PC when it leads to trouble
https://archive.org/details/super-nano-xp
Here's the ...
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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).
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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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VM, dual book + VM, or multiple machines?
I'm trying to configure my long term setup and have a menu of many devices, although most of them are older and have an issue or two.
Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 SFF
w/ Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3....
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Copied persistent live linux USB Stick does not work
I created with RUFUS tool on windows a persistent live linux usb stick with ubuntu 11.
Then I deleted some not necessary apps and added some new ones.
Then I did on a linux system(Debian) a diskdump ...
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Kali Linux Live USB space
I want to know, if i will make live kali persistence usb and put it into my laptop will it use hard drive memory? Because my 500 gb space is emtpy and want to make kali live usb to use that free ...
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Can I export bootable USB disks to ISO images?
I have several bootable USB flash drives lying around - some of them have Linux distros on them and others are Windows recovery drives. The thing is that the number of flash drives for these purposes ...
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Can a malware infect my main drive when I'm using a different OS on a external drive?
I've installed Linux Mint to an external drive to visit sites I find suspicious. My main drive has Windows 11 installed on it with a Microsoft account and a password. So my question is:
Can a malware ...
