How Do You Boot From A USB Drive?
If you have an extra USB drive, it’s a good idea to consider making that drive a boot drive. Having a bootable USB thumb drive can be really handy for computers that don’t have a CD drive, such as netbooks for some laptops. It’s also typically a faster way to install an operating system than from a CD. Most importantly, having a bootable USB drive is a very useful when something goes wrong with your computer. Download Unetbootin, a free program for Windows and Linux capable of turning any thumb drive into a boot CD. The link is in the Resources section of this article. Decide what you want your flash drive to boot. Free operating systems, such as Ubuntu Linux, are going to be the easiest to set up, because they are free to download and install. In fact, Unetbootin can download these for you automatically. Setting up a Windows boot disc is a little more difficult, because Windows is proprietary and not intended to be used this way. It’s still possible to make the install disk boot from
