N.B.: Some laptops allow you to set the boot devices using a Windows application. Toshiba, for example, does this with some of their laptops. The application is either a standalone application or an ...

Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

I am trying to (re-) install Windows 10 Preview on my HP Stream 11 laptop, and somehow I am unable to make the machine boot from USB. I have created the Win10 USB stick using both the Microsoft ...

While it's lightweight and has all the bells and whistles of the other models, the MacBook Air does have limitations. One is that its drive space is at a premium. Plus, it is a computer, and prone to ...

While it works, be cautious about each step unless you get used to it. Not that it will crash the computer, but setting up correct BIOS settings is essential. The steps involved are: Download the ...

I was a Rufus advocate for creating bootable USB drives, but I have shifted my stance to Ventoy. It's an exceptional utility that lets you keep multiple ISO image files on a single USB drive and is ...

With the release of Windows 8 Enterprise, users finally have the opportunity to run Windows from a USB storage device -- just so long as they own the product license for the operating system. If you ...

John O’Brien’s PC can’t boot from a USB drive. Every PC needs a way to boot into something other than the installed operating system. Removable boot media allows you to repair your Windows ...