If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

1) Make sure your PC can boot from a flash drive. You can do this in the hardware settings (also called the CMOS or BIOS settings), but I can’t tell you exactly how.

Creating a bootable flash drive equipped with a Windows installer or Linux distro is a simple affair today, but what about creating one with DOS? Yes, DOS. The need for such a thing can hit you when ...

Creating a bootable USB drive let's you get hands-on experience with Linux without necessarily overwriting your system.

From that same File Explorer window, you can also create bootable Windows 10 installation media on a USB flash drive. In addition to the ISO file, you also need a USB flash drive at least 8 GB in ...

I tried everything: Downloaded the latest installer from apple. Ran the console command and get not a valid mount point. Downloaded the latest .dmg file, extracted installer to applications folder ...

I was also able to boot to a GRUB setup on my flash drive, but I wasn't able to get the Windows 7 installation to start with that either, mostly because I have no idea how it works.