For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

Windows 8 users will no longer need a licensed product key for upgrading to the latest iteration of Windows 8.1, as Microsoft has recently rolled out the Windows Media Creation Tool, which allows ...

For years all I have had to do is... dd if=WinX.iso of=/dev/sdY Done. No fancy applications, no special switches. Just straight dd gets it done. Now I've got 3 motherboards that will not boot with an ...

Avid Windows 7 or Windows 8-8.1 users without access to optical drives can still install fresh copy of Windows quite easily, using a bootable USB flash drive that can be created instantly with ...

So you want to take Windows 8 for a spin on a computer that doesn’t have a disc drive? Not a problem. While Microsoft has only released a disc image of Windows 8 Developer Preview, you can use the ...

Rufus stands for Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source. It is a tiny and lightweight utility for Windows PC that helps you easily format and create bootable USB drives, such as USB keys, memory ...

If you had upgraded Windows 8 using the Windows8-Setup.exe executable, rather than through a DVD, it can be difficult to troubleshoot your computer in the event that it is not starting properly or you ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview is called that for a reason—there isn’t a lot on the surface that looks very compelling about the new operating system to business users. The revelation that ...

Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup repair ...

Booting up your PC using USB drives is useful. It allows you to reinstall Windows, perform easy system restores and more. But what if bootable USB is not detected in Windows 11/10? This can be ...