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.

It used to be typical for every variation of Raspberry Pi to require booting from an SD or microSD card. It wasn't until the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B that the firmware received an update for booting ...

Normally, if you are unable to boot into Windows and cannot access your files, you can create a bootable drive and use the media to boot and repair your OS installation. Perhaps, not widely known by ...

Just insert it, enter the UEFI (BIOS) to change the boot device to the USB drive, and follow the installer's prompts. Best of all, this solution is permanently yours—it'll keep working so long as ...

You can’t boot OS X from a USB hard drive. That might be old news to the more tech savvy among you. But it’s something that a lot of people don’t seem to know. In fact, only one person I ...

The process of downloading and installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 is pretty straightforward. But did you know that you also can run Windows right from a USB flash drive? Now it does sound like a ...