Yes! A bootable flash drive can be the ultimate tool for recovering a downed computer, or perhaps your easiest means of upgrading a netbook's operating system without a CD-ROM drive. Because there's so many potential uses and ways to make a flash drive bootable, unfortunately we won't be able to go in depth for the purposes of this FAQ. To get you started in the right direction, however, here's a handful of scenarios and their associated walkthroughs that we feel are well-written and easy to follow.
- Boot the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) repair tools from a flash drive
- Boot Clonezilla (Norton Ghost alternative) from a flash drive
- Boot / Install Ubuntu 9.10 Linux from a flash drive
- Boot Windows XP from a flash drive
- Boot Windows 7 from a flash drive
- Install Windows 7 from a flash drive