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Google's $3 USB stick turns your old PC into a ChromeOS machine

Upgrade your old PC or Intel Mac with Google's new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit, now available on Back Market for just $3 ...
BGR

A Single USB Stick Can Save Your PC - Here's How

USB flash drives were once the best to move files between devices. However, flash drives have largely been made obsolete by the rise of cloud backups and portable SSDs that get the job done much ...
Liliputing

Install Windows XP on a netbook (USB stick method)

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...
Bleeping Computer

How to create a bootable USB Flash Recovery Drive in Windows 8

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 ...
Macworld

Hands on with Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...
Cult of Mac

Beware! OS X Lion Can Hose Your Recovery Partition! Here’s How You Can Try To Fix It

Apple’s new MacBook Air models don’t ship with OS X Lion on a USB thumb drive like they used to. That diminutive little white wedge of flash storage is gone, no where to be found inside of the box ...