Windows install floppies and discs have gone the way of the dodo, but it still pays to keep a copy of the OS on a USB drive. Here's how to make your own.

Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...

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

The good news? Microsoft has released a recovery tool to help IT workers get around the PC crashes that resulted from the CrowdStrike update, hopefully alleviating recovery times. Quick context: ...

Struggling with the dreaded "Inaccessible Boot Device" error on your NVMe drive in Windows 11? Discover proven, step-by-step ...

It's important to always keep a USB recovery media ready. It can help you troubleshoot Windows by booting it into WinPE or, worst case, reinstalling the operating system entirely. However, dedicating ...

Microsoft has begun testing a new Windows 11 tool called Quick Machine Recovery, which is designed to remotely deploy fixes for buggy drivers and configurations that prevent the operating system from ...

If you use Windows, it is always a good idea to have a Windows 11 or Windows 10 Bootable USB around. My new Windows setup crashed, and I had no way to use Advanced Recovery. So I had two options—find ...

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 ...

I've made a couple of flash drives On a couple different sticks with a couple different computers. With different boot drive making programs and different disk images. and tried to boot from USB On ...