Tag: usb
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How to burn an ISO to a USB stick
Here is how to write a ISO file to a USB stick so you can boot from it. Run the diskutil command to get a list of disk. Be very careful to make sure you select the correct disk. Here its easy its the only one that is 8.0GB in size. NOTE: I have removed…
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Using diskpart on Windows to partition a USB stick
Open an elevated command prompt. Run diskpart <C:> diskpart DISKPART> list disk Note the disk number that corresponds to your USB drive, it should be obvious going by size. select disk X where X is the number from above select disk X list partition select partition 0 delete partition select partition 1 delete partition create…
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Portable apps for USB Drives
The guys over at LifeHacker have a great article on how to Turn Your Spare Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives. I don’t have as many thumbs drives laying around as they do, but I did find it a very useful list of applications. Some I was already using, other were a good find. Keep…
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Vista Media Center, USB Drives and Thumbnails
While trying to setup a new system with Windows Vista to use as my media center I ran into a strange problem. It would create thumbnails and show the video length for all videos, unless they were on the my USB drive. But I found a way around it here Vista Media Center and Videos…