Restore a USB Drive back to full capacity
How do I restore a USB flash drive back to its original state? Or how can I reset a USB drive to factory settings? After having tooled around with a USB Linux version using your dd raw image overwritten or …
Bootable USB Help and Tools
Linux Bootable USB Help, tools and additional information regarding making a Flash Drive Boot.
The Fastest USB Flash Drives are SSD
What is the Fastest USB Flash Drive? The fastest USB flash drives are SSD or Solid State. Assuming your Computer is at least USB 3.0 capable, flash drives that are Solid State (SSD) are much more pleasant to work with …
Make a Casper Persistent File from Windows
Use the Persistent File Creator to make a casper persistent file or writable persistence file for Ubuntu: Written for convenience, this is a simple tool that enables you to quickly and easily create an image for saving and restoring Ubuntu …
Fat32 Format Large USB
How to Fat32 Format 32GB or Larger USB Flash Drives. When working from within a Windows environment, you will find it is not possible to use the default Windows tools to format larger than 32GB USB hard drives or flash …
Recover Lost Space on USB Drive
Suddenly missing space on USB drive after a format? You may find that all of the storage space on your USB drive has gone missing after using tools to burn an ISO to USB. Don’t worry, you can easily recover …
Mount exFAT USB from Linux
Mount exFAT USB from Linux. How to access and use an exFAT formatted USB Flash Drive from within Linux. Most newer Linux distributions already ship with exFAT FAT64 filesystem support via the FUSE library and related utilities. However, many older …
Convert Fat32 to NTFS without losing Data
How to Convert Fat32 to NTFS without encountering data loss. It is possible to Convert from a Fat32 filesystem to NTFS without losing data or reformatting. Due to the 4GB file size limitation imposed upon Fat32 formatted partitions. It is …
Wipe USB – Permanently Delete Files
How can I Wipe a USB drive? How do I permanently delete files forever? Is it possible to erase or clear data from a USB to make deleted information unrecoverable? These are all great questions and yes can be accomplished …
Test your System for USB Boot Compatibility
USB Boot Test; The following tutorial will enable a user to check if a computer system BIOS can boot from a USB device. It can ultimately help determine if the computer can boot a Linux version from a bootable USB. …
Create MBR on a USB Flash Drive
Do you need to Create MBR (Master Boot Record) on a USB flash drive? Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted Master Boot Records. If your system suddenly refuses to boot from the flash drive, the …
Booting Linux using USB-ZIP on older systems
If you have an older computer system, your BIOS might not support USB-HDD boot. In this case, it may still be possible to boot Linux from USB if your BIOS does list USB-ZIP as a boot option. In order for …
Error: Could not find kernel image: Linux
The error Could not find kernel image: linux typically occurs on USB flash drive Linux installations if Syslinux could not find the configuration file syslinux.cfg. This configuration file is used to tell syslinux where your kernel image and initrd files …
U3 Uninstaller for USB Flash Drive
How to easily Remove the U3 smart software from your USB Flash Pen Drive. “The U3 uninstaller” application. At one time a vast majority of USB flash pen drives manufactured by SanDisk were packaged with U3 software. While this software …
