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Boot Your Windows or Linux computer from a USB Flash Drive

Posted • August 18, 2009 • Comments Off

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USB flash drives can be used for more than just a sneakernet

floppy disk sneakernetDo you remember the old days when we used floppies to transfer data from computer to computer? Now we are using USB flash drives for that purpose. Oh but that little memory stick you are carrying can be much more than that old fashioned sneakernet.
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Sneakernet

Sneakernet is a tongue-in-cheek term used to describe the transfer of electronic information, especially computer files, by physically carrying removable media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, compact discs, USB flash drives, or external hard drives from one computer to another.

Sneaker refers to the shoes of the person carrying the media. This is usually in lieu of transferring the information over a computer network. This mode of data transport is often used as an academic example to illustrate the trade-off between latency and bandwidth.

usb flash drive more than a sneekernet

Here are 10 things you can do with a USB flash drive you may have not thought of

  1. Run portable applications
    You can install portable applications on your USB flash drive.
    OpenOffice can be run as a portable application
  2. Boot an operating system
    You can boot both Windows or Linux from a USB flash drive
  3. Connect to a wireless network
    Using the Wireless Network Setup Wizard in Windows XP to save wireless network configuration information to a USB flash drive. Then you can use your drive to easily connect another computer or a WCN-compatible device, such as a router or printer, to your wireless network.
  4. Create a password reset disk
    You can use a password reset disk to reset your password and quickly get back into your user account. In Windows Vista, you can use USB flash drive rather than a floppy disk as a password reset disk.
  5. Boost performance
    Windows Vista will allow you to use a USB flash drive to speed up your system with the ReadyBoost technology.
  6. Manage it
    Windows XP will actually allow you to manage the use of your USB flash drive with the USB Flash Drive Manager.
  7. Use it as an MP3 player
    Just copy your MP3 files to your USB flash drive, plug it into your computer. Well it’s not really a player but a place for your playlists to reside.
  8. Password-protect it
    With the Rohos Mini Drive you can safeguard data on your USB flash drive.
  9. Run a Web site from it
    With Server2Go, you can easily run a Web server that supports Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl right from a USB flash drive.
  10. Lock your PC
    Predator (a freeware utility) will allow you to turn a USB flash drive into a key you can use to lock and unlock your computer.

This post was inspired by “10 cool things you can do with a USB flash drive“ by Greg Shultz.

Late,
Gary Pool


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