Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

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We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a common task for installing or repairing operating systems, but verifying its bootability without restarting the computer can be challenging. Here are several methods ...

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Learn about the ISO files I prefer to always keep on my cherished Ventoy drive.

Now that USB 3.0-supporting motherboards are out in the wild, you're probably going to want some kit that's able to take advantage of the added bandwidth. In terms of USB pen drives, it's California's ...

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Having just reviewed Silicon Motion's new SM2320 controller and finding it to be the best portable SSD solution to date, we're back with what is the fastest USB Pen Drive on the planet. The Kingston ...

If you want to format a write-protected USB pen drive on Windows 11/10, here is how you can do that. There are three methods to format a write-protected USB flash drive, and all of them are built into ...