I would say all computer users must have a rescue disk. You don’t know when you will need it. One day or the other, you might end up in a situation where your Windows computer won’t boot! Nowadays, ...

When you’re troubleshooting your computer or installing a new operating system, you may need to “boot from a disc” or USB device (like an external hard drive or flash drive). Here’s what that ...

Bart has BBIE which creates an image of a boot sector of a CD. All 2048 bytes of it. Bart's MKBT can apparently put a boot sector onto a USB flash stick but only a floppy boot sector like 512KB or ...

Like it or not, Windows 10 will occasionally fail or falter, to the point where it won’t run and won’t boot. That’s when it’s time to bring out a rescue or recovery tool often called a ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

If you choose a bootable USB, plug it into your computer Otherwise, if you choose a disk, insert it into your drive Restart your computer While your PC is booting, you have to open the boot menu: F2, ...

When I built a portable PC diagnostic USB with my favorite tools, I set up PhoenixPE on top of Ventoy. While it works, it requires manually adding recovery tools to the WinPE setup and additional ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...