How to make a bootable USB drive If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

In addition to being speedier and letting you save data, creating a USB boot drive also allows you to take your installation of Ubuntu wherever you go.

How to Make a Bootable Thumb Drive That Runs XP. Windows XP takes up relatively little space on a hard drive and uses fewer system resources than recent versions of Windows.