N.B.: Some laptops allow you to set the boot devices using a Windows application. Toshiba, for example, does this with some of their laptops. The application is either a standalone application or an ...

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.

Some owners of the Microsoft Surface Go device have been experiencing a problem that is causing frustration. You see, whenever the Surface Go computer is turned on, just seconds after the Microsoft ...

The USB flash drive has replaced the floppy disk drive as the best storage medium for transferring files, but it also has its uses as a replacement for CDs and DVDs. USB drives tend to be higher in ...

Windows install floppies and discs have gone the way of the dodo, but it still pays to keep a copy of the OS on a USB drive. Here's how to make your own.

I'm trying to find out of a USB thumbdrive (or flashdrive) can be setup to be a bootable drive. I know that a lot depends on the computer, but if the BIOS has an entry for USB Boot Device to be the ...