FlashBoot 2.0f

FlashBoot 2.0f | 29.24 Mb

FlashBoot is a tool to makeUSB disks bootable. Its primary focus is USB Flash disks, butother types of USB devices are supported as well. Making disk bootableinvolvesformatting and copying operatingsystem files to it. Different operating systems are supported:Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, SysLinux-based disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kerneletc. You may create blank bootable USB flash with minimal set of system files and thenmanually tune it for your needs, or convert a full-featured bootable CD-ROM orfloppy disk to bootable USB Flash keeping all functionality. FlashBoot caneither format physical disk or write an image file. So you may createcustomized USB disk manually or with another tool and use FlashBoot to createimage out of it and redistribute it in local network oronline.

Why do you might want to use bootable USB flashdisks?

Unlike the most bootable medias,bootable USB Flash keys are very handy: compared to floppies, they have muchbigger size, speed and reliability, compared to CD/DVD discs, they are randomwrite access devices, so you can backup your data to the same media where youbooted from, without need to reformat (reburn) the entire media. Again, thecost per gigabyte for them continues to cut down, unlike CD/DVD discs.

Bootable USB flash disks are especially useful with netbooks likeASUS Eee PC which does not have builtin CD/DVD drive or an opportunity toinstall one. On the other hand, buying external CD/DVD drive for netbook is nota truly wise choice because it will be shifted out of use just after Windows isinstalled, thanks to widespread use of DVD image files and modern hard diskcapacities.

Bootable USB flash disks are useful as boot devices on the"big" desktop PCs too,unlike CD/DVD discs they do not have sensible surface you could scratch, thusmore reliable (especially when holding your backup data). If your sysadmin atwork restricts PC to not to have CD/DVD drives, you still can boot from USBflash disk. Or if your home PC has CD/DVD drive failed, you can do it too.

There are some mobility considerations as well. Ifyour laptop has a bootable CD/DVDdrive, you can't work with it for a long time: boot device is accessed quiteoften, and battery power is obviously not enough to supply laser for a longtime.

With bootable USB Flash disk, you don't have toobey a CD/DVD size limit of 700 or 4700 MB. You can buy a big or a small USBdisk depending on your needs. Just after boot, on every PC, you may save yourfiles to the same boot device, or restore them back. There's no need toreformat (reburn) the boot disk, you just copy files and folders, and there'sno need for extra hardware for such operations. Of course you may do somethings you can't do under your OS: copy/modify system files (they are busy whenOS is running), reinstall OS, repartition your main hard disk etc.

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