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  2. List of tools to create bootable USB - Wikipedia

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    Multiboot" means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB flash drive to choose which system to load at boot time. Multiboot is environmental technology since it requires only a single storage device to boot multiple files.

  3. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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    The term boot comes from the idea of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps: [5] the computer contains a tiny program (bootstrap loader) which will load and run a program found on a boot device. This program may itself be a small program designed to load a larger and more capable program, i.e., the full operating system.

  4. Live USB - Wikipedia

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    Non-Macintosh systems, notably Windows and Linux, may not be typically booted in EFI mode and thus USB booting may be limited to supported hardware and software combinations that can easily be booted via EFI. [8] However, programs like Mac Linux USB Loader can alleviate the difficulties of the task of booting a Linux-live USB on a Mac.

  5. SystemRescue - Wikipedia

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    The system-rescue iso can be used to create a bootable USB device using tools such as rufus, ventoy, or the dedicated linux tool. The USB must have at least 2GB of storage and be formatted in FAT32. The USB must have at least 2GB of storage and be formatted in FAT32.

  6. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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    USB flash drives use the USB mass storage device class standard, supported natively by modern operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like systems, as well as many BIOS boot ROMs. USB drives with USB 2.0 support can store more data and transfer faster than much larger optical disc drives like CD-RW or DVD-RW drives and ...

  7. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    VMware Fusion 3 software for Mac OS X can boot Mac OS X Server virtual machines using UEFI. VMware Workstation prior to version 11 unofficially supports UEFI, but is manually enabled by editing the .vmx file. [147] VMware Workstation version 11 and above supports UEFI, independently of whether the physical host system is UEFI-based.

  8. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter. [7]: 971 Since Windows 7, however, Windows Setup creates, by default, a separate system partition that is not given an identifier and therefore is hidden. The boot partition is still given "C:" as its identifier.

  9. Ultimate Boot CD - Wikipedia

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    The Ultimate Boot CD contains freeware and open-source diagnostic tools from a variety of sources. Many of these tools were originally designed to boot from a floppy disk drive. The Ultimate Boot CD made it possible to run them on a PC without a floppy drive. [5] UBCD can also run from USB for computers without an optical drive. [5]