The transition from floppy disk to CD was a very big change in terms of external data storage. However, pen drives – flash drives – USB thumb drives have made even CD/DVDs obsolete. Though they are costly as compared to CD/DVDs , they are very efficient in terms of data storage. There are number of ways to boot computer using these USB drives. Generally, USB disks are made bootable for installing operating system to computers. One can install mac as well as Windows from this bootable USB drives. Mac, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) are the popular operating systems, for which , bootable USB disks are made. Here is a step – by – step tutorial , which shows, how to make your USB pen/ flash drive bootable.
