FlashBoot 2.2c Full License Key Free Download
FlashBoot is a tool to make USB disksbootable. Its primary
focus is USB Flash disks, but other types of USB devices are supported as well.
Making disk bootable involves formatting and copying operating system files to
it. Different operating systems are supported: Windows 7/Vista,Windows XP, SysLinux-based
disks, GRUB4DOS disks, Linux kernel etc. You may create blank bootable USB
flash with minimal set of system files and then manually tune it for your needs,
or convert a full-featured bootable CD-ROM or floppy disk to bootable USB Flash
keeping all functionality. FlashBoot can either format physical disk or write
an image file. So you may create customized USB disk manually or with another
tool and use FlashBoot to create image out of it and redistribute it in local
network or online.
Why do you might want to use bootable USB flash disks?
Unlike the most bootable medias, bootable USB Flash keys are
very handy: compared to floppies, they have much bigger size, speed and
reliability, compared to CD/DVD discs, they are random write access devices, so
you can backup your data to the same media where you booted from, without need
to reformat (reburn) the entire media. Again, the cost per gigabyte for them
continues to cut down, unlike CD/DVD discs.
Bootable USB flash disks are especially useful with netbooks
like ASUS Eee PC which does not have builtin CD/DVD drive or an opportunity to
install one. On the other hand, buying external CD/DVD drive for netbook is not
a truly wise choice because it will be shifted out of use just after Windows is
installed, thanks to widespread use of DVD image files and modern hard disk
capacities.
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, thus more reliable (especially when holding your backup data). If
your sysadmin at work restricts PC to not to have CD/DVD drives, you still can
boot from USB flash disk. Or if your home PC has CD/DVD drive failed, you can do
it too.
There are some mobility considerations as well. If your
laptop has a bootable CD/DVD drive, you can't work with it for a long time: boot
device is accessed quite often, and battery power is obviously not enough to
supply laser for a long time.
With bootable USB Flash disk, you don't have to obey a CD/DVD
size limit of 700 or 4700 MB. You can buy a big or a small USB disk depending
on your needs. Just after boot, on every PC, you may save your files to the
same boot device, or restore them back. There's no need to reformat (reburn) the
boot disk, you just copy files and folders, and there's no need for extra
hardware for such operations. Of course you may do some things you can't do
under your OS: copy/modify system files (they are busy when OS is running), reinstall
OS, repartition your main hard disk etc.
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