USB Flash Drive Question

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aezonlights

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'sup people,

got a quick question for ya. when you creat a USB drive bootable, is it only reserve for booting or can you still have other files on it? I know that boot files doesn't take up much space so it would be a waste to have my 1gig flash drive just be a boot drive. get what I'm trying to say?

now typically when I boot from any other media other than my hard drive, I am reinstalling Windows or something. what do we use USB boot drives for? I know, stupid question, but I like to know 'cuz I never done it before.
 
So you're trying to make a bootable USB flash drive but you don't even know why? :P

OK, first question, the device will be no different from a hard drive. So yes, you can still write other stuff to it.

As for their uses, most people use them for a bootable environment to diagnose a computer. This may include a form of Linux, BartPE, or something like that...
 
I'm not really trying to make a USB boot disk. I was just wondering. I was thinking couldn't we just use the Windows CD-ROM to boot the computer instead?
 
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