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Hey Everybody!

I simply wrote this tutorial on how to dual boot your computer off of a USB or a external HDD. It's very simple and can be very fun too do
This edition uses NO Partitioning so dont worry about data loss! :dumb:

1) Firstly your going to wanna delete everything off your USB simply by going to Start>Computer>(Your USB) Than delete everything off of it. Depending on what your OS you wanna dual boot from is I recommend anything from 1Gb-5Gb.



2) Alright, so now you must find your OS that you wanna find, I simply used Ubuntu 10.10 for the dual boot. If you also wanted to use Ubuntu 10.10 than here is the download You must login or register to view this content.



3) After you have chosen what Operating System that you wanted and its downloaded the File should be an ISO file.



4) Okay easy so far right? Now after you have downloaded your desired Operating System you now are going to want to put the file onto your USB.



5) Using this program You must login or register to view this content. it installs the ISO onto your USB and extracts the nescasry files from the ISO into individual files.



Example: Here is the ISO file before.
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Here is the ISO file after using the universal USB installer.
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6) Now simply in the program select what Operating system you downloaded, than select what drive your USB is ( Mine was )
Than install it to the USB.



7) As soon as your done that, your going to want to shutdown your Computer and go into the Bios Menu. ( Mine was pressing F2 when I booted my netbook.)



8 ) Simply navigate over too the Boot order and it should be somthing like this.

    IDE0 WDC

IDE1

USBFDD

Network

USB HDD

USB CD ROM

Your going to want to change it too this

    USB CD ROM

USB HDD

USBFDD 

(Than the rest)

9) With your USB plugged in boot the Computer and you should be good to go. Oh and if you wanna go back the the other Operating system simply shutdown, and go back into the BIOS and change the boot order to what it was before




If you are having any problems what so ever I'm here to help you :fa: The guide is very simple, and very fun too boot into different operating systems :fyea:

This is what the Ubuntu 10.10 looked like when I first used it. The Install Ubuntu option installs it to the HDD, so im not sure if it automatically partitions or just overwrites the older OS



Oh here is a scan for the USB Linux installer.exe

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dude thats awesome...nice find, thanks for the info

^ Thanks bro :wub:

First of all, great thread. I was just wondering, does this Ubuntu keep all of the files you store, for the next time you boot from the USB, or is it just a "tester". Like does it actually install Ubuntu onto the USB drive and if it doesn't would you need to partition the USB drive, then install it on the new partition? It's just, I have a 32GB lying about I really wanna out Ubuntu on. :p

Thanks very much bro :fyea:
Well you see booting it off your USB or external drive, you would need the drive clean first. If your 32Gb has nothing on it than easily follow my tutorial. If you DO have other important stuff on it than you can create a partition on it otherwise It wont function correctly

Ah okay, thanks buddy. Gonna partition my old 250GB external portable hard drive, then have one partition NTFS (for windows) and one the linux format (ext3 I think).

But yeah, thanks for your awesome tutorial and all your help.

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