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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64

Lexar tool makes creating bootable USB flash drives easy


Turning your USB flash drive into a bootable device in Windows isn't always an easy task. A lot of the tools that used to be readily available have become annoying difficult to find. Fortunately, the nice folks at Pendrive Apps have saved a particularly handy one: Lexar's BootIt.

BootIt doesn't handle partitioning duties, so you'll need to do that first. After that, making your drive bootable is just a couple of clicks away. Enter a volume label, flip the removable bit if you're using multiple partitions, mark your active partition, and you should be good to go.

Keep in mind that this utility is designed for Lexar drives, so it may not work with any old flash drive. I had success with both my Kingston and Transcend drives, though.

[ via ShellEx City]

Filed under: Hardware, Windows

Lexar and Ceedo make any app portable

USB flash driveWe're a big fan of portable  apps here at Download Squad, so this is cool news to us: Lexar has partnered with an Israeli software company called Ceedo on a program called PowerToGo that "lets most existing Windows applications run unmodified from [Lexar] flash drives." The article from Embedded.com says that Ceedo will license the software to other device vendors but that it "will be developed as an open standard" and will be compatible "most consumer and electronic mobile devices," though it's fairly vague on that particular point. I have my share of questions about this, for example will PowerToGo be smart enough to use a machine's hard drive rather than the flash drive for temporary storage so as keep from shortening the life of the flash memory with frequent access, and will running large apps (as so many of them are these days) be quick enough to satisfy users' need for speed? Still, if they can pull it off, it could be great news for flash drive nomads.

Filed under: Hardware, Google

Lexar to bundle Google apps on USB flash drives

Google flash driveInformationWeek is reporting that Lexar and Google have made a deal that will ship Google's apps, including Picasa, Google Desktop, and Google Toolbar, on Lexar's USB flash drives. The Google apps will be included on Lexar's JumpDrive product line. The article goes on to describe Lexar's product VP Steffen Hellmold's vision to put users' an entire operating environment on USB drives, stating, "The vision at some point in the future is to have a complete operating system on the USB flash drive that would be bootable from the device," Hellmold said. "You could bring your computing environment with you -- your operating system, data and applications." Will people actually use apps bundled on flash drives, or just delete them to free up space? Is this the wave of the future, or a strategy doomed to fail?

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