- Plugable USB 3.0 to VGA / DVI / HDMI Video Graphics Adapter for Multiple Monitors up to 2048x1152 / 1920x1080 (Supports Windows 10, 8.1, 7, XP).
- Google Chrome OS comes bundled with Chromebooks and Chromebox. Either you will have to purchase these devices from nearest retailers or you may run Linux Distributions of the Chrome OS on any other device including your.
- From an ISO file containing Linux (almost any Linux OS distribution), you can create a bootable USB installer disk on Microsoft Windows easily. If you.
- Multiple OS Installation. These instructions are for installing more than two operating systems on your hard drive. If you only need two operating systems (such as a Windows installation and a (K)ubuntu Linux installation.
- OS X, introduced as Mac OS X in 2001 and renamed OS X in 2012, is the latest version of Apple's operating system. Although it is officially designated as simply 'version 10' of Mac OS, it has a history largely independent of.
- The Plugable USB3-HDMI-DVI graphics adapter allows a standard HDMI or DVI monitor to be connected to a Windows PC via a USB 3.0/2.0 connection. An adapter is required for every monitor you wish to connect via USB, up to six.
- USB Sticks cannot contain multiple partitions by default on Windows. The main difference lies in the terms fixed and removable disks. Fixed discs can have multiple partitions while removable disks cannot by default.
- 6. Click on the Options button and select the radio button for GUID Partition Table and click OK. (Figure B) 7. Upon completion of the USB formatting, locate Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion.app (downloaded in step #1 to the.
How to create a bootable USB to install OS XWith the advances in technology, faster data access (SSD), and slimming hardware footprints, legacy technologies are typically the first cuts made to get these devices thinner and lighter while making them more powerful and efficient. Installing OS X has never really been a particularly difficult task, but try doing that on a Mac. Book Air or a system with a broken optical drive. Not so easy anymore is it? Even downloading the OS from the Mac App Store wouldn't do when the hard drive needs replacing or the Recovery Partition is corrupt.
Luckily, Macs have a couple of options, specifically USB booting, and since most have an SD card slot, we can use those as well. Creating a USB Installer for Apple OS X 1. Before proceeding, we'll need the following items to complete the process: 8.
GB USB Flash Drive (or SD Card) Install OS X Mountain Lion. Mac App Store) Apple computer with Mac App Store (OS X 1. User Account with Administrative privileges. Follow these steps: 1. Using a Mac with at least OS X 1. Mac App Store and download the Lion (1.
Fellow reader Dado asked us, “How can I run multiple operating systems from a single USB?” He goes on to specify some different operating systems (OSs) that he would like to run and a few of them are Windows OSs. Dado adds. Same here. My LG thunderbolt to hdmi works, but the hdmi connected display just doesn’t work. System doesn’t even recognize it, and was working before upgrading to mavericks….
Mountain Lion (1. Insert the USB drive into the Mac and launch Disk Utility.
Click on the USB drive from the left- hand menu and select the Partition tab. Click the drop- down menu, selecting 1 partition.
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the format- type from the drop- down menu. Figure A). 6. Click on the Options button and select the radio button for GUID Partition Table and click OK. (Figure B). Upon completion of the USB formatting, locate Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Applications folder, by default). Right- click the file and select Show Package Contents.
Figure C). 8. Navigate the file structure Contents | Shared Support and drag the Install. ESD. dmg file to the desktop. Figure D). 9. Go back to Disk Utility and click on the newly formatted USB Drive in the menu, then click on the Restore tab. In the Source textbox, click the Image button and select the Install. ESD. dmg file on your Desktop. For Destination, drag & drop the partition created on the USB drive onto the textbox. Figure E). 1. 1. Upon verifying that the fields are correct, click the Restore button and select Erase from the application, if prompted to do so.
Figure F). 1. 2. The process may indicate in excess of one hour, but in my experience the process takes significantly less time to complete. Figure G). Creating a USB Installer for Apple OS X 1. The process is nearly identical, with a few alternate items to complete the process: 8. GB USB Flash Drive (or SD Card) Apple OS X Install DVD* Apple computer with (OS X 1. Built- in or USB Optical Drive User account with Administrative access*Note: Install DVD must be the original DVD from Apple and not a Restore DVD that came with earlier model Apple computers & laptops. The process has not been tested with Restore DVDs and may not yield a reliable, OS X Installer USB.
Insert Apple OS X Install DVD into Optical Drive. Launch Disk Utility and click on the OS X Install DVD from the left- hand menu. Click on the Restore tab and verify that the Mac OS X Install DVD appears in the Source text box. Drag & drop the formatted USB drive partition to the Destination textbox.
If you did not format the USB drive, please follow steps #2- 6 from the 1. Figure H). Upon verifying that the fields are correct, click the Restore button. Select Erase from the confirmation box, if prompted to do so.
If asked to authenticate, enter credentials that have administrator access and click OK to proceed. Since this scenario requires reading data from the optical drive, it may perform slower than reading files that are located on the hard drive. Once completed, the USB drive will be bootable and have the full installation of OS X on there to install from scratch and update systems, as needed. Remember, this being a writable drive offers some additional perks over read- only media with a few caveats as well. Pros. Include additional resources on the drive that are required by your organization, such as Combo Updaters, applications or settings. Backup directories prior to initializing the HDD and/or reinstalling OS X.** Include multiple versions of OS X on the same drive.**Cons.
Writable means live data can be subject to accidental deletion or corruption. Read/Write speeds vary wildly depending on the make/model of the USB drive. Choose the highest read and write speeds for your particular application to minimize this bottleneck. Loss/theft of USB drives and any additional data, such as configurations, passwords, etc. Be careful!**Note: Feel free to include any additional files or folders to the existing drives, so long as the original file hierarchy is not modified in any way.
This is important as the OS X installer is looking for specific files at specific locations during installation. A missing, modified or corrupt file could result in an unreliable installation. Multiple OS X versions on the same USB/SD card (Bonus)While writing this article, I found myself in a predicament - I only had a 8. GB USB drive! But luckily, I found a 1. GB drive I'd lent my wife awhile back and decided to try to get the two versions of OS X encountered most frequently (1. GB USB drive. And it worked!
To achieve this, you'll want to have a USB/SD card capable of holding all the OSs on drive. This means about 8. GB of storage space per version of OS X.
The steps are identical to the Creating a USB Installer for Apple OS X 1. Instead of selecting "1" partition in step #4, you'll be selecting a number equal to the number of versions of OS X you'll be copying over. Ex. If housing 1.
GB x 4 versions of OS X = 3. GB total; 4 partitions will then need to be created).
The copying process (steps #9- 1. OS X being stored. Tip: By default, Disk Utility names the partition identical to the source "Mac OS X Install DVD" in my case.
While thoughtful, if working with multiple partitions, each will have the same name making them indistinguishable from the others. To resolve this, once the entire copy process has completed for all versions of OS X, the Finder will mount them all on the Desktop.
Go through each to identify which version of OS X is contained, then simply rename it to a common name, such as 1. Lion installer; 1. Mountain Lion, etc. When booting to the USB/SD card by holding the Option key during start- up, the drives will mount with their new names making them easier to identify.
How To Create Multiple USB Stick Partitions. USB Sticks cannot contain multiple partitions by default on Windows. The main difference lies in the terms fixed and removable disks. Fixed discs can have multiple partitions while removable disks cannot by default.
Usually, external hard drives are fixed disks while other USB storage media is removable instead. It is however possible to create multiple partitions on an USB stick by modifying and installing a new driver which disguises the USB stick as a USB hard drive. It is highly recommended to backup all data on the USB stick before continuing so that you can restore it should things go wrong. Users who want to create multiple partitions need a file called Hitachi Microdrive which contains the new driver that we are going to modify first and install afterwards. Unpack the package to a new directory on the hard drive. The first step is to find out the exact name of the USB device that you want to create multiple partitions on.
The information can be found in the Windows Registry. Pressing [Windows R], typing [regedit] and hitting [Enter] will load the Registry editor. The information are located in subkeys of the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Control. Set. 00. 1\Enum\USBSTOR. The name of the USB device can be found by clicking on the [+] sign in front of the key. All USB devices should be listed there. The name of the USB device can be copied by left- clicking the subkey, right- clicking afterwards and selecting Copy Key Name from the context menu.
The key needs to be modified because it contains the full path. The best way to do that is to paste the contents into a text editor and remove all chars before Disk& Ven. Now that this is done we need to copy the part that is left to the Windows Clipboard again by selecting the text and pressing CTRL- C. The driver information need to be edited in the next step before the new drivers for the USB stick are installed.
Load the file cfadisk. Replace the chars IDE\Disk. IBM- DSCM- 1. 10.
SC2. IC8. 01 in the first line with the name of the USB device that you are going to use. Remove every other line in the category so that only the line with our modified USB stick name is shown in there. The driver is now prepared and can be installed for the USB stick.
Open the Windows Control Panel, the System category and there the Hardware tab. A click on Device Manager will load the Windows Device Manager which lists the computer hardware. The USB stick should be located in the Disk Drives category. Right- click the USB stick and select Update Driver from the context menu.
The Hardware Update wizard should pop up. Select the option Install from a list or specific location in the window and click next. Check the Don't search.
I will choose the driver to install option in the next window and click next again. A click on Have Disk in the next window will open a file browser. Locate and pick the file cfadisk.
Clicking on OK will check the driver and show a warning message that the driver is not digitally signed. Press next on that screen. Ignore the warning message and continue by clicking Yes. Windows should now start the installation of the driver for the USB stick and display a message that it finished the installation.
Windows is now requesting a reboot of the system to load the updated drivers properly. The USB stick should now be recognized as a hard drive. This makes it possible to create multiple partitions on the USB stick with a software partition program. Please note that only systems with the updated drivers will recognize the additional partitions. Connected the USB stick to a computer without the modified drivers will only show the first partition of the USB stick. Summary. Article Name. How To Create Multiple USB Stick Partitions.
Description. Find out how to create multiple partitions on removable USB drives. Author. Martin Brinkmann.