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Posted on September 27th, 2021 at 02:42 Ben Myers Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

HARDWARE

By Ben Myers

In my first “Breaking and entering” article, you saw what to do step-by-step to get an unbootable system into legacy boot mode and how to prepare a UEFI USB stick with Linux Mint.

Now, boot your system with that Linux USB stick.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.37.0 (2021-09-27).

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Breaking and entering with Linux

Posted on August 30th, 2021 at 02:41 Ben Myers Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

HARDWARE

By Ben Myers

Use Linux on a USB stick to diagnose a Windows system.

My working premise here is that your Windows system will not boot, not even in safe or any other degraded mode. You have no idea what’s going on, and it is premature, time-consuming, and sometimes futile to rip a computer open to see what is inside. The solution is to boot another operating system from a USB stick and use it to explore and diagnose problems.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.33.0 (2021-08-30).

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