USB flash drive

The name is the subject of some contention; with the phrase referring to several different devices, but the modern definition that applies to you and me is that it is an external storage medium from which the Operating System can be booted up to run the computer. Do not though that a bootable disc is not the same thing as a Live Operating System or a Windows To Go installation, both of which are meant to be used as a portable version of the operating system itself, with their preferences and settings editable and staying the same while working in between multiple computers while having minimal impact on the host computer’s internal storage....