The environment itself is represented by an ISO file that is mounted to a USB flash drive, a portable hard disk drive connected via USB, or less commonly – burnt to a blank CD or DVD. Such a device contains an OS installation which is ready to run directly from an external storage device instead of the computer’s internal hard drive and works entirely in the RAM without interfering with the configuration of the primary system. Besides data recovery, bootable drives are frequently employed for testing, diagnostics and troubleshooting, malware removal or other purposes. Creating a bootable (live) USB drive using third-party softwareĬreating a bootable (live) USB drive using third-party softwareĬertain cases of data recovery require the use of a live USB (live CD/DVD), for instance, when the original operating system isn’t functioning and there is no possibility to transfer the affected storage to another computer.
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