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        <title><![CDATA[Excellent!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-401213-3742912]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thank you for sharing your experience. I actually did not use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool like you mentioned, and that is probably where my problem was at. Appreciated!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Nawrocki]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:54:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've used this USB Installer to create bootable USB installation media for Win7 Home, Win7 64 Home, Win8 RTM, and Win8-64 RTM, worked great everytime.  You do need to download the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from MS to make it work.  And I have used it for several Linux distros as well.  A fantastic tool for those who like to play with a different OS every day.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[earlehartshorn@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:57:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clear!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Got it now.  Thank you.Charlie]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[charleyj98]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:21:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to dumping a Linux live ISO right onto the thumb drive, the &quot;persistent&quot; storage area you can create allows you to save changes to settings and files directly within the session so you can avoid losing that information when you reboot, like desktop wallpaper or newly created bookmarks in the web browser.For another explanation of this, read LifeHacker's piece on this feature...http://lifehacker.com/5574276/universal-usb-installer-makes-a-persistent-thumb-drive-version-of-any-linux-osHope this clears that up for you!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Nawrocki]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:49:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Persistent file storage area?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;For added convenience, a persistent file storage area can be added so that, if you are in a Live USB session and want to save documents, for instance, you will be able to save directly to the flash drive without running into read-only restrictions that obviously plague burned discs.&quot;Can you elaborate on that statement?Charlie]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[charleyj98]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:55:04 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah OK]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I see what you mean now. Despite that however, it's nice to have a tool that makes this all &quot;centralized&quot;. I even discovered new distros using this tool that I never even heard of before, since they were all in a nice and organized list to choose from, versus Googling around with results that can be decidedly hit and miss.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Nawrocki]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:39:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Those commands are usually part of the download...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[anyway with the 3 I've used most they were...usually named something like &quot;install_to_usb.sh&quot; or &quot;install_to_usb.cmd&quot; for Linux and Windows, respectively.  These are included inside the downloads for Slax 6.1.2, the new Slax 7 and in Salix KDE 14.  The associated web sites also have pretty good instructions on how to install the live distro to a USB.  While this Universal USB Installer may be handy for a distro that does not include the &quot;install_to_usb&quot; commands, some of the ones that do may not behave as expected (that was my experience with Salix using UnetBootin).  Sorry for the confusion, I did not mean the command was internal to Windows.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wizard57m-cnet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:30:16 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe you are mistaken]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Universal USB Installer doesn't simply extract files from an ISO and call it a day. It actually does the extras you mention, such as writing a proper MBR and aligning partitions so that your thumb drive will indeed boot the distro. Universal USB Installer is direct competition to UnetBootin and I tend to prefer the interface and experience of the former over the latter. Also, you mention a &quot;built-in&quot; command that can make a drive bootable. As far as I'm aware, no such feature exists in a Windows environment when creating a bootable Linux thumb drive. Not to mention, dd for Windows is a third-party port of a UNIX application, which can be found on the Net.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Nawrocki]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:09:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the advantage to using this Universal USB Installer,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[as opposed to using 7Zip on a downloaded iso, extract it to your USB thumb drive, then run the built-in command to make the drive bootable?  Most of the live distros I've played with have both Linux and Windows scripts for doing this.  Works quite well too.  I also tried UnetBootin, and while it did work, it put extras in the MBR that I didn't need compared to using 7Zip.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wizard57m-cnet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:59:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[USB installation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How often do you need a bootable USB thumb drive?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:52:46 -0800</pubDate>
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