Using Bootable USB Drives in Windows

Due to complex circumstances at home, I have a bootable USB drive of Kubuntu. Unfortunately, my control freak of a father has placed a BIOS password, so I cannot boot the computer into anything of my discretion, as only my dad knows the password. When I use other computers, I use my USB drive. It has all my files and everything else.

So, Wiibrew, my question to you is this:
How can I run a bootable drive through Windows?

you could try a virtual desktop like virtual box.

Yeah, but do you know if those can boot from a USB drive?

I think so I've done it from a CD before but that is completely different.

If you are going to use OS emulation use VMware.

But Virtual Box is free

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But Virtual Box is free

Yes, I use Virtual Box on my Linux Mint. I think you might need to make the contents of your USB flash drive a .vdi virtual hard drive (?)

You can't boot a USB drive once you are in Windows.

You could clear the BIOS password, however. This might help: [www.computerhope.com].

!BIOS should be usable with Windows 95, 98, or Me, if you are using them.

Also, are you sure that your machine will only boot from a hard drive? It might boot from a CD, too. If that is possible, you can get FreeDOS, boot that, and run !BIOS from a floppy or USB stick.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2009 03:49PM by WikiFSX.

It sounds like the issue is that the USB drive is formatted to something other than NTFS or a FAT derivative, most likely ext3. I've only played with Linux a little so my knowledge is cloudy, but perhaps you can get Windows to see the non-windows drive with a third party driver?