Why is it possible to burn an ISO file to a CD or DVD but not to a USB drive? Well, actually you can! I recently found software that will mount the ISO and copy the files to the USB drive and also makes the USB drive bootable. Now instead of having to burn CDs you’ll never use again you can just go and get a 1GB flash drive and you can use it again and again without degrading the drive unlike a rewritable CD or DVD. The software is called unetbootin. The software comes pre-configured to automatically find about 50 different bootable types of software including operating systems, live anti virus CDs, hard drive management, etc… It does require internet access to download the software first and then it burns to the flash drive. The only con about the software is that it takes a long time compared to burning a CD or DVD.

One thing that many people worry about are their personal files just vanishing one day if their hard drive bites the dust. Most people go out and purchase a flash drive or an external hard drive and back up all their files. The only problem is the fact that it is an expense. When money gets tight, free is the best price.

I recently came across a website offering 2GB of free space to back my files up. This was fantastic because I love free technology stuff, but also because this ensures that even if the remote hard drive I am backing my files up to dies their technology will still be able to recover all my files. The downside to backing up your files to an external drive, or flash drive, is that if your main HD and your external HD could both go bad, and lose your flash drive, then you would be without any files. Another great thing about this website is that you can access your files from any computer that has an internet connection.

The website is http://www.idrive.com/. When you sign up you automatically get 2GB for free. However, you could get up to 10GB if you put in your email info and SPAM the people in your friends list. If you don’t feel comfortable with that go create a new email address that has no contacts and use that. Easy peasy!