Some operating systems can be a pain in the rear to install if you don’t happen to have an optical disc drive for your computer. But if you’re trying to install most Linux-based operating ...

Microsoft's Media Creation Tool offers an easy way to create a USB drive to install Windows 10.

The guide requires a thumb drive of 256 MB or larger, but other than that it should work on most USB drives. Also, in order to run Linux from your USB drive, your BIOS will have to support booting ...

You can install Windows 10 by downloading a copy of the installation files from Microsoft's website onto a USB flash drive.

For newer Macs, use a USB 3.0 drive—it makes things significantly faster. The OS X 10.10 Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder.

The PS5's storage space can be expanded with an external USB device--as long as you have the right hard drive.