Hiya,

I need to know how to setup up a usb flash drive so that I can either have the os load from it, or to be able to reconfigure it to my needs.

Am I going to be able to do more than just store documents and stuff on it?

I don't know much about flash drives but I would like to know as much as possible before I go out and buy one, which will be very soon.

Is it possible to treat it like a regular hard drive. Lets say I get a 10 gig flash drive, and partition it so that I use the firts partition to either run the os or a bootable iso image (running killdisk/Acronis or anything else I choose to create with a menu or just the one program), while using the second partition for storing my documents.

Currently I use Acronis on a DVD but it takes WAY tooo long(1 1/2 hours). It would be nice to have a os load in os as a fresh install in under 5 minutes.

Any experienced advice on how to use a usb flash drive to my advantage? NOT much interested in a solid state drive as I don’t know where to get one and flash drives seem to be everywhere…

Thanks