U disk really useless? That is useless to the place!

Now that the U disk has become a gift, and the capacity is too expensive, small and tasteless, U disk is really a little use it? Xiao Bian thinks there are at least three places where U disk can still play a big role, and small and medium-sized capacity is sufficient, and the price is still cheap.

System installation disk

This is one of the biggest uses of U disk currently, I believe no one opposes it. U disk read and write speed is far less comparable to optical disks, especially now that many computers do not have optical drives at all, relying on U disk to install the operating system. And the system installation disk does not need a large-capacity U disk at all, and even a dozen dollars of U disk can be used as a system installation disk. What do not need to care about the speed of reading and writing, the total time to install the system is only tens of minutes.

Recommended U disk mirroring software: UltraISO, Rufus

The biggest feature of UltraISO is its flexibility and efficiency, and it is even possible to package ISO production boot disks on its own. Rufus needs no mention. If it is a Windows native system image, using Rufus to create a boot disk is the best choice.

System boot disk

In fact, the system boot disk and system installation disk are not too different. However, the role of the boot disk can be much more than the boot disk. For example, the PE boot disk can be used to repair the system, copy the hard disk data, etc.; temporarily use Windows To Go to operate on a third-party computer; again, for example, virtual machine boot, black group boot, etc. Big.

By the way boot mirroring software: old peach U disk production tools, Diskimage

Old Peach U disk production tool is a very simple PE disk production tool, use is very simple, PE basic functions are also sufficient to use; and Diskimage is a physical U disk as a mirror to write, rather than based on the partition drive letter, On many boot systems, only Diskimage can be used.

Multi-purpose U disk (mobile phone/computer)

Simply put, U disk has two interfaces, one is for computer USB, the other is microUSB or USB 3.1 Type-c, or even iPhone dedicated interface, this U disk is often equipped with a dedicated mobile phone APP, used to give Phone expansion. Such as the storage of film music or something. However, this type of U disk is generally more expensive, and its capacity is more than 32 GB, which is more expensive than the U disk used as a system disk.

How large is the appropriate capacity?

As a system disk or boot disk, Xiao Bian recommended 8GB to 16GB, cheap enough to use, copy the movie or something, or mobile hard disk suitable. As for multi-purpose U disk, Xiaobian recommended the best is 64GB as well, since all expansion, why should we still entangled in the difference of less than 100 yuan?

What is good for formatting?

Recommended format: FAT32, NTFS, exfat

Not recommended format: EXT4, BTFS, insufficient compatibility

U disk format problem has always been a long-standing problem, the daily use of Xiaobian, if it is a general purpose is selected in the FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS three formats. As for EXT4, BTFS format compatibility is really bad, or not elected as well.

The last small series to remind everyone, if you use U disk on someone's computer, it is best to look at the lower right corner of the taskbar, there is no icon in the figure below:

This program is called USBCopyer, simply the shameless U disk data extractor, plug in the U disk to automatically copy the contents of the computer, if the U disk is a bit private, all have been taken away.