My Digital Guide

Pen drive are now becoming an important part of life ,Businessman , Teachers ,Students every one Love to use Pen drive , Pen Drive not only reduce yours work but also help in carrying data from place to another . Below are some more points describing about the uses of Pendrive .

1. Transferring files from one PC to another. This will of course be limited to the size of the pen drive, but with sizes higher than 16 GB now available. This is the first use anyone will put a pen drive into.
2. As a small backup solution. You can install Windows XP or vista , to a USB pen drive. So if for any reason you can’t boot to Windows, you can still boot to an installation of Windows, plug in an external hard drive and take off any information from the hard drive before formatting.
3. As temporary RAM in Vista. In Windows Vista, ready boost allows you to allocate a pen drive as RAM. Microsoft has introduced a new technology called ReadyBoost. With the help of this technology one can use any Flash Drive, SD Cards, CF Cards as the third memory option for the computer.
4. Portable applications. You can carry many portable applications on your Pen drive. eg: Mozilla ThunderBird
5. Booting to Linux Installing a Linux distro to a pen drive will allow for the use of the hard drive and all the files on it. Sure you could use a live CD, but then you would lose the ability to use that optical drive within the Linux environment. This is particularly useful for those running on laptops or PCs with only one optical drive.
6. For Carrying around a pack of Antivirus tools. You never know when you need them!