In other words, there is nothing illegal or inappropriate about this guidance. NOTE: Before someone raises the flag in these forums about this guidance, this is exactly what Raspberry Pi is all about.Īs a computer repair technician I can attest that this is also how you're able to repair corrupted hard drives when you can't boot from them anymore, retrieve lost passwords, fix hard drive partitions, inspect for viruses and malware, perform forensic analysis, do backups and transfer data to other external devices, analyze and view files without executing malicious code directly in the victimized computer, testing operating systems for behaviors on specific hardware, and much more when it breaks down to networking! This is also possible with cell phones, as you can adual-boot in an unlocked and rooted Android device, for example, and be able to use the cellphone as a flahable USB device with other operating systems in it. I've been doing this for years, and even installing a bootable version of a linux distribution in very old 1.2GB Apple MP3 player sticks people used to throw away those because they were succeeded by better MP3 players back in the early year 2000. Pretty much, this is true with different operating systems.

Some executable programs (.exe) that are very small in size can run from any folder (or USB device) without installation required.Īdobe Acrobat Reader is not that kind program BUT you can, however, install Windows 10 to a flash USB device making the USB bootable with the MS Windows 10 operating system. No you are not able to run an application to run straight of a flash USB device because it depends on an operating system to interfacte with it. ++ A caveat to Try67 correct answer and Nancy O'shea spot-on observation

Acrobat reader portable