3 USB things every Windows user must do right now!
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- Save yourself a lot of money, headaches, and time when you do these 3 things with your USB flash drives!
Tools/ Utilities mentioned in the video:
ValiDrive: www.grc.com/validrive.htm
Acronis: geni.us/AcronisBackup
Microsoft Media Creation: www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...
Norton Recovery: support.norton.com/sp/static/...
Rufus: rufus.ie/en/
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Yes please Liron, a "Retro gaming USB console" video would be greatly appreciated!
its fun - will do
Good idea
@@LironSegev Yes!!
@@incandescentwithrage I don't need to be told how to do it, I just enjoy Liron's videos. Also, nobody asked you.
@@humanevolutionmanifesto Well you know how it is. No one goes to youtube to find out how to do stuff (eyeroll). Ignore them.
another simple task to do is to divide the Drive into Drive C and D and make sure to put all your files to drive D so when reinstallation is needed, only Drive C will be affected where Windows is installed :)
Yep! First thing I do is partition the drive into 2 or three partitions. I even port my important folders like documents and pictures etc to the D drive so its easy to reinstall windows now and then when it gets too slow.
Done watching. As an IT myself, this is overall a BIG THUMBS UP..
woooohoooo!! Thank you very much! I am a technician for +30Years (brazil) and you are teaching me a lot of stuff in your videos. I was trying to test these fake usb drives, by copying a bunch of files on it. But you teach me the ValiDrive. Thank you! You are a true knowledegefull strong tech professional !! Greetings from Brazil !
Excited that you are here! Brazil is on my must-visit list👍
Before I went into business, I used to keep up on everything about computers. I don't have that time anymore. That is why I subscribe, like, and follow Liron. Liron, can you show us how to do a backup of an android tablet?
7:17 - If you have a Windows 10 PC, Windows 11 PC and maybe a Windows 10 PC with a different ISO, you don't need three different sticks. If you save as an ISO, you can put on a USB stick with VenToy, and that'll allow you to boot any ISO you want. Very powerful, and Ventoy is free. Not sure if you've done a video on this in the past...
9:59 - Same here too .. shove those ISOs on one stick - you don't need a stick for each ISO.
Yes, you can also put several Linux distributions on it! they all will work.
I do not use anti-virus software on Windows anymore - they do not detect all the malware. Windows Defender does a betetr job - not perfect but it works. Thanks for this Liron. Helpful vodeo.
Thank you Liron! I am going to order USB's today. Windows store repair messed up my computers. I used Macrium Reflect after I bought my new Laptop last year. I will feel better having a current backup and will follow your clear instructions. I was just researching cloud options so this was timely for me. Keep up the great work!!
More fantastic information to save us from ourselves and it didn't cost me $99.99. Thanks for keeping us safe and secure.
you're welcome. Thats the mission - share it so everyone, especially the non-technical people, can just do simple stuff to help themselves. So hopefully you shared it too :)
Having a bunch of tools in the USB drives with proper labels is going to be operationally far more flexible and cheaper in the long run.
But what amazes me is that even though Linux can bring 15 years old hardware back to life and has tons of distros, desktop environments and package managers to choose from, it is remarkably stable and seldom runs into problems. Even if it does, thanks to its free and open-source nature, locating the source of problem and working on solution is very easy
Hello Liron,
Thank you, as always, and yes, I would like to request some dos-box videos, yes, there are many but you break it down so even I can understand.
Cheers mate!
Thanks, I have followed your great advice, I'm happy to see that your channel has over a million subscriber!
As a tech myself I don’t understand how they give a price without looking at the computer. Not every time the computer don’t load into windows means you have to reinstall windows. Sometimes you can repair some stuff through the recovery menu. The real answer to that is I need to look at the computer diagnose it and give you a cost based on what the problem is.
100% - I get that they need to charge for time - but $100 for something like this is ridiculous. If they had to diagnose issues, spend hours redoing the entire machine, I get it. But this is just taking advantage.
Aren't those "if" prices? $100 for bench setup, eval, phone call and paperwork isn't too bad for that experience.
One tip is use ventoy to setup a universal bootable usb and place all your recovery iso tools even different os installers in iso format and have them multiboot upon ventoy's bootup
As always, you've provided great and current information. I will check your links.
Always great, useful content Liron.
I got out of the computer repair business after running a shop for 15 years. Other techs priced us right out of business among other problems. This is why most people would simply google the issue and attempt to fix it themselves or just toss the computer and buy a new one. No one is gonna pay $200+ to fix their $300-500 PC
I feel you, brother. Same same. and cannot justify charging per hour. Prices messing around for hours on end. and then I see the plumber charging five times as much per hour. Playing around in the dirt with water pipes and people happily pay him. in the wrong business.
I just found your channel now and I'm addicted to your videos! I'm learning so much!
Appreciate you being here 🔥
Very practical, thank you.
Liron, Excellent video! Something every computer person should know!😊
Thank you Liron what a great helper for me
Great video, Ive known this since I was 14 years old and am 27 now. Really happy people are learning this
Hi Liron! Was just introduced to your YT channel. Very well done and super interesting. Love it! Thanks so much.
Welcome!
Great info! Thanks! 🤩
Another great video Liron! Thanks!
Thanks again!
Watching from the Philippines. Thanks Liron. I need to do this now.
Amazing, found your videos by accident and what a find!!! THANYOU!
Appreciate you being here 🔥
That was very helpful mate thank you. Cheers from Aussie 👍.
No problem 👍
Best video so far, ever! - Thank you
appreciate you
Super content, thank you for this! You're a gem of a creator Liron. Hope you're having an awesome day. 💙
I appreciate that!
❤ LOVE YOU!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEOS!!!
FANTASTIC VIDEO !!! THANK YOU !!!
thanks for watching!
I see a Liron video I click to watch it. As always, great information. I have learned over the years to safeguard my data and Windows. I have an external SSD with Windows ISO's ready to go, as well as Linux distros, and other rescue type software. I also ensure to back up my data to multiple HDs. The only downside is it all locally backed up, nothing online, or off-site, but that's an acceptable risk to me.
Nice 👍👍👍
Here is what I do, since the SSD came out, every time I buy a new computer I used to replace the original HD with an SSD drive. Copy the entire drive, replace and save the original one.
Now, most computers come with an SSD since the price went down.
I have a Dell laptop, to replace a hard drive I don't even have to open the computer, it has a tray to replace the hard drive.
If my computer fails, I have a new OS ready to use in less than one minute.
Great video I always have another hard drive with another copy of my windows so any thing go wrong I boot into the other windows and gives you time to check out what went wrong on the other harddrive
Solid information.
I like how the 2nd tech company's rep acknowledged, yep, it's $100 for the service.
Serious question: In my computer system admin days on the OpenVMS systems, making a copy of a disk was called an "image backup" and yes, it copied every single bit to the new disk (and wiped out whatever was on the target). So, am I correct in understanding that calling the process 'cloning a disk' is the same thing? Yes, I understand that the word means that, but I am just double-checking that the computer business is using the word to mean the same thing.
Thanks for the good advice.
Difference might be the backup can be incrementally added to, while clone is the whole lot, again.
An excellent video. My comment is that some of those procedures delete everything on the USB drive while some don’t. So, maybe clarify that you need a separate drive for each, as opposed to putting them all on ONE USB drive (and then maybe have a section where you call in to inquire about the cost of flash drives, for comparison).
I like Macrium Reflect and Ventoy better. The Validrive tip is much appreciated.🙂
Awesome video. I use Medicat USB and it's awesome! Has a lot of tools for getting anything done. I even have some OEM ISOs in there in case I need to install something. Always have it with me on my USB 😊
Love Medicat USB
@@LironSegev plus there some cool Linux operating system I would recommend rescuezilla
Something to note for windows users, is that if you are going to go the Rufus route for installing to your USB, you would be perhaps wise to use the NTFS format instead of Fat. The reason having to do with some of how Windows handles things with UEFI if I remember correctly. Both will work, but technically GPT + NTFS is technically the better route to install Windows fresh.
I am not sure if the media helper does this as well. I usually just use Rufus.
Thanks a lot☺️☺️☺️.
100 claps for 100 episodes . congratulations to Anil ji and Ankit for everything you and your team has done to brodacast episodes from all difficult circumstances and locations. the knowlege you have imparted to IP is remarkable. we look forward to your book
Thank you very much bc now I can avoid tech scams
No worries
Thanks man!
One thing you did not mention. I just recently purchased 10x64 gig thumb drives from Amazon and had to change the file allocation table format. I thought it was lame too. I couldn't save large video files until I made the format something newer like NTFS. Yah, I thought I'd been swindled.
Good stuff! GOOD STUFF! I like the cloud solution myself because external hard drives and thumb drives are notoriously unreliable. No matter which method one chooses, you need to have backups in place BEFORE disaster strikes. I’m a retired IT puke for a major company, and even there it was nearly impossible to get people to back up their files on the network. Many of them had very important data too.
exactly
Would love to see a video about turning computer into a retro gaming PC.
its actually a lot of fun. Noted!
I'm busy doing that to an old pc I have that became my media centre, now it's going to be my retro gaming machine. Just trying to save the funds to build the arcade console.
Definitely yes, if you could, make Linux setup on a usb flash drive which when plugged in would run Linux because I am trying to learn Linux without losing Microsoft Windows.
got it!
@@LironSegev much appreciated, thanks
I'd really love this. Don't wanna partition my drive and sideload Linux. I'd really prefer if it can be installed as a plug and play and run offline.
You are useful, I like that about you. Thanks.
haha thanks
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I have a single USB stick with all these programs on it. Thanks to Ventoy, you can create your own toolbox and simply copy the downloaded ISO directly onto the stick without having to mess around with Rufus, the "media creation tool" or anything else. I have ISOs for Win11, Win10, Ubuntu, WindowsPE, HBCD, memtest86, various virus scanners and a few programs on my stick that I've probably forgotten and they are all on the same stick and are bootable 😉
Just keep you a free clean version of Windows on many flash drives in your desk. Easy. Even if you need to swap your Boot device you can with command prompt, and diskpart command. Now you have to know what drive number of the Boot drive of choice. Typically drive 0 is your Sata drive, and drive 1 is your NVMe SSD drive, this drive 1 is my Boot drive. The M.2 NVMe SSD is located on your motherboard and does not bottleneck from pesky Sata cables. I also have a SSD as a Sata drive or D drive, and my NVMe is my C drive. This will tremendously reduce load times, and increase performance efficiency.
Thank you
$100 isn't expensive for a shop to do those things for you. BUT, having the tools and a very little know-how to do it yourself is always better.
3:17 It does NOT say it will delete your personal information. Is DOES say it does NOT BACK UP your personal information. You should be doing DATA backups as a regular practice to external storage.
question: have you ever done a recovery with this method?
If you did, read the screen where it talks about what will happen to your computer and are you sure you want to proceed.
Then come back here and let us know about how much data is kept.
don't worry. We'll wait.
@@LironSegevI have not done this specific recovery, however I have reinstalled windows on systems with data. When the install process proceeds, it asked if you want to keep the data or format the hard drive, deleting all data. I have successfully completed a reinstall with my data intact. I know this is different from what you show here. I'll accept your statement that you lose data following the process you describe. Best wishes.
Very interesting and informative video as always. Thank you. This is why I subscribed to your channel a few years ago,when you had a dark beard instead of the mature old guy beard! LOL!
haha - yeah these new studio lights make it look 10 times worse. Santa anyone? lol
Very nice to know, will get right on these. Will be sending these out to my kids they are always having one issue or another ?
nice!
There’s a problem that flash drives have that older media like floppies or CD’s didn’t: they’re so small they’re hard to label. So, how do you tell which is which? Do you have perhaps a key rack on the wall with each flash labeled?
I have a an "emergency" box with the flash drives in there and each one has a tag attached to it.
HD Clone has done wonders for me to image backup and cloning.
I never store my data files like pictures, movies, textfiles, cnc projects and alot more on the C-drive (where Microsoft suggests we store it like the documents folder, movies folder and such) but i store it on my D-drive, which is a physically separate harddrive in my pc. So if windows (or the C partition) crashes and it won't boot anymore, this D drive should still work. I just bought a new pc and I transferred that drive to the new pc and my data is still there. I don't use the documents, movies, pictures and download folders windows provides. I've always worked this way by storing my data on a separate partition or preferably a separate drive and never had issues losing data when doing a fresh install of windows.
This video has me confused. Years ago upon first starting up a computer that I bought with Windows 10 operating system immediately went into the control panel and selected "Back Up or Restore your files". From there created a system image. I'm into a lot of multi operating systems on one computer and accidentally erased the Windows 10 partition several months later. The back up image did work with all the programs that were installed and files created. This did have one restriction, the back up images that were saved to a thumb drive with a fat32 format did not work. Another external drive was used to save a copy on a fat32 formatted partition also did not work. The back up image that I saved to a different internal SATA hard drive that was formatted NTFS did work. Why would you get into the 3 USB things if a back up image created using the Windows operating system as a feature is a lot less complicated and worked several years ago? Has a Windows update made this feature unusable that worked for me several years ago? Since then I have also created several more system images that have grown in memory size since additional files and programs were added, I hope these will work if needed someday.
Liron the treasure Segev!
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I've been using Acronis for the last 10 years. I do the clone on my personal machine along with backups and on the computer at church. The backups run I between my weekly clone. I am the tech support so, other than my time, it's free and I don't charge family and friends so...
Thanks you.
Always welcome
Spend a bit extra and buy external drives. Use those for your data and you don't have to worry about your PC falling over. Make sure you have at least one external drive as a backup and one to work with. This is the best solution for those with a lot of data.
Macrium Reflect is also a great image backup tool.
ooo never heard of this one - thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out
I believe they just got rid of the free version.
As others have said - the free version of the best program ever is no longer available.
Worth buying though and not super expensive. Just because something isn't free, doesn't mean it shouldn't be used.
Bought it and it has already paid for itself. Easy to use with different options. I highly recommend it.
Question:does SD card works as a useable OS Install insead of needing USB stick?
Learning how to use a flashdrive for Batocera was a big gamechanger for me. Also, Tails.
i have had some virus issues on winXP but since i went to win10, ive not had any problems.
the ONLY problem ive had with 10, was when windows installed an update that would not let windows run. i came home and opened my laptop and it was trying to repair itself. i was confused because when i closed the computer and went on some errands 4-5 hours earlier, it was working FINE.
thank fully i have a 22yr old daughter i was able to call and she got me back in with a new install of windows but i had lost all of my bookmarks and passwords to my net stuff. i lost a few things that were on the computer but being only a 512g SSD, most everything is kept on separate 2tb-4tb portable hard drives.
i DID set up a NAS but while i wanted to set it up in Raid 5 (4x 10 WD Red Pro drives in a Qnap enclosure) i second guessed myself and set it up Raid 1. ive looked and looked to try and reconfigure it to R5 but nothing shows me how to do a 'new installation' and start over. i dont like talking to support centers because i have bad hearing. nothings been stored there in the 5 months ive had it up (and running)...
thanks for your videos! much appreciated
About the antivirus bootable drive - it get s outdated quickly, You are more often than not infected by some new malware not in the antivirus database (at the time of creating a tool) so it's probably very useful to have a dual boot system with any Linux distro and create an antivirus tool from there (even after the infection) malware written for Windows doesn't attack Linux and vice versa. Or even create an antivirus tool from a live Linux, if you don't want to install it.
So my suggestion: "the 4th USB thing very Windows user must do right now" is to select a Linux distro and create a live USB. And then learn the basics of Linux.
Or pay the repair service every time You have a problem
I do a full backup of my Drive C: once a week and an incremental backup every day. Acronis. I also have an offline hard drive with Windows and Acronis that can boot and restore my backups.
nice!
Yes please Liron, please make video re Linux live boot, etc 🇦🇺
Great video. I tried and did not worked. I formatted the USB to Nt I forgot the name. I downloaded the Norton I downed ruf as well. I clicked on the icon and said I need the Nt stuff but I did it. Any suggestions. By the way I also did micro tend and they did not allow me to install. I needed to call support. I figure they want me to buy a subscription
I'm subscibed to this channel and have ' ALL ' selected with the BELL icon.......and NEVER get notifications of your postings.
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Does the cloning option saves even Apps activation keys, for example Microsoft Office implications and Acrobat…. Etc
I have had hard drives and SSD's fail on me in the past, so ever since I actively have Macrium Reflect cloning my main drive to a backup every morning. If anything happens, I only need to swap my boot drive in bios, and then replace the dead one, copy the data back, and then swap again and I'm back in business.
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My laptop won't boot, windows can't find the drive. The Master boot record is messed up but I'm not sure how to fix it, I just want to get the files off it. The drive definitely doesn't boot. it was running win 10 and its an older laptop from 10 years ago but i got it second hand and then after 3 years the drive failed. I still have everything, waiting to find an inexpensive solution that I can do myself.
Hi, Some USB pendrives, no matter the brand and capacity, are not recognized and not shown up by Windows 10 while they were before. What is the way to get them back? Thank you so much.
I liked your video but recommend ventoy and having everything on one usb drive and it's drag and all drop iso nice and simple 👍 so everything is in one place
I know I am showing my age here, but I remember when a flash drive with 256 Megabytes was viewed as high capacity and was locked up in a security box.
Now 8 Gigabyte flash drives are sitting out in the open by the register next to the gum and candy.
I can only imagine when the 1 Terabyte flash drive is considered small capacity.
I'm so old I remember when my flash drive had holes in it. Oh, wait. Those were the punch cards I was using in college. Glad I got a job in the school's computer lab so my 500+ card deck of a COBOL program didn't have to go on the cards, but I was able to use my computer lab account to do my programs.
@@bikeny My flash drive was spooled from wheel to wheel.
I remember my first computer came with only 4 megs of ram, and that was on the high end at the time.
Commodore 64 was mine
I was in middle school when my mom bought the 1st computer. It was windows 98. Cd burners had just came out. The pc had a CD-ROM but the burner had to be bought separately
I'd like to see how one can connect to an Old version of FreeNAS specifically FreeNAS 9.1. Back in 2016 I bought an HP Mini Server and filled it up with total 16TB of 4 x 4TB Ironwolf NAS HDDs. Everything was working great until last year I upgraded my various Linux machines and Windows machine. Linux I think now using samba version 4.15 and upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 so whatever happened there means I can't access my NAS neither. I can login to the NAS via the web interface but there is no file manager nor means to get the stuff off my NAS and FreeNAS is now TrueNAS and now Linux based vs FreeBSD and so many changes. I absolutely wish software would remain backwards compatible. Do you perhaps have an easy solution to get the New OS's to see and make use of the old FreeNAS Samba. Going out to buy some large capacity drives and install a previous version of Ubuntu 18.04 just to backup my NAS and do a complete re-install is not going to be a cheap option especially with our current economy and load shedding which means power black outs for hours at a time. Thanks!
I find using Ventoy to be more useful, you can boot ISOs without flashing any of them like WIndows 11, UBCD etc...
I find that not putting all my eggs into one basket a good thing. If you lose the drive or it malfunctions its not like you can go and download Hiren utility - your data is gone.
@@LironSegev The same goes for you, if yours malfunctions or lose it the data is gone.
@@Ohem1 yup. But since it's separated I won't lose everything. Besides I do this once every three months and alternate USB flash drives.
9:23 - Just a note that just because an anti-virus program scans your machine and doesn't find anything, doesn't mean that its clean. It just means it didn't detect anything .. not the same thing. Even if you scan with three anti-viruses, doesn't mean your machine is clean. Its like being attacked by a giraffe with wellington boots on. While the chance is low, its not zero.
I run a Virtual 10 desktop within win10, so if anything happens, then I just delete that and start over, then main system is running raid also on VPN and hardware firewall which is realtime on cloud storage, pretty much like gaming centers around the world, so nothing shd go wrong
I have an old Windows 10 and a newer windows 11 computers. I like windows 10 much better and wondering if I can revert the W11 to Windows 10 using my old computer as a source?
Thanks for the help from a non-techie Liron you're a prince.
Glad to help
I have owned Acronis for some time and used it. But I have never had to restore my computer (lucky me) But I am wondering what would be recovered since I have all my personal files in MS OneDrive and Google Drive. If I restore with Acronis, will I be "restored" back to being able to see my OneDrive and Google drive files?
Your operating system, 'Windows', would be restored. Once done, you can open your browser and access 1D from which all of your data can be accessed and restored to your computer. It's one of the best games in town unless you have a brother in another state and ya'll have mirrored NAS systems.
Does an image clone of the hdd/ssd via Macrium Reflect represent the same difference with respect to the flash drive backup in terms of being able to boot up?
havent use that software so I can't answer the question
Well, I'm using ValiDrive on the USB drive I intend to use for this, and it is going so slow. But at least it's so far not showing any errors or saying there's stuff on it that was put on there to intentionally take up space.
yeah it takes a while depends on the size of the drive obviously and of course you can use your computer whille it is doing its thing.
I'm a computer tech, for a new installation of windows, with current updates and saving all the clients data, I charge $75.00 total.. It's not hard to do.. it takes like an hour and a half to do, depending on the computer speed..
Makes sense, it's your time and your knowledge people pay for. To be clear, I have no issues with tech people providing a great service! I have an issue with something that is an existing Windows system that just needs a quick boot off a USB to fix it
@@LironSegev I completely agree, there are or were a few fake techs in my area way over pricing people and using the personal information they stole from their clients, Myself and a few others helped find, trick & get many of them arrested.. I charge a low fee, mainly because I don't need the money, and basically charging for software (The OS) and/or hardware I may need, Those who are low income and living on a fixed income, I do it free of charge.. My wife & I were helped when we needed help, I am paying back and forward.. I am a retired master carpenter, I do this also, because I love & enjoy helping people.. Now for building computers, I do get paid well, except, I do also build computer for free for families that can't afford to get one for their children.. Thank you for sharing, I find your information and tips are very helpful for the average person..
Hi what size does the drive have to be
Hi Liron, great to find your channel. Are you South African, definitely a South African accent.
liron, I made a usb drive, media creatrion tool but picked the wrong drive a TB ssd I use for data now I see it only as a 32 GB usb. Is this fixable
If something something wonky on my pc and I can't fix it I just do a fresh windows install. It takes awhile but at least all the bad stuff will be gone. I also always backup my files on external hard drives every few months just in case.
MONTHS!?!?!?
Nothing I put on there normally besides steam games and they're all on the cloud anyway. @@graveseeker
If you've upgraded from XP to Windows 10, will the media disk still work? I heard that you will lose the ability to use your activation key
How do I access my backup after creating it? Up to now whenever I connect an external hard drive to my laptop it makes a backup but I don’t know how to access the back up to use that data or simply verify that it’s accurate! Please would you tell me the steps or where I can go to find that information? Thank you So Much!
Type 'restore' in the search box at the bottom left of the screen. It's fairly self-explanatory but we're here if you need help.
For backup, you can create a new partition from your existing HDD/SSD and copy all the files there. Only the C partition will be affected and deleted anyway, so if all your files are on another partition (D, E, F,...etc), then you're safe to go.
Unless the drive fails.
Was thinking about this last night with my laptop suddenly going very very slow and lamenting my backup strategy which is copy everything. Wish I could just do an incremental back up and not the whole lot again seeing it's going so slow.
Hi will the media creation link be ok for Windows 11 as the download is for Windows 10? Thank you