Customers can also free up additional storage space by creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition.

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This free utility generates a bootable disk that tests your system, then provides a comprehensive report of its findings.

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The WarpDrive card is bootable, has no external power requirement and installs as a single drive with no user configuration required.

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From there you can create a bootable USB stick or DVD to install at a later date, with your Windows license validated.

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The idea is that corporate IT can deploy these thumbdrives to employees who can then run a secure, managed instance of Windows on a variety of PCs with a bootable USB 2.0 (or faster) port.

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It's not really designed for data storage -- instead, it's meant to be used as a certified Windows To Go fixed drive, "a fully manageable corporate Windows 8 workspace on a specially configured, bootable USB drive".

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