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    Need Help to ID Two Flash Drives

    Prior to installing Kubuntu last September, I had somehow manage to acquire Ubuntu Live (14.04 I believe) and boot to it via usb. It surely must have been Divine intervention. Today I found 2 flash drives. One is marked Ubuntu and has a few folders / files in it. The other is not marked and has several folders / files in it. Can you determine if one of the two is the "complete" bootable usb? Thanks.



    Kubuntu 14.04 / KDE 4.13.3 / GRUB Version: 0.97-29ubuntu66
    HP15 -    -f033wm Laptop / CPU: Intel / GPU: Intel Corporation Atom Processor / RAM: 8GB / Hard Drive: 1 each / Seagate / Optical Drive: HP DVDRW GUB0N / Windows 10

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    Looks like the 2nd on, with isolinux, casper, etc., on it. But, there is a way ... try to boot your PC with it and see. You'll probably have to re-boot with the flash drive inserted, then hit the magic key to enter your BIOS, then select the USB to boot from. That USB, the 2nd one listed that I am talking about, has an EFI file. So, when you select it from your list of drives in BIOS, make sure that USB says something like EFI or UEFI in its description.
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      Ok thanks. Perhaps the other (UUI) one is the Universal USB Installer I've been reading up on. Maybe not; sounds good. Actually I'm wanting to test drive Mint so I've been looking to see if it too has a "Live" usb like the Ubuntu did. I ran across a decent (comprehendible for my pea brain) Ubuntu usb boot et al tutorial on youtube.
      Last edited by logan01; Jun 16, 2016, 12:03 PM.
      Kubuntu 14.04 / KDE 4.13.3 / GRUB Version: 0.97-29ubuntu66
      HP15 -      -f033wm Laptop / CPU: Intel / GPU: Intel Corporation Atom Processor / RAM: 8GB / Hard Drive: 1 each / Seagate / Optical Drive: HP DVDRW GUB0N / Windows 10

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        The second one has the complete installer. It also has the SanDisk security program that came with the USB.
        The wubi.exe is the installer option that installs Linux as a file on the Windows file system instead of a dual boot partition
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        – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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