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Wanna boot your PC into Linux or Windows 8 from your Android device? DriveDroid makes that perfectly possible

May 12, 2015

Via: itCurated
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Android enjoys such a thriving developer community, that the question of “what can an Android smartphone do?” is better voiced as “What can’t an Android smartphone do?” Control your computer from afar? Check! Play PSP games? Betcha! But can you boot Windows 8 from it? Guess what, the answer’s yes! DriveDroid is a brilliant app that lets you convert your Android smartphone to a bootable CD/USB stick that’s able to boot your computer into multiple operating systems, provided you got the images. Pure sorcery!

DriveDroid supports bootable ISO and IMG files stored on your device, and is able to emulate USB and CD rom drives, depending on the kind of bootable image you want to run. With USB-drive emulation, users can boot IMG files and most Linux distributions. With CD-rom emulation, it is possible to boot all ISO files.

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