But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive ... of transforming the key drive into a bootable utility. While there are a couple of software installations involved ...

It's not as hard as it once was ... which is easy to get, and an empty USB drive you can load and boot from. Rufus is a small ...

or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard disk or SSD.