Check if a USB Drive is bootable

When cre­at­ing a bootable USB, check­ing that it all went well is a bitch.
Unless you have a sec­ond com­puter at hand to test it with, you need to shut-down, reboot, and if it worked, than great, but if it didn’t, you’ll have to do the process again and again, and if you’re fail­ing for the 4th-5th time, it starts to get quite annoying.

Well thank­fully the devel­op­ers of MobaLiveCD have cre­ated a small util­ity that allows to test a live CD directly on win­dows with just a sin­gle file.

1. Down­load: http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/MobaLiveUSB_0.1.exe
2. Copy the file to the USB device
3. Run the file

The file is actu­ally a small vir­tual machine that allows run­ning the bootable CD/USB directly on win­dows, thus allow­ing a quick check to see if a device is bootable.