>There is one way you can do it, and ONLY IF your BIOS allows you to boot from the SD Stick, which has to have a bootable copy of the operating system. One way around this might be to have what is called a LIVE CD of Linux which is bootable into a Linux operating system.

I would recommend an Ubuntu Live CD. You can download the live edition of Ubuntu and burn an iso to a disk and then set your BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD ROM drive. Have your SD stick in the USB slot when you boot and Linux should detect the stick.

The only other question is, what is on the SD stick and is the software or whatever you have on it, compabitle with the Linux operating system. FAT 32 which is what most SD sticks are formatted to are recognized in Linux, so its not a matter of not being able to see the files there - it may be a problem using the files because the kind of files or the format of the files or the file extensions may not be compatible in Linux itself. You might want to get onto the Ubuntu forum and post a question there asking if there is a Windows EMULATOR you could launch within Ubuntu that simulates Windows and could potentially allow you to use the files or software inside the emulator.

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