Quote from: alpine on March 13, 2012, 06:29 pmthanks for all the replies makes me feel better now. :) :)@pine thanks for the badge of approval !! i would do a liveusb but i really wanted to use ironkey as it has security that you just cant get on a normal flash drive but i am kinda going back and forth between live usb and ironkey. unfortunately i dont think i can boot off a ironkey because of its security. and i have a portable virtual box on there but it does not seem to save anything i do so i might just go with any old usb any thoughts on that?Yup, you can't use an Ironkey as a live-usb to boot from. But you can store your Liberte on a regular usb key and encrypt it. Then you can use the Ironkey for any persistent storage you need. It's a little tricky to access Ironkey from Liberte due to Liberte's security precautions, but if you've got this far you'll work it out easily.