Ok, I struggled with where to put this since I don't know that it really fits anywhere. I'm trying to load up Ubuntu Server 12.04 on an old Pentium 2 - 400 circa 1998 (Hey! It meets the minimum ...

There's nothing worse than a machine that seems to have given up the ghost. Windows refuses to boot. Your precious files are locked away. And, without proper diagnostic tools, you can’t quite figure ...

Bart has BBIE which creates an image of a boot sector of a CD. All 2048 bytes of it. Bart's MKBT can apparently put a boot sector onto a USB flash stick but only a floppy boot sector like 512KB or ...

Remember the good old days, when PCs were young and programs weresmall?You could put DOS and a bunch of useful tools on a singlefloppy disk, which always held a place of honor near your computerfor ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change ...

"Disk Error" appears when attempting to install Windows XP via Boot Camp Occasionally users who are installing Windows XP on their Mac receive a message reading, "Press any key to boot from CD.

Troy Barkmeier reports a problem starting up All-in-One G3 Macs from CD-R and CD-RW discs: "There is a ROM/system board problem on the new PowerMac G3 All-in-one systems, code named Artemis. These ...

Look at your libraries on your Acer laptop – all your files, receipts, invoices and contact information. Now imagine losing all of it. That is not a pretty picture for any business user. Larger ...

A dual-boot setup enables us to run various operating systems without the need for additional hardware, on a single set of hardware, thus reducing total cost. We have already discussed how to dual ...