Knowing how to boot from your laptop's disc drive is essential. Hard drive crashes and viruses can put your company's data at risk, and various programs designed to rescue files or remove malware are ...

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 passwords, and recover data … all ...

VMware can install a guest operating system either from a physical disc drive or an international standard for organization image, which is also referred to as a disc ...

Tried restarting several times over. So I figure what the heck, I will just reinstall from the actual Windows disk. I insert the CD but the system doesn't boot from the CD. I enter the BIOs and there ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...

Live CDs, DVDs or USB drives let you run Linux without actually installing it. Here are five reasons why you should. In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for ...

June 17, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows: If you have a spare USB drive or SD card lying around, use RMPrepUSB to turn it into a PC troubleshooting ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

Its probably just the boot order. Go into the BIOS and make sure its trying to boot from the correct hard drive first. If you aren't sure what drive you are supposed to boot from, just switch whatever ...