You can look inside MEMTEST.IMG with 7-zip and see it won't boot. It just has literally 2 image files. It will not boot. Also I tried it, I tried burning it from windows. I haven't tried converting it ...

Per your instructions, I downloaded Windows Defender Offline on a new DVD. When I start up, all I see is a listing of files on the DVD. It sounds as if you are booting into regular Windows. You need ...

I work at a university and we regularly get lots of new computers in that need to be imaged. Normally, people use a NetBoot server with NetRestore to do this, but our network is too clunky and ...

Working on a failed drive for my wife. The PC has had to be restored from backup twice so I ordered a new drive. In the meantime SMARTS is now outright telling us the drive is bad, so I'm sure I'm on ...

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 ...

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The Windows 7 System Recovery Command Prompt is a text-based console that allow you to perform maintenance and recovery tasks on your computer by typing the commands that you would like to execute.

You start your workday by booting up your Windows PC. You end the day by shutting it down again. No fuss. No muss. No bother. Yeah, right. A problem at boot time can keep you from your work–or your ...

If you have multiple operating systems installed on your computer, or if you are trying to boot off various utility or other boot disks, you may run into problems where using an alternative or desired ...