Can a CD be burned in a way so that it emulates the Windows Boot Disk, wherefrom I get control of all the inherent features a normal boot disk - like formatting, partitioning etc? Whenever I had to ...

What am I to do? I want to flash my epox board with the latest bios, but it says you must boot from a dso disk. When I create a boot disk from win98rev2, I get booted into windows. I suspect this is ...

Despite all of your preventive measures and the best-laid plans, sometimes the worst-case scenario happens: Your primary file server crashes right before your regularly scheduled backup window, and ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

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 ...

A tiny bootable toolkit that revives dead Windows PCs, recovers files, resets passwords, and fixes disasters without ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

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 ...

Q: For years, my hobby has been working on vintage IBM machines. Recently, in trying to get an IBM PC330 operational again, I have come across an issue in which I am ...