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 ...

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If you use Windows, it is always a good idea to have a Windows 11 or Windows 10 Bootable USB around. My new Windows setup crashed, and I had no way to use Advanced Recovery. So I had two options—find ...

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 ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a common task for installing or repairing operating systems, but verifying its bootability without restarting the computer can be challenging. Here are several methods ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

If your Windows PC is booting slowly, there's a fix for that, but what if it's not booting at all? There are instances when your Windows machine refuses to boot or crashes. Such a situation creates ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...