So, I've got a G5, and its internal drive seems to have been somewhat corrupted. When it tries to boot, it just shows the spinner for 15 minutes or so as the fans grow ever-louder. I can boot off the ...

Given only a Win2k installation is there any way to boot to DOS/make a DOS boot disk?<P>Ideally I'd like to format a 10 Meg partition as a bootable DOS drive. A borrowed Win95 install disk got the ...

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 ...

Dual booting is a great way to get the best of both worlds of Windows and Linux. It’s relatively straightforward to install the two operating systems alongside each other, and it's also a great ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

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 ...

R-Drive Image is a lightweight, but feature-rich, drive imaging program with very reliable performance and an improved boot disc. The more R-Drive Image changes, the more it stays the same. Now up to ...

Struggling with a corrupted GPT bootloader in Windows 11? Discover step-by-step methods to repair it quickly and get your PC ...

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 ...

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