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 ...

Booting from CD is one of those computer functions that everyone seems to assume you know how to do. Watch this video, then read this quick tip, and you too will know. You may be able to just boot ...

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

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 ...

I have in my posession a ThinkPad 760xd, equipped with an 8x CD-ROM, but no floppy drive. The operating system that was on it before was completely hosed, so the drive needs to be re-partitioned and ...

It's a troubleshooting nightmare: you have problems starting your standard Mac OS X installation, or another serious issue that requires re-installation of Mac OS X ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...