I clone my boot drive fairly regularly. I'm often building a PC for the PC Gamer Magazine or testing a new system for review, and my options are clone my existing test bench drive with all the games, ...

Its probably just the boot order. Go into the BIOS and make sure its trying to boot from the correct hard drive first. If you aren't sure what drive you are supposed to boot from, just switch whatever ...

I am in charge of upgrading a small computer lab from Windows XP to Windows 7 and I'm having a hell of a time with it. One quirk of these computers is that they don't have a DVD drive, so I've made an ...

Apple makes it harder to make an external boot drive for your Mac than it has in the past, but sometimes you still need to do it. Here's how to do it in macOS Sequoia. Apple Silicon and macOS may be ...

A dual-boot setup enables us to run various operating systems without the need for additional hardware, on a single set of hardware, thus reducing total cost. We have already discussed how to dual ...

Forward-looking: Do you still use an HDD as the primary boot drive for your PC? While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a ...

When Windows 11 was first announced, a lot of people were taken aback by the strict system requirements for the OS. CPUs from both AMD and Intel, that were only a couple of generations old, were ...

The official Raspberry Pi Flash Drive has decent performance and a sleek design.