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 ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...

There will come a time when your PC won't boot up. And when it comes, you won't be able to find your original Windows boot disk, if you have one at all. For those times, I recommend Boot Disk, an ...

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 ...

Suppose you're in a mixed-platform environment, and you've got a library of Symantec Ghost images happily tweaked and configured for your Windows XP deployments. Wouldn't it be great if you could get ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...