Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

I have two hard drives. One has Windows 98, one has Windows XP. I want to run them in a dual-boot configuration. Both drives are bootable, and Windows was installed on each of them without the other ...

I am working on a friend's father's old computer. It has an old install of Windows 95. He says that, after installing Adobe Acrobat Reader, it would no longer boot into Windows 95.<BR><BR>When I boot ...

Using a bootable external drive in lieu of your computer's internal hard drive can add a layer of security as well as portability to your valuable company data and installed programs. Once your ...

Bootable hard drives. Creating a bootable hard drive in Mac OS X is not difficult, but is still a significant undertaking. The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the ...

There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

The ability to boot from an external FireWire hard drive is invaluable, allowing the use of full system clones (as can be created by SuperDuper! and other utilities) in the event of a drive failure, ...

This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

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&#8212;even usurp&#8212;our old rescue and ...