Users who have Windows installed under Boot Camp may experience a problem where mysterious files appear in the trash and cannot be deleted. These files persists in the trash despite the application of ...

Sometimes people who have just reinstalled OS X on their systems or migrated to a new boot device may find a folder entitled "Boot OSX" appearing on their desktops. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

The files on the DVD don't look bootable.. In order to rule out that it's not an issue with that physical computer and in order for the thing to be reproducable, i thought of trying it in a Virtual ...

If you receive a Your PC needs to be repaired, The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required information, 0xc0000034, message on your Windows 11/10 ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

The bootable image needs to be, well, bootable -- which is why you can't just use some files off your HD; it needs a boot sector and all that. Put it on a floppy drive and see if it works. Remember ...

Installing Linux on computers with UEFI BIOS has a bad reputation - sometimes deservedly so. It can be easy, but perhaps more often than not it can be difficult, tedious and messy - and sometimes, as ...