The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...

The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything your ...

I've got a Shuttle AN35N mobo with two PATA drives on IDE1 and 2 DVD/DVD-R drives on IDE2. <BR><BR>I just picked up a Highpoint RocketRAID 1640 and WD740GD, and want to reinstall Windows on the Raptor ...

This solution requires you to open the computer and disconnect and reconnect the hardware inside. Proceed only if you know what you are doing or take the computer to a hardware technician to perform ...

With an old laptop, I cloned the OS HD to an SSD with Macrium Reflect, both harddrives are mounted inside the laptop. When I enter the BIOS, I wanted to select the SSD as the first boot choice. But it ...

Hard drives rely on something known as a serial ATA connection to communicate with your computer. During new installs or deep troubleshooting, it is sometimes necessary to disable the SATA connection ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

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 ...