Just before we start, you should know that this post is not about switching firmware modes. If you are planning to move from legacy BIOS to UEFI, you will have to use MBR2GPT Tool. So if you are in a ...

Are you dual-booting Windows and Linux but struggling with a clunky boot process and system conflicts? Wondering why your setup feels less smooth than promised? Well, here are five essential BIOS ...

Solid-state drives (SSD) are a faster upgrade to the traditional hard disk drives (HDD). SSDs beat HDDs, not only in speed but also in performance and durability. This post isn’t about how great SSDs ...

When we installed Linux on Intel’s Haswell NUC, the biggest problem we encountered involved booting the computer after the install process was complete. We’ve been talking with Intel’s NUC team since ...

I have two WD 120GB HDs installed in my box, one with XP installed and the other awaiting a Gentoo install. (XP is on the primary master, Gentoo will go on the slave.)<BR><BR>A friend with the same HD ...

There are multiple stages associated with a new PC build where things can go wrong — you might buy the wrong components, inadvertently break some of them and cost yourself hundreds of dollars, or end ...

Malware continues to take advantage of a legacy component of modern systems designed in the 1980s. Despite the cyber threat landscape continuing to evolve at an ever-increasing pace, the exploitation ...

To load a program into memory, you mustfirst load a program into memory. The bootupprocess, often a complex multistep sequenceinvolving numerous substeps, solvesthis problem. Any boot-up process, ...

In its latest blog on Building Windows 8, Microsoft explains how it tried to create a more seamless boot experience for its upcoming new operating system. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...