Disc stuck in the drive Check to see if this is the case - if so, remove the disc (s) and try again Incorrect boot sequence Enter the BIOS setup of your computer and edit the boot sequence so that the ...

If when you boot your Windows 11/10 computer and you receive the No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed error message, then this post may help you. In ...

There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

I'm not sure if this belongs here but I couldn't think of a more suitable forum. If it doesn't belong here, please, to the power that be, move it to the right place, thanks.<BR><BR>Now, I have been ...

DOS might seem like a relic now, but sometimes it's the only way to fix a problem that Windows seems ill-equipped to deal with -- like this one. A few weeks ago, I ran into a really weird problem on ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

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 ...