Businesses often require the use of dual-boot setups -- computers that can run more than one operating system -- to access certain applications or hardware. Some older software and devices aren't ...

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 ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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 ...

Stop throwing away old boot drives—they're still faster than any USB stick ...

Forward-looking: Do you still use an HDD as the primary boot drive for your PC? While there are some exceptions, most people today prefer a much speedier SSD for booting into the OS, which could be a ...

I think the solution to this one might be simple, just looking for some help. My goal is to test out 64bit bit Windows Server 2008 on an external sata hdd before replacing my existing 32 bit Windows ...

A new report says that OEMs have said that Microsoft is pushing OEMs to not support HDDs as the primary storage device in pre-built Windows 11 PCs, using much faster SSDs in their place. Microsoft has ...

Was doing the review for the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive and the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD, and I really needed to do a boot time comparison for the Seagate Momentus XT, so I decided why not do it in ...

Microsoft could have plans to scrap its use of hard disk drives (HDD) among its main storage components on PCs running Windows 11, according to a recent report by industry analyst firm Trendfocus, as ...