I cloned my Windows XP partition to a blank hard drive (using Clonezilla), then when I tried to boot from the new drive, the system POSTs, then sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor. The XP ...

When you lose data on a hard drive, a sector editor allows you to view data almost everywhere on the drive. Here's how you can use WinHex to recover data anywhere on a hard drive. Felix The Cat had a ...

One of our servers is really ill. I <I>think</I> what caused it was a <BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> tar -cf /dev/sda /stuff/ </pre><BR>instead of<BR><pre ...

Then I cover problems that can occur during the boot process and show you how to use you new knowledge to troubleshoot those problems. The Initial Turn-on POST, Power On Self Test, is what every ...

Struggling with a corrupted GPT bootloader in Windows 11? Discover step-by-step methods to repair it quickly and get your PC ...

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 ...

The first sector on the hard disk, which contains a tiny program and the disk's partition table. When the program is executed, it determines which partition contains the active operating system and ...