You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...

I'm trying to make a bootable CD that boots to the image of 2.88 Meg DOS floppy and I'm not having much luck. Here's a quick run down of the steps I've taken.<P>1) Create a 1.44 Meg floppy disk that ...

A41202813 asked the Answer Line forum for the best way to turn a bootable optical disc, like a CD or DVD, into a file that you could burn back into a bootable disc. Without the word bootable, the ...

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 ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

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 ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

Despite all of your preventive measures and the best-laid plans, sometimes the worst-case scenario happens: Your primary file server crashes right before your regularly scheduled backup window, and ...

I’ve written quite a bit about installing Lion (OS X 10.7) and about the benefits of creating a bootable installer disc or drive. While the latter process isn’t prohibitively difficult, it’s still a ...