I have an old laptop with a busted CD drive but it seems to boot to the HDD (I put an old Windows drive in the slot and it sees Windows there but crashes during boot). I don't have an option to boot ...

The Mac OS X Lion operating system includes a recovery utility that you can use to reinstall the operating system if necessary. If you have a partitioned hard drive, you simply need to select the ...

Corrupt and new disks might not have a working Recovery partition, but there are still ways to access one and reinstall OS X, if needed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

So you want to reset your HP laptop, but you're looking for options to reset your HP laptop settings that don't involve a restore disc. You're in luck. The HP laptops that are shipped with Windows 7 ...

As the designated tech guy around the house, I knew even before my parents told me that their Windows 10 laptop is getting slower and slower that I had to swap the original hard drive with one of the ...

Next, I used sys.com to copy the bootable files off of the startup diskette on the hard drive's boot sector. The hard drive now boots, but only into the windows 98 dos mode.<BR><BR>How can I get the ...