Users who have Windows installed under Boot Camp may experience a problem where mysterious files appear in the trash and cannot be deleted. These files persists in the trash despite the application of ...

Sometimes people who have just reinstalled OS X on their systems or migrated to a new boot device may find a folder entitled "Boot OSX" appearing on their desktops. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

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 ...

If you receive an error message – Failure when attempting to copy boot files, then this post may be able to help you fix the problem. BCDBoot is a command-line ...

The files on the DVD don't look bootable.. In order to rule out that it's not an issue with that physical computer and in order for the thing to be reproducable, i thought of trying it in a Virtual ...

Learn about how the cutting-edge, free software Heads project detects BIOS and kernel tampering, all with keys under your control. Disclaimer: I work for Purism, and my experience with Heads began as ...

The bootable image needs to be, well, bootable -- which is why you can't just use some files off your HD; it needs a boot sector and all that. Put it on a floppy drive and see if it works. Remember ...