Microsoft Windows operating system enables you to use its various versions in dual-boot configuration. You can run different versions of Windows operating system on a single machine. A combination of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Microsoft Windows XP in dual-boot configuration, is very popular and quite common, which is used. However, in some situations, you [...]
The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in a Microsoft Windows computer is a boot firmware, which provides all of the boot information to computer processor for proper booting of your system. In the first physical sector of BIOS, MBR (Master Boot Record) is stored. MBR loads the first sector of your boot media, either hard drive [...]
Files/folders saved on your Windows XP hard drive become inaccessible when the booting process is halted due to file system damage, operating system malfunction, and boot loader (MBR) corruption. Under most of these situations, a black screen or an error message appear at the startup of Windows XP. To get past such boot problems, the [...]
In Windows systems, the Disk Management is a snap-in that is provided with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) module. This utility enables you to manage the system disks such as creating or deleting partitions, marking partitions as active, etc. However, sometimes when you mark a partition as active the system may not be able to [...]
Is your Windows hard drive refusing to boot up when you start your computer? Can you boot your system using a floppy disk without any problem? The problem may occur due to missing or damaged boot files on your Windows hard drive. Corruption may occur due to numerous reasons such as virus infection and improper [...]
HTML clipboard When the computer system starts, it looks for a boot device generally to load an installed operating system. Hard disk is the common boot device used, while in some cases Floppy Disk, USB Flash drive, DVD, CD-ROM etc. are also used. If the system cannot find any boot device (when hard disk is [...]
The above behavior generally means that the significant data is either missing or corruption in VBR (Volume Boot Record). The volume boot record contains operating system specific information for format of the specific hard drive partitions. If this data area is damaged, by controller failure, virus infection, improper system shutdown etc., then Windows cannot access [...]
Disk Killer virus, also known as Ogre is a destructive virus that severely infects the Master Boot Record/ Boot Sector of the system. It spreads in the system by writing copies of itself to 3 blocks on a floppy diskette or hard drive. Furthermore, these blocks are marked bad in the File Allocation Table (FAT), [...]
Hard drive failures and crashes are very common problem, particularly in modern hard drive which are small in size and has high read/write speed. The rotating speed of the hard drives is increasing by bounds and leaps. But it has a adverse effect, immense centrifugal force is generated and eventually hard drive failure occurs. This [...]
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When the computer system starts, it looks for a boot device generally to load an installed operating system. Hard disk is the common boot device used, while in some cases Floppy Disk, USB Flash drive, DVD, CD-ROM etc. are also used. If the system cannot find any boot device (when hard disk is being [...]