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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When your PC is running properly, you probably won't spend a great deal of time thinking about the Windows boot process. What would be the point? You turn your PC on in the morning, Windows starts and ...