Ok, did a big long search, both here and microsoft knowledge base.<BR>Start of problem: see previous thread, but in short wanted to create an easy install cd-r/'s for my laptop and later my desktop ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the information in the first sector of a hard disk or a removable drive. It identifies how and where the system's operating system (OS) is located in order to be booted ...

What is a GUID Partition Table, or GPT? In this post, we will see what a GPT partition is and how it compares to MBR disks. We will also learn how to format, remove, or delete a GPT disk or convert it ...

While installing Windows 8, Ragav RG converted his hard drive to the new GPT partitioning format. He asked about its advantages. Before it can load an operating system, your PC needs a way of know ...

I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. As somebody who’s always chasing current PC hardware and standards, I sometimes forget not everybody else is the same way. Case in ...