The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a special type of boot sector, placed at the very beginning of the storage device. It tells your computer what to do when it starts. It also contains information on how ...

I have a Win2K machine with 2 instances of the OS running on a 60GB IBM drive. It has been running great until yesterday. I started up the machine, chose which instance of the OS I wanted at the ...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer's master ...

Are you getting the “Startup repair couldn’t repair your pc” error on your Microsoft Windows computer? There are several factors that can cause this problem ...

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 ...

Well I had a server go down today and it seems that the boot sector/master boot record is corrupt. I took over this installation from a previous admin and normally I'd just use a repair disk and ...

The first three months of 2013 have seen a surge in spam volume, as well as large numbers of samples of the Koobface social networking worm and master boot record (MBR) infecting malware, according to ...