If you mean using a boot CD to boot your hard drive install normally (as opposed to being a rescue disk), then the simplest solution would be to make a boot floppy, and when you're satisfied it's ...

While most Linux distributions have an assortment of at least some useful diagnostic and recovery tools (and often, looking at a drive through another operating system can be immensely useful in ...

Hi everyone - <BR>I am trying to setup a Win2k / Linux (I am using RH6.2 for now, but want to switch to SuSE 7.2) machine on a single 40GB drive. The issue is that ...

Zeebra Linux recently announced the availability of the Zeebra Linux CD--a version of Linux that runs from CD, without requiring a hard disk installation. The CD ...

OK, you've settled on which version of Linux you want to load on your old PC. Here's how to make it happen. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog ...

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When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change ...

Last week I described a free CD called dyne:bolic that promised video and audio production and streaming capability on a bootable GNU/Linux CD. See the dynebolic web site for more information. I was ...

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Is it possible to write to an NTFS partition after booting a PC with a Linux boot disk? I have a PC with a corrupt ntldr file on the C: drive that won't boot into Windows. I started the machine with ...