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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Windows Boot Manager

Many users shy away from installing multiple operating systems on their computer because of problems that can arise in the boot sector. Some operating systems like to replace the existing boot information with their own which would mean that the user would have to find a way to replace or add those boot information again [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Analyze and Repair PC Hardware

I’m the family’s computer guy and it is slowly spreading to family friends and even neighbors as well thanks to recommendations of family members. Recently my mum told my grandmother’s neighbors that I could take a look at their computer which was showing a bluescreen during startup and well, it’s hard to say no to [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Tools

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 6th, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Copy and run Floppy Boot Disks from USB

Ghacks got slashdotted yesterday and I had to enable caching to make the site run fluent as usual. I’am sorry if you experienced troubles connecting to my website, those should be solved by now. When I was installing Windows XP on my new computer that had only SATA drives I had to use a floppy disk to load the SATA drivers because Windows did not have them onboard at that time. I had to buy a floppy drive, floppy disks and create a bootdisk and load the drivers from that disk during setup.

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Categories: Tools

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