A little background first:<BR><BR>I've got a 40GB Maxtor drive in a system where the BIOS only detects around 32GB. To get around this, I used Maxtor's utility (EZ-BIOS, I believe) to get access to my ...

I have a laptop that has no CD, floppy and I could never get the USB keys to boot on it. Attitionally I tried an install over the network since it supports that, but that doesn't work either.<BR><BR>I ...

There are only two reasons to partition or format (or both) a PC hard disc drive: one, because it is a brand new drive that you're about to install on your machine, or two, the programs or data that ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...