External hard disks have become a very convenient way to not only expand the storage capabilities of a system, but also expand options for booting, cloning, and performing various diagnostics. As a ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

If you own a Raspberry Pi, you can start several operating systems from a single boot medium. All you need is a micro SD card ...

Dual booting Linux and Windows is one of the rare setups where you don’t have to compromise—you get the best of both worlds.

If you are dual-booting Windows 11 with Windows 10 or Windows 8/7, you might find entering Safe Mode a bit tricky with Shift+F8. You have to Run msconfig.exe, tick the Safe Boot option, and then ...

We noticed a peculiar scenario where our system starts normally most of the time, but sometimes it boots into BitLocker and asks for the key. If we press Alt or any other button to try to troubleshoot ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...

To load a program into memory, you mustfirst load a program into memory. The bootupprocess, often a complex multistep sequenceinvolving numerous substeps, solvesthis problem. Any boot-up process, ...

Boot process is the process in which any SoCs takes various device configurations (trim bit, device security settings, boot vector location) and memory initialization (like FLASH/SRAM/GRAM) is done ...