Can a CD be burned in a way so that it emulates the Windows Boot Disk, wherefrom I get control of all the inherent features a normal boot disk - like formatting, partitioning etc? Whenever I had to ...

The system I want to install W2K on doesn't have a working floppy so I would like to boot from the CD. Unfortunately the W2K pro CD I have is a discounted version distributed by the University where I ...

A floppy disk that contains its own operating system. It was typically used to recover a failed system or to install a new operating system in the days when floppy drives were common. See bootable ...

Arguably the biggest advantage of the Arduino ecosystem is how easy it is to get your code running. Type a few lines into the IDE, hit the button, and in a few seconds you’re seeing an LED blink or ...

If you’re a sysadmin, you may have noticed a somewhat annoying trend: computers — especially servers — rarely ship with floppy drives any more, and yet BIOS updates still often require that you boot ...

An emergency boot CD will, like the floppy I described, get Windows running if your hard drive’s boot sector or Windows’ boot files are corrupted. This solution requires Gilles Vollant’s WinImage, a ...