In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

Boot Sector Viruses are malicious programs that reside in your hard drive. They infect your machine by replacing your Master Boot Record (MBR) or DOS Boot Sector with their code. In some cases, boot ...

I am trying to create a boot disk for Win2K. To do so, I need to copy Boot.ini, NTLDR, and Ntdetect.com. However, I cannot see them on my harddrive, even with "view hidden files" turned on. How do I ...

When you lose data on a hard drive, a sector editor allows you to view data almost everywhere on the drive. Here's how you can use WinHex to recover data anywhere on a hard drive. Felix The Cat had a ...

Sometimes, a virus or manual error corrupts the different partitions on the hard disk. It is also possible to damage the boot sector or MBR in an attempt to recover ...

Hi folks. My sister just called and said:<br><br>"When I try to start my computer, I starts to boot up and then quits"<br><br>I said: "What do you mean quits?".. Shuts right off.<br><br>She said she ...

N.B.: Some laptops allow you to set the boot devices using a Windows application. Toshiba, for example, does this with some of their laptops. The application is either a standalone application or an ...