I cloned my Windows XP partition to a blank hard drive (using Clonezilla), then when I tried to boot from the new drive, the system POSTs, then sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor. The XP ...

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 ...

One of our servers is really ill. I <I>think</I> what caused it was a <BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> tar -cf /dev/sda /stuff/ </pre><BR>instead of<BR><pre ...

Then I cover problems that can occur during the boot process and show you how to use you new knowledge to troubleshoot those problems. The Initial Turn-on POST, Power On Self Test, is what every ...

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Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, "I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter's PC." I came to learn that some ...

When your PC is running properly, you probably won't spend a great deal of time thinking about the Windows boot process. What would be the point? You turn your PC on in the morning, Windows starts and ...

The first sector on the hard disk, which contains a tiny program and the disk's partition table. When the program is executed, it determines which partition contains the active operating system and ...

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of File System Forensic Analysis is posted with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional. The last chapter provided an overview of volume analysis and why it’s important ...

In today’s post, we will identify the causes and then provide the possible solutions to the issue, when you see an error message – NTLDR is missing, Press Ctrl ...