First post on Ars Technica! I recently did a clean install of Windows XP Home on my newly built pc because the first install was wrought with impurities. Whenever I boot up I get a "Boot Disk Failure, ...

I finally made the jump to Windows 7 the other day. Long-story short, I'm having some HDD issues right now. Here's what I did. Windows XP is on an older Seagate drive. I loaded Win7 onto a new, faster ...

Have a bootable Linux USB recovery disk ready for system recovery, file access, and malware removal. Use it for managing partitions, troubleshooting, diagnostics, privacy, and security to maintain ...