I have a laptop that has no CD, floppy and I could never get the USB keys to boot on it. Attitionally I tried an install over the network since it supports that, but that doesn't work either.<BR><BR>I ...

A little background first:<BR><BR>I've got a 40GB Maxtor drive in a system where the BIOS only detects around 32GB. To get around this, I used Maxtor's utility (EZ-BIOS, I believe) to get access to my ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...