As also documented in our tutorials "Identifying and neutralizing problematic internal/external devices" and "Startup fails; solving", problematic external devices (FireWire, USB, etc. -- particularly ...

Connecting an external hard drive to a computer before turning on the system can confuse the device when loading the operating system. When a computer hangs after the BIOS splash screen while being ...

Wanted to see if other early adopters of Apple hardware are experiencing the same issue I am having. I just ordered up a fancy new MacBook Pro, touch-bar, and it shipped with the new specs just ...

If your Windows 11/10 PC or Laptop won’t start up or boot or the computer has power but won’t turn on, here are a few possible solutions you may want to try. There are mainly two scenarios. First, ...

When you turn on your PC, a lot goes behind the scene, starting with the detection of connected hardware. When you have multiple external drives or USB HDD connected to a PC, the UEFI or BIOS will ...

I'm in the process of replacing the HDD of my partner's laptop with an SDD. I've made the clone but it will be a few more weeks before she'll allow me to open the laptop and swap a few things out, so ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

I knew something was off when my PC started taking longer and longer to reach the desktop. Like most people, I first tried all the usual tricks to reduce that boot time. And while managing my startup ...

A newly discovered vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader, dubbed BootHole, may threaten Linux and Windows machines using Secure Boot. Attackers who exploit it could interfere with the boot process and ...

News about viruses and ransomware seems to be a daily occurrence. In some cases systems are breached because of direct attacks on the system or through other means such as via email attachments or ...