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If you can get it to boot either the Windows Rcovery disc (generated from a running copy of Windows 7) or get to the recovery screen from your existing HDD install, you don't need to uninstall. Follow this procedure...

"gold-ball"????

Thanks for that link and suggestion to use Google. Now I don't need Tom's Hardware or its press release copying editors any more. I'm free!!! Thanks!!!!!! (Or... maybe TH's writers can learn to be more useful than other press release hacks.)

Bluetooth speakers, or USB/3.5mm cable? Not interested in the latter. What size laptop can it handle? Not a lot of facts in this article. At least they put a big low-RPM fan in there.

Your system appears to be falling back to other boot methods because it can't see the Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Try reseating the HDD power and data cables. If that doesn't work try removing the HDD and seeing if it works in another system, or on a USB/SATA adapter.

PXE indicates it is trying to boot off of the Ethernet. Remove that boot device from the boot order in the BIOS setup.

Remove all USB devices and all optical discs (CD/DVD) and try again. This will rule out attempts to boot off of something other than the Hard Disk. If you still can't boot, if you have access to another system with the same O/S, download either Microsoft Defender Offline and let it create...

If you or BioStar is serious about network aggregation, I'd like to see an approved switch and the switch and O/S settings that will make it work. Otherwise a more realistic expectation is for dual homing or firewall use.

Also Congress is responsible for the IRS situation after cutting $300M funding for IT modernization projects several years ago.

Buying 3 years worth of Avast is not a plan to do "absolutely nothing".

A very good and timely article, but if the authors really believed what they said ( ) I doubt they would have written it. Fortunately we can see many forums full of exactly this question (with varied opinions in response.) I also would have liked to have seen the 2005 system be an AMD 64 x2, as...

radium69Dear, Andrew Ku I would like to see bootup times and (real) real world benchmarks. Kevin, does a tested boot time spread from 33.1 seconds to 33.2 seconds between the fastest and slowest SSD's really matter?

I ran a datacenter for over 4 years. I had every brand of drive. They all failed on me. Seagate was in the middle for failure rate. Maxtor (sold during this period) was at the top. At the time WD had a firmware SNAFU on RE2 drives. A little later Seagate had their firmware SNAFU. Shortening the...

Corporate IT likes desktops, because they are easier to chain to the desk and less desirable to steal. Yes, laptops have Kensington locks, but can still be stripped with a screwdriver, while a PC requires the lock tab at the back to be cut. Desktops do not lock the IT department into a cloud...