My windows install was giving me a lot of grief today, (kept freezing while formatting the hard drive) so I popped in a Mandrake 8.0 disc just to see if the install would complete.<BR><BR>Anyways, now ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

I used to have Windows 2000 on my primary partition, XP on the second and my data on the third. I formatted the primary partition with the NTFS file system, after which I put back the NTLDR and ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

May 7, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Once you're finished, you'll be able to reboot into your secondary OS and run it natively, or run it in your ...

Linux-Windows dual boot systems don't have an easy way to access Linux files while booted into Windows. Some tools exist, but they don't offer perfect solutions. I've found using a shared partition ...