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whitepaper The Dell Flexible Computing Solution for On-Demand Desktop Streaming, based on the Citrix Provisioning Server for Desktops, enables diskless client computers to boot from a network server via well known mechanisms.
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This will allow the author to build a Boot Volume Descriptor which contains an absolute pointer to the Boot Catalog, and will also allow the author to build a Boot Catalog with absolute pointers to the bootable images.
[16 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Re-creating a new Master Boot Record at the first sector of the hard drive - which is what the system BIOS is looking for in order to turn over the startup operation to an operating system - is an easy fix.
[17 Oct 2007]
whitepaper While it isn't always possible to install Knoppix on its own empty hard drive, it certainly removes a lot of the complications that make installation tricky. These steps guides one through installing Knoppix on a drive that is unpartitioned and...
[17 Oct 2007]
whitepaper This paper discusses some of the tricks to use to solve dual-boot configuration issues. Known as dual-booting, this allows the developer to build the Windows XP Embedded operating system in Windows XP Professional, download the operating system to...
[14 Aug 2007]
whitepaper The Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) CD-ROM provides a small but powerful boot environment that you can use for many Windows XP Embedded development tasks. With Windows PE you can bring up a device that has no operating...
[25 Jul 2007]
whitepaper Seagate augments its product portfolio with a Windows Vista-ready hybrid drive, the Momentus 5400 PSD, which will enable consumers to boot almost instantly, load applications quickly, extend battery life and increase the reliability of storage.
[13 Feb 2007]
whitepaper Booting the system showed no controller in the POST messages and therefore no hard drives to boot from. Immediately, they saw the boot process identify the drives and create a logical disk. The authors only reached certainty that the controller was...
[30 Nov 2006]
whitepaper BitLocker enhances data protection by bringing together two major subfunctions: full drive encryption and integrity checking of early boot components. Unencrypted data that is stored on a hard disk can be accessed if the disk is mounted by another...
[21 Nov 2006]
whitepaper The script gathers the following:System Type: For example, "X86-based PC"Description: For example, "AT/AT Compatible"Total system RAMNumber of processors in the systemSystem manufacturerSystem modelOS version descriptionService pack version...
[19 May 2006]
News The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat released Fedora Core 2 in May, many more users reported their systems no longer would boot Windows. No data on the Windows side was destroyed and some manual hard drive reconfiguration fixed the...
[09 Jun 2004]
whitepaper This feature allows the CPU to boot an operating system across the Ethernet LAN as opposed to booting from a locally connected hard disk drive. The remote Ethernet boot feature is implemented by having an on-board Ethernet controller and associated...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper What I mean is, if you use a Win98 boot disk to SYS a drive, (to make a hard drive bootable) and then try to install any version of Win95 it will fail with a very weird error! The first thing you must understand is what operating system to use to...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Both assume a good working boot disk. This assumes that you only have one hard drive and that you plan to use only one partition i.e.drive "C". Down the road I plan to add a page discussing disk partitioning schemes.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Both assume a good working boot disk. This assumes that you only have one hard drive and that you plan to use only one partition i.e.drive "C". Down the road I plan to add a page discussing disk partitioning schemes.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper The following virus classes are detailed: MBR viruses (on floppy diskette and hard drive), boot record viruses (on floppy diskette and hard drive), direct-action file viruses, memory-resident file viruses, multipartite viruses (which have both...
[24 Feb 2004]
Comment The basic program was working but it just would not boot up from my back-up files. Rebooting revealed even more problems which again culminated in a crash, while trying to reboot saw the machine unable to locate the hard drive.
[25 Sep 2003]
whitepaper It hooks INT 13h and writes itself to the boot sector of diskettes and MBR sector of hard drive that are accessed. Gwar is a very dangerous memory resident encrypted and stealth boot virus. From January 1st till 7th the virus displays a message and...
[14 Aug 2003]
whitepaper It hooks INT 13h and writes itself to boot sectors of the floppy disks and to the first boot sector of the hard drive. This is a dangerous memory resident boot virus. While infecting a sector, the virus patches the code of the standard boot routine...
[14 Aug 2003]
whitepaper After the Trojan has executed, the computer will not boot from the hard drive. Description: Trojan.ZeroBoot attempts to overwrites the boot sector of the hard disk with zeros. Name: Trojan.ZeroBoot Discovered on: September 10, 2001
[14 Aug 2003]
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