External hard drives are convenient, but in rare cases some people have found that keeping them attached to their Macs at boot may result in a system hang. External hard disks have become a very ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

Truths about dual booting I learned the hard way.

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...

The first step is to reset the BIOS to the factory default settings. Press the correct BIOS key to enter your Acer BIOS, then find the option to restore all BIOS Settings to their defaults. Save and ...

MacBooks set up with a dual-boot system that includes Mac OS X and Windows 7 automatically boot to the Mac OS X operating system by default. Business users often need to use the Windows system more ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

The final release of Linux Mint 17 (Qiana) was made available over the weekend. The release announcements (Cinnamon/MATE) give a brief overview of the release. Two particularly important bits of ...