16th November 2009
Windows Vista boot process is different from what has been used in earlier versions of Windows. After the BIOS is loaded, MBR and then boot sector are accessed. The boot sector further loads the boot blocks and Windows Boot Manager. After this, BCD store ...
18th September 2009
In Windows, a boot volume is the hard disk volume that stores all the system and supporting files of Windows operating system. By default, all the system files of Windows are stored in WINDOWS folder, while its supporting files are stored in WINDOWS/Syste...
17th September 2009
Data storage in basic disk uses partition-oriented disks, while in dynamic disk it uses volume-oriented disks. Windows Disk Management allows you to convert a disk initialized as basic disk to dynamic disk. While doing so, it checks the disk for several ...
16th September 2009
Hard drive is the most critical component of a computer system, which store all of data, application and operating system. Sometimes, the performance of your hard drive might get decreased rapidly. It could be due to operating system registry conflicts, f...
16th September 2009
A damaged or unregistered Windows Installer service in a Windows XP operating system does not allow any program to successfully install in Windows XP. To overcome all the hazards created by damaged Windows Installer service, you will need to make a lot of...
15th September 2009
The hard disk failure is a very hard thing to live with when you have all of your precious data stored on the damaged hard drive and the backup is not available. But you should not panic in such cases, as they can be handled easily. You must know that dat...
05th September 2009
In Windows, the session manager Usetup.exe starts a mini-kernel mode phase called text-mode phase of setup. While the text-mode phase of setup runs, it completes different tasks, like examining the connected hard disks, inspecting the system for basic har...
19th August 2009
When computers and devices are administered on a network as a unit using same set of rules and procedures, their group is known as Domain. Whereas, when all the individual computer systems are connected to a network and send or share data, the computing i...
19th August 2009
Overheating is an extremely serious issue for the computers and their hard drives. Heat is a high contributing factor to hard drive crash and data loss. PCB (Printed Circuit Board), disk platters, spindle motor, disk controller and other internal parts of...
13th August 2009
Resources (like printers, scanners etc.) attached to the computer can be made accessible to the users (connected in the network) by either marking them as shared or by changing their file system permissions or access rights. To provide systematic file sha...
10th August 2009
A Kernel is one of the most important components of every computer system. While a Kernel is hidden under various layers of applications and software, it includes characteristics like computer architecture, goal designing and more. A STOP error message at...
10th August 2009
Most of the computer users create two or more logical partitions to distinguish and store their data in their hard drive. Corruption of data stored in these logical partitions can occur when you attempt to merge the partitions. In most cases of corruption...
06th July 2009
The Memory manager in your computer system creates two dynamically sized memory pools – Paged Pool and NonPaged Pool – that Kernel-mode objects use to allocate system memory. A new device driver installed in your system uses NonPaged pool to fulfill m...
30th June 2009
A Central Processing Unit (CPU) contains a cache memory system that is primarily used for interfacing with the main memory system. The cache memory system includes two cache memories – Primary and Secondary cache. The Primary cache comprises of SRAM (St...
18th June 2009
A computer system may crash due to software or hardware related issues. Hard Drive Recovery can take care of logical plus physical data loss as it can be implemented to extract your lost and deleted data. Software caused data loss might occur due to file ...
