When buying a new computer or laptop, the latest operating system is often already installed. If not, and you have the original media that the OS is on, you can perform the installation yourself. For ...

So I'm upgrading my hard drives from IDE to SATA and want to do a fresh install of Windows XP on the SATA hard drive.<BR><BR>Boot from the XP installation disk, and it doesn't recognize my SATA ...

All my hard drives are on a Promise Ultra 133 controller card that WinXP does not have drivers for. That means during install it won't detect the hard drives. I have the drivers for them, but I don't ...

Few things are as satisfying to watch as a good retrocomputer restoration project – we’re always happy to see someone bring a rusty old Commodore, Apple or Atari back to life. The goal is typically to ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.