During the process of replacing an internal hard drive I somehow managed to mess up my desktop PC, resulting in a situation where it will no longer boot up properly or load Windows from the SSD boot ...

If you see the following screen when you start your Windows 11/10 computer, then this post will be able to help you. The screen is known to appear in HP PCs with UEFI and offers the option to fall ...

Users of Windows 8 will experience a different way of accessing their PC's boot options, which Microsoft described on Tuesday. Windows 8, which is currently available at the beta stage, boots so fast ...

Following my recent posts concerning my experiences with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and secure booting, here's a Q&A with Mark Doran, the UEFI forum president. In general I agree ...

Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of ...

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 ...

The developers of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit have improved the malware with Secure Boot bypass capabilities that allow it to infect even fully patched Windows 11 systems. BlackLotus is the first ...