I am unable to reinstall Windows XP on my IBM Thinkpad A22e, which does not have a cd drive. I removed the 2.5 HHD from the Laptop, installed it in a usb enclosure and tried the method suggested by ...

I have an old laptop with a busted CD drive but it seems to boot to the HDD (I put an old Windows drive in the slot and it sees Windows there but crashes during boot). I don't have an option to boot ...

Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...

March 3, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually ...

Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey 5,200-rpm ...