One of the effective troubleshooting steps, to fix boot issues is to repair Master Boot Record or MBR in Windows 11/10. One of the common reasons why an MBR can get corrupted is malware infections.

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a special type of boot sector, placed at the very beginning of the storage device. It tells your computer what to do when it starts. It also contains information on how ...

While installing Windows 8, Ragav RG converted his hard drive to the new GPT partitioning format. He asked about its advantages. Before it can load an operating system, your PC needs a way of know ...

Though not very common, Master Boot Record (MBR) encrypting or modifying ransomware can be disastrous when they hit. This is because they will not bother encrypting the actual files and instead ...

Cisco Systems’ Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called ...

A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer's master ...