One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

GPartd is a free bootable Linux-based CD used specifically for partition management. It can be downloaded from gpartd.org. This utility will work with Linux, Windows and many other types of partitions ...

After covering setting up dual-boot XP/Linux and Vista/Linux systems (where Windows was installed first), I decided it was time to take a look at how easy it is to install Vista onto a PC where a ...

With Windows 10 going away soon, many of us are considering jumping ship to Linux. Thankfully, you don't have to ditch Windows entirely to start using Linux; running two OSes is easier than you think.

Perhaps they referenced this guide to create a bootable Live USB on Windows, allowing them to test drive something like Ubuntu without making any changes to their PC.

If you want to boot into a live Linux environment but don't have a blank CD or thumb drive handy, you can actually boot right from your hard drive using GRUB and previously mentioned Unetbootin.

Can someone explain to me how to make a corel linux boot disk, so instead of making a duel boot system, I can just use the boot disk when I want to use Linux. On the corel website, it says to ...

Linux will boot fine after this, but now windows is lost.<P>In the next attempt (after another disk reformat/win2k install), I used a low level freebie to to split the first 16MB into two hoping ...

Now, we create a bootable restoration CD that can recover an entire system with its specific drivers and application software. A tape restore then overwrites files that have changed since the CD was ...

Apparently, those folks didn't know that with a Linux boot disk and a little patience, you can securely and easily erase your old hard disks.