If you’re a sysadmin, you may have noticed a somewhat annoying trend: computers — especially servers — rarely ship with floppy drives any more, and yet BIOS updates still often require that you boot ...

Check out this new 2-in-1 USB key from HP, the USB Floppy Drive Key. The USB Floppy Drive Key is a useful USB gadget as it can be read as a standard USB drive or as a floppy drive. This means you can ...

What is a boot disk and why do I need one? A boot disk is a floppy or a CD that you can use to boot your computer into a state in which you can use it to fix a problem. There will be times that your ...

Trying to get started with VMware’s virtualization app but lack an optical drive on your server? Here are the steps to transform the ISO into a bootable flash drive for installing the hypervisor.

Back in the day, the floppy drive was all the rage. Being able to transport your data from one PC to another, all thanks to this small, square thing that could usually fit right into your pocket. Of ...

N.B.: Some laptops allow you to set the boot devices using a Windows application. Toshiba, for example, does this with some of their laptops. The application is either a standalone application or an ...

Trying to get started with VMware’s virtualization app but lack an optical drive on your Apple computer? Here’s how to transform the ISO into a bootable flash drive for installing the hypervisor. With ...