My MSI Z97 motherboard (updated to the latest bios) seems to regard all of my bootable devices - SSD, HD, DVD-RW, flash drives - as legacy only. Specifically, if I switch to "Windows 8/8.1/10 mode", ...

Upgrading a computer's boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you're like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

It has been some time since I have written about installing Linux on systems with UEFI firmware, and I have recently gotten several questions about how to do this. So I think this is a good time for a ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...