Rick's Daily Tips

Q&A: How is my PC booting from an empty hard drive?

Posted on August 23, 2022

Question from Marvin: I read your article about upgrading a computer by adding an SSD to make it run faster.

The following weekend I went to Best Buy and bought a 1TB SSD and cloned the contents of the existing 500GB hard disk onto it.

I then wiped the hard drive and installed the SSD in the computer, leaving the now-blank hard drive in place to store my data files on.

Everything works perfectly but something has me baffled. When I look in the BIOS it says the hard drive is set as the boot drive.

How is this machine booting into Windows when the boot drive is blank?

Posted on August 23, 2022

Question from Gary: In addition to your awesome blog I also read the one that Kim Komando writes.

I recently read an article in which she discussed several things that can indicate that a website is outdated.

Then she said something that both puzzles and concerns me.

Posted on August 20, 2022

Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter

As you probably know by now, the scammers never seem to take a break from Facebook.

They’re at it again, and this time they’re impersonating the employers of Facebook users.

As usual, there are several variations of this scam, but they all work pretty much the same way…