Recent content by Matthew Sawyer

I've been a longtime fan of Diskeeper. I was introduced to Diskeeper way back in the glory days of Windows NT 4 when the operating system didn't even include a defragmenter. Back in those days, there were many who argued that NTFS volumes didn't need to be defragmented. I continue to run...

I doubt that an external hard drive would cause the problem. The 0x7B (inaccessible boot device) will occur if the system is booting and cannot initialize the expected boot device (typically this is the primary HDD or SSD). A failing HDD or SSD has been known to cause a 0x7B, particularly if bad...

Sometimes a failing hard disk or SSD can cause erratic, intermittent problems. Try installing a tool such as WindowSMART 2012 or Link Removed - Invalid URL. Both can assess hard disk health and SSD health, and will alert you if something is amiss. WindowSMART can deliver alerts on Apple and...

Your question is a little ambiguous, but I'll try to answer it the best I can. There are essentially three "versions" of Hyper-V. The first came out with the Windows Server 2008 product family, which is based on the Windows Vista kernel. The second version of Hyper-V came out with Windows...

I've never used the BlueScreenView tool Titanic mentions. However, some of my colleagues at work have and they think it does a good job. Personally I'm partial to Microsoft's Debugging Tools for Windows, also known as "WinDbg." I've had great success using WinDbg to find the "guilty party" when...