Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

I have Norton Ghost 2003 and it claims it will create a bootable DVD and write the image on it. Which is correct, except that the image (in my case) always fails the verify and therefore can't be ...

When something goes wrong with your Mac, it's a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy. Here's how to do it. The short answer to how you ...

Here's a problem I'm dealing with that I'm sure someone here has an answer for. I've made bootable CDs before with no problem using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3x and 4x. I noticed for the first time the ...

We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

To improve system security your M1 Mac won't boot if the internal solid state drive (SSD) completely dies. While there's been very little information released by Apple on their SSD architecture -- I'm ...

This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...