It's handy to have an external, bootable macOS Ventura installer, but you practically have to fight Apple to make one. Here's what you have to do. In Apple's ideal world, you let your Mac update ...

What appears to be a bug in macOS 27 is preventing a number of users from selecting alternate partitions or drives to boot ...

So how does all of this compare to the situation with Mac OS X today? Here's how: Bootable hard drives. Creating a bootable hard drive in Mac OS X is not difficult, but is still a significant ...

Do you use multiple partitions on your Mac? Maybe you use Apple’s Boot Camp tool to boot your Mac into Windows occasionally, or maybe you’ve got a Mac Pro loaded with four drives partitioned into 16 ...

While users may never want to have to rely on them, it's comforting to know that PCs running modern operating systems have fail-safes and recovery modes that can help get the system back up and ...

The software will be incorporated into Apple's Leopard OS 10.5, and beta users looking to continue using the software will have to download an update from the Leopard OS installation disk to continue ...

I've bought several of the Patriot Xporter XT flash drives from NewEgg and they're definitely faster that other flash drives that I've used. I wouldn't call them blazing, but fast enough. I use them ...

In last month's column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...