Change Startup Disk 1.03 is an update to this utility that allows you to bypass Startup Disk System Preferences and change the startup disk. One Button Booting from Classic to Mac OS X On a similar ...

If you have an aging Intel-based iMac or Mac mini that’s slowing down like an old codger, today’s featured iMac setup shows a relatively simple way to revitalize your machine and keep using it. All ...

Last week I wrote a few tips about disk encryption, but I didn’t write about what to do with the startup disk on your Mac. I cannot think of any reason you shouldn’t encrypt your startup disk after ...

If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them. Apple's macOS ...

There are several utilities you can use on your Mac to secure it at startup. Here's how to use them to keep your Mac and data safe. Computer security is an important topic in today's digital world and ...

I just swapped in a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT for the OEM hard drive on my Core Duo MacBook, and I might be experiencing an issue. I made two bootable backups with SuperDuper before ...

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 ...

Last week, I posted a video on how-to create an SD card startup disk for the new MacBook Pros, the ones with the built-in SD card slot. I got several e-mail responses to that video, all of them asking ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. Finally, we come to a boot disc that offers useful tools, is easyto use, and can be created from ...

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 ...

hey all,<br><br> i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...