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 ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

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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 ...

Following up on our recent item (Apple! Are you listening?) requesting a utility to make customized bootable CDs that launch applications the user selects: Use BootCD Ask and ye shall receive! Charles ...

Knowing how to boot from your laptop's disc drive is essential. Hard drive crashes and viruses can put your company's data at risk, and various programs designed to rescue files or remove malware are ...

Windows XP takes up relatively little space on a hard drive and uses fewer system resources than recent versions of Windows. For computers with limited memory and processing power as well as no ...

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 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 ...