Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. One of the convenient features in early versions of ...

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the Installer utility and install a new copy of Mac OS X. The other common alternative is to create a bootable (mirrored or cloned) ...

Did Santa (or perhaps Chanu-klaus) bring you a new PC this year? That’s great! You must have been a good little user. While I’m sure you’re eager to start using the new system, it’s worth taking a ...

Mac OS X Lion will debut in July, and this handy set of instructions from Egg Freckles will let you create a boot disc for installation. OS X Lion will be distributed via the Mac App Store, and you ...

If you already have a Windows installation disc, you may not need to create a System Repair or Recovery Disc in Windows 11 or Windows 10. But if you do not have one, then it is better to create and ...