Q. A techie know-it-all in my office tells me I should create an emergency start-up disk. However, he’s also the kind of guy who wears a belt and suspenders—right? So should I ignore him? A. Ignore ...

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 ...

I swear every time I try Linux .... Grrrrrr! Ubuntu 12.10 live cd. I'm simply trying to make a bootable USB thumb drive. That's it. First attempt: live cd boots okay, I insert my (fat32 formatted and ...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

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 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 ...

Earlier this week, Alsoft released DiskWarrior 3.0.3 which boasts Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) compatibility. Problems booting from DiskWarrior 3.0.3 burned startup CDs Several users are reporting problems ...