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 ...

Apple only sells OS X Mountain Lion as a digital download in the Mac App Store. The installer weighs in at a hefty 4.05GB, but the good news is that you can install your copy of Mountain Lion on all ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

Have a bootable Linux USB recovery disk ready for system recovery, file access, and malware removal. Use it for managing partitions, troubleshooting, diagnostics, privacy, and security to maintain ...

I need to update the firmware of the DVD drive in my laptop (Thinkpad T30 2366-92U); to do this I have to boot in DOS and run the firmware update. The catch-22 is that my DVD and floppy drive can't ...

With OS X 10.7, a.k.a. Lion, Apple stopped shipping physical copies of its operating system and instead opted for electronic delivery via its then-brand-new App Store. For the first time you could ...

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 ...

Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...

Downloaded the new Fedora core test release. It installs fine but since I don't want it to install GRUB on the MBR I had it install on the partition. In older versions of Red Hat it would prompt you ...

however, the boot floppy that it makes is an MS-DOS disk. You cannot boot with this disk and then view files on an NTFS volume. the NTFS disks to the floppy, or to any FAT 16 hard disks that you might ...

ESET SysRescue Live Creator is a handy tool for creating a bootable antivirus rescue CD or USB key. There’s no shortage of competition in this area, of course, but Live Creator has one or two useful ...

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 ...