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 am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- --] i need to use a tricky disk to fdisk, format, and load the cdrom drivers before running the o/s setup.

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 ...

Your Mac will slow down increasingly as your startup disk becomes more and more full. If you fill it up completely, your Mac might not even boot. That’s why it’s essential to maintain adequate free ...

Norton Personal Firewall 2.0.1 is an update to this security software. Use Live Update to get it. Change Startup Disk 1.11 is an AppleScript that allows the user to bypass the OS X System Preferences ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you need to better organize your hard drive or resolve disk errors, Disk Utility is the tool for the job. Built into macOS, Disk Utility is tucked away in the Utilities folder, which is found ...