There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

So, last night I'm about to upgrade the kernel on my Debian woody system and I check to make sure I have a boot disk in case I mess everything up. Somewhere since I've installed woody, I've lost the ...

It seems that the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros does count as a bootable device; all you have to do is install OS X onto a card, set it as the default boot device, and you’re good to go. Why ...

I am now asking friends and family to keep a spare CD or USB Flash Drive on which to keep a LIVE version of a linux distribution, why do i do this? Well there are a ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

So, I've got a G5, and its internal drive seems to have been somewhat corrupted. When it tries to boot, it just shows the spinner for 15 minutes or so as the fans grow ever-louder. I can boot off the ...

I’ve written quite a bit about installing Lion (OS X 10.7) and about the benefits of creating a bootable installer disc or drive. While the latter process isn’t prohibitively difficult, it’s still a ...

If when you boot your Windows 11/10 computer and you receive the No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed error message, then this post may help you. In ...

FireWire target disk mode has saved my bacon countless times. If you’re not familiar with FireWire target disk mode it transforms a Mac equipped with a FireWire port (either 400 or 800) into an ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. Finally, we come to a boot disc that offers useful tools, is easyto use, and can be created from ...

Users slammed the Microsoft Surface tablet over the glaring disk space consumption issue. They believed, that the device’s operating system, ARM-compatible version of Windows called Windows RT ...