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 ...

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 ...

Bootable hard drives. Creating a bootable hard drive in Mac OS X is not difficult, but is still a significant undertaking. The most common method is to boot from a Mac OS X Install disc, run the ...

We previously noted several limitations of Mac OS X 10.3's Disk Utility, which is supposed to replicate much of the functionality present in Mac OS X 10.2's Disk Copy. Among the noted limitations are ...

Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined. Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

I managed to get my hands on a Mac Pro 3.1, and I'm wanting to play around with it. One of the drives is dying if not already dead. The system doesn't boot, instead it's flashing the folder + question ...

Creating a Mac OS X emergency boot disk is a great idea for any person who regularly repairs Apple Mac computers. How to create a Mac OS X boot disk is a complicated process, but this step-by-step ...