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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In last month’s column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...

Tech pro ThioJoe shows how to create a bootable Windows rescue disk that can recover a system after severe crashes or malware infections. Putin brings war into NATO’s waters Cheerleader learns fate ...

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 ...

At startup, the Windows XP boot loader, NTLDR, reads the information stored to the boot.ini file to determine which operating systems the computer can boot from and uses this data to create a boot ...

Create Bootable Disc Make sure the USB drive is still connected to your Mac. Return to the Utilities folder on your Mac and open the Terminal app. At the Terminal prompt, type one of the following ...

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 ...

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 ...