Accessing the boot menu in OS X is a simple key press, though in some cases it requires specific timing in order to work. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

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 ...

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 ...

Need to reboot you Mac to access a new startup disc or launch with safe mode enabled so you can troubleshoot problems with OS X? Then read on for this handy list of startup options for Mac OS X ...

Mac OS X Lion will debut in July, and this handy set of instructions from Egg Freckles will let you create a boot disc for installation. OS X Lion will be distributed via the Mac App Store, and you ...

I just swapped in a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT for the OEM hard drive on my Core Duo MacBook, and I might be experiencing an issue. I made two bootable backups with SuperDuper before ...

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 ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

hey all,<br><br> i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...