The normal disk formatting scheme you would use for booting an Intel-based Mac is GUID. For a proper dual-boot device, however, we cannot use this format.

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 ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

You grab your Mac OS X CD or DVD, insert it, press the reset button, hold down the "C" key and expect to be back up and running -- but the system still refuses to properly boot.

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...

Creating a bootable Windows USB drive used to be a chore, but today, one solution can pretty-well suit most people. However, there are times when a flash drive has some quirk that prevents it from ...

Therefore, it is suggested that you create the bootable Windows System Repair disc, which you can boot off of to access these troubleshooting and recovery tools when you need them.

I'm thinking of making a new copy of my Win2K Pro disk. I'd like to update it with Service Pack 1 and then add a "goodies" subdirectory with things like WinRAR, manufacturers printer drivers ...

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 ...