Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or more for each one? Absolutely not! Just make your own bootable install disk using our handy tutorial.

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.

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 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 ...

As a disk editor, Disk Probe lets you manually repair a system's master boot record (MBR) after a viral attack. If you aren't up to the challenge of manually rewriting a master boot record, you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...