Is your Mac about to crash? Here's how to create a bootable USB flash drive with a working version of macOS, so you can access your hard drive in the event of a glitch. Lance is an experienced writer ...

There are situations where Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC will not boot no matter what you do. In this situation, the only thought would be to recover important data. This post looks at solutions that ...

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...

If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them. Apple's macOS ...

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it ...

The trick with using Ventoy is to put the operating system ISOs you know you'll use. There's no point keeping tons of old ISO ...

Learn how to wipe a hard drive in Windows 7 safely using built-in tools, Command Prompt, or third-party software.

This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25537273#p25537273:i88v4p9p said: barefootguru[/url]":i88v4p9p]For Mountain Lion I just ran the installer to put a ...

All this is assuming you can still boot into Windows 11/10 in a regular way. If you cannot, the only way is to use a bootable USB drive. You can then use the advanced recovery. Reset Windows Format ...

If you have a computer running Windows 11, the day will come when you may have to upgrade the hard drive because it's running ...