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 ...

So if you could find some IMG files on the 'Net, I suppose that could make a standard MS boot CD too. <P>But since DFT is a floppy disk image, you'll either have to use the floppy disk or luck out and ...

I have Roxio EZ CD creator 5. I have a windows XP disk. My PC will not boot from it. <P>Can I burn a copy of my disc that would be bootable? I'd also like to make a bootable copy of my Win98SE ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

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 ...

Regarding yesterday's item on using Disk Copy 6.5 to create a bootable CD (currently accessible only to developers), we received several replies: Use Software Restore Bob Jenkins confirms that you ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard ...

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 ...

Despite all of your preventive measures and the best-laid plans, sometimes the worst-case scenario happens: Your primary file server crashes right before your regularly scheduled backup window, and ...