If your Mac has multiple bootable disks—via either a partitioned internal disk or external FireWire drives—you’re probably very familiar with the Startup Disk System Preferences panel. As you’d guess ...

Last week, I posted a video on how-to create an SD card startup disk for the new MacBook Pros, the ones with the built-in SD card slot. I got several e-mail responses to that video, all of them asking ...

There are several utilities you can use on your Mac to secure it at startup. Here's how to use them to keep your Mac and data safe. Computer security is an important topic in today's digital world and ...

It's that time again. Time for me to check out the current status of creating an emergency boot drive ? this time one with Leopard installed. Let's cut right to the chase: the ease of creating these ...

Apple computers have a unique boot option called Target Disk Mode which allows access to a system’s hard drives via Firewire cable in older Macs and a Thunderbolt cable in newer models. You access ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

Mac OS X 10.4.3 includes a fairly significant update to Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities). First, the new release can verify your computer's ...