With Mac OS X Lion and a new piece of free software, it’s easier than ever to create a USB keychain that you can boot from.

Step-by-step guide to completing a clean install of Mac OS X Yosemite using a flash drive.

On Monday Apple finally unveiled to the world the next iteration of OS X, Mavericks. A developer preview of the new operating system is available now as a Mac App Store download for registered ...

Why wait for August and pay Apple a premium? If you have an 8GB USB key and you can download the Apple OS X Lion installer from the Mac App Store, you can make your own bootable USB key. It's ...

Step-by-step guide explaining how to make a bootable OS X El Capitan beta USB installer drive.

Follow the steps in this article and create your own install USB boot disk of any version of OS X (Lion or later), preferably the latest version at the time you sell your Mac.

3. Forcing boot into Mac OS X This one may be beneficial if your system is constantly booting into a secondary non-OS X operating system.

Now that Apple has released OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you might want to consider creating a USB install drive for clean installs and future use.