Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Tool Makes External Lion Boot Recovery Drives

Apple has released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a small utility that provides the ability to create an external bootable recovery drive...

How to Install & Dual Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.6 Snow Leopard

Mac OS X 10.7 Developer Preview  can be installed and ran alongside Mac OS X 10.6 on the same drive, all you need to do is parti...

How to Make a Bootable OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion USB Install Drive

S X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be offered exclusively through the App Store, familiar territory for Apple since OS X Lion was prov...

How to Boot a Mac from an External Drive or Alternate Startup Disk

Certain situations require a Mac to be booted from an external boot volume, rather than the primary startup disk. There are plenty of reas...

How to Change the Mac Startup Drive on Boot

A Macs startup drive can be changed during system boot by  holding down the OPTION key , start holding down Option the moment you hear the...

How to Boot a Mac in Target Disk Mode

Target Disk Mode is a very handy feature available to use with Mac’s that have Firewire or Thunderbolt ports, and it allows you to use o...

How to Boot a Mac from a CD / DVD

You can boot your Mac from a disk in the CD / DVD drive by inserting the disk into the drive and on system boot  holding down the C key ...

How to Boot into OS X Mountain Lion & Lion Recovery HD Partition on a Mac

All Macs with OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks have a bootable Recovery partition that can be accessed in case of system probl...

How to Make a Bootable OS X Mavericks USB Install Drive

Just like other recent major Mac updates, OS X Mavericks arrives as an app that wants to update the current OS X installation, and with a ...