So, I've got a G5, and its internal drive seems to have been somewhat corrupted. When it tries to boot, it just shows the spinner for 15 minutes or so as the fans grow ever-louder. I can boot off the ...

In last month's column, I described the hurdles that Mac OS X puts in your way when you try to create a bootable disc, especially a custom bootable CD, DVD or flash drive. I offered various solutions ...

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 ...

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R-Drive Image is a lightweight, but feature-rich, drive imaging program with very reliable performance and an improved boot disc. The more R-Drive Image changes, the more it stays the same. Now up to ...

Discover the best disk imaging software for data backup, disaster recovery, system migration, and system deployment purposes, as we analyse the best providers in the business. Disk imaging software is ...

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 ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...

Remember the good old days, when PCs were young and programs weresmall?You could put DOS and a bunch of useful tools on a singlefloppy disk, which always held a place of honor near your computerfor ...

Microsoft has made Windows 11 available for all users. Windows 10 users can upgrade their computers to Windows 11 for free, provided their computers meet the hardware requirements. One of these ...

Still, if all you want is a backup copy of a bootable disc, it is easy enough to do. It's especially easy if you have disc-duplicating software (such as Toast Titanium) and two optical drives.