Apart from the default startup disk, Mac computers can be set to start up from a different disk like an external drive, network volume, or a USB flash drive. This article explains the process for ...

When something goes wrong with your Mac, it's a boon to have a separate, external drive that you can work from — but Apple no longer makes that easy. Here's how to do it. The short answer to how you ...

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 ...

Apple has long offered a way for you to access the startup volume on one Mac as a drive that appears on another that’s directly connected. Until recently, that methods was known as Target Disk Mode, ...

Change Startup Disk 1.03 is an update to this utility that allows you to bypass Startup Disk System Preferences and change the startup disk. One Button Booting from Classic to Mac OS X On a similar ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you can’t get into macOS, there are a few tricks to try. If you can’t get into macOS, there are a few tricks ...

To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

James Duff reports routinely inaccurate reporting of OS version numbers through Mac OS 9's Startup Disk control panel: "In a nutshell, my Startup Disk control panel reports the wrong system version in ...

Apple includes a Safe mode in its Mac startup options that can help you work out if a problem is being caused by software that loads as your Mac boots up. It's particularly useful for resolving issues ...