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 ...

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.

A41202813 asked the Answer Line forum for the best way to turn a bootable optical disc, like a CD or DVD, into a file that you could burn back into a bootable disc. Without the word bootable, the ...

There might come a time when you feel the need to burn images to a USB stick or an SD card for whatever reason. Should that time show its ugly head, you may be wondering what type of tool is good ...

Jsmithhere asked the Desktops forum about booting from CDs, DVDs, and flash drives. When you boot your PC, it generally loads an operating system (such as Windows) from a hard drive or SSD. But you ...

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 ...

When your small business creates a bootable disk for its Mac computers from ISO disk images, there's a difference between an ISO file and the disk image it contains. If you burn the file to a blank ...

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, ...

The software does one thing—make a complete image of a disk partition—and it does it exceptionally well. ShadowProtect SPX can restore a complete system after a hardware failure or a malware attack, ...

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 ...