First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

Apple's BootCamp 4 FAQ seems to imply that booting from an external HDD is now possible. 11. Why doesn't my external FireWire, USB, or Thunderbolt disk appear in the Microsoft Windows Startup Disk ...

Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

If you have a bootable USB drive, you can boot your Windows 10 computer from the USB drive. The easiest way to boot from USB is to open the Advanced Startup Options by holding the Shift key when you ...

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...

The firmware included with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.2 introduced the possibility of booting from a USB device: before that, it was only possible to boot from an SD or microSD card. But ...

Apple Inc.'s new Apple TV runs a modified version of the Mac OS X operating system that hackers have already managed to extract and boot on an Intel-based MacBook and an external USB drive.

It's handy to have an external, bootable macOS Ventura installer, but you practically have to fight Apple to make one. Here's what you have to do. In Apple's ideal world, you let your Mac update ...

Mac OS X 10.2.6 can cold-boot correctly from external FireWire disks (in our case, a WiebeTech 20 GB) using some Macs, but never using other Macs, such as the iMac G3/700. In older iMac (and others ...

Currently, Tunic only installs official flavors of Ubuntu and Linux Mint. No support for other Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distros, Windows 7/8 and MBR setup. Error ...

Creating a bootable USB drive is a common task for installing or repairing operating systems, but verifying its bootability without restarting the computer can be challenging. Here are several methods ...