This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Making a bootable macOS Big Sur USB drive is a quick and clean way to install a fresh copy of macOS on your Mac. This hands-on tutorial is valid for both the public and developer beta versions of ...

Adaptec driver "known issues" Regarding the newly released OS X beta drivers for Adaptec SCSI cards (mentioned here last Friday), Adaptec also has posted a "known issues" page for these drivers. Among ...

I recently downloaded and installed v3.0.6 onto my 9.2.2 "TechTool Partition." I basically use IT instead of a CD when trouble-shooting / performing maintenance on my other OS 9 partition. But I've ...

If your Chromebook does not boot into the operating system anymore, you can create a recovery USB flash drive and use it to reinstall a copy of Chrome OS on your computer. Google provides a tool ...

If you have more than one Mac you want to upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina but don't want to waste so much bandwidth downloading it for each machine, one option is to create a bootable installer on a ...

Ok I just spent 5 hours restoring my OS X 10.1.5 install to my FW HD from my backup tapes using Retrospect. I go into OS X's Startup Disk pane and can't select it. I open the FW disk and the system ...