Following up on our recent item (Apple! Are you listening?) requesting a utility to make customized bootable CDs that launch applications the user selects: Use BootCD Ask and ye shall receive! Charles ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...

I'm trying to make a bootable CD that boots to the image of 2.88 Meg DOS floppy and I'm not having much luck. Here's a quick run down of the steps I've taken.<P>1) Create a 1.44 Meg floppy disk that ...

hey all,<br><br> i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

Apple only sells OS X Mountain Lion as a digital download in the Mac App Store. The installer weighs in at a hefty 4.05GB, but the good news is that you can install your copy of Mountain Lion on all ...

We all use various ways to enhance the security of our operating systems. If your system is subjected to various removable disks in a day, then it becomes a matter of primary concern that you should ...

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 ...

Sometimes you may run into a situation where your system fails to respond correctly. Under such circumstances, you may find booting into another OS as your best option. Sometimes, troubleshooting PC ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

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 ...