Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...

Creating a Mac OS X emergency boot disk is a great idea for any person who regularly repairs Apple Mac computers. How to create a Mac OS X boot disk is a complicated process, but this step-by-step ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Whether it's for tech troubleshooting or reinstalling your system if the worst happens, having a bootable USB drive with plenty of disc imagesis essential for getting your PC back in action. Most ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25537273#p25537273:i88v4p9p said: barefootguru[/url]":i88v4p9p]For Mountain Lion I just ran the installer to put a ...