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 ...

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 ...

If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them. Apple's macOS ...

MacBooks set up with a dual-boot system that includes Mac OS X and Windows 7 automatically boot to the Mac OS X operating system by default. Business users often need to use the Windows system more ...

Partitioning the drive you keep your OS on can prevent disasters and let you recover quickly in the event of one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

How to create a bootable USB to install OS X Mavericks Your email has been sent Jesus Vigo goes over the steps to create a bootable USB to install OS X 10.9 (aka ...

How best to back up ONLY Mac OS 9.2.2?<BR><BR>My OS 9.2.2 install now has a Sonnet extension that allows me to run a 1.7 GHz 7447A. I have no use for OS 9, but it'd be nice to have a backup of it ...

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 ...

When the computer is misbehaving and you realize that your trusty anti-virus was almost blind against attacks, the only thing left to do is to format, and reinstall the operating system. Be it Mac OS ...

Mozilla, the makers of the Firefox browser, hopes to revolutionize the modern operating system with Boot to Gecko, a universal-platform OS primary aimed at mobile devices such as smartphones and ...