Get more out of your Mac computer by dual booting it with two operating systems rather than purchasing a new computer. Savings costs is key for a successful small business. Apple's Boot Camp -- ...

The OS X 10.7 upgrade should work independently of your Boot Camp installations, but some people may find that after upgrading to Lion their Boot Camp installations are no longer accessible. In some ...

No idea why the SSD isn't listed as a boot option. The only thing I can think of is that the BCD on the 4TB drive isn't configured properly, or the boot files didn't get copied properly to the EFI ...

For anyone wondering how to do this from OS X, you can mount the EFI partition using the mount command. It's a FAT partition, but isn't marked as such, so you'll need to specify a partition type, for ...

If you're a Mac user, you may have already used Apple's Boot Camp to get Windows on your system for those must-have programs. With a fast new Ubuntu out, however, you might want to give it a try—but ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives. There are a lot of backup utilities available, but the simplest backup tool is available ...

Reader Steve S. is finally ready to complete his transition from Windows to the Mac. He writes: When I got my iMac three years ago, I was moving from a Windows-based experience. Naturally, I made a ...