I was sitting around tonight tweaking XP and decided that it would be a good idea to convert my boot volume to a dynamic disk(we can discuss the merits of this later). I've had plenty of experience ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard ...

If your Mac has multiple bootable disks—via either a partitioned internal disk or external FireWire drives—you’re probably very familiar with the Startup Disk System Preferences panel. As you’d guess ...

The computer didn't come with a restore disk, so I resorted to downloading one from BitTorrent. After all, whether or not the operating system disk is legitimate, I have a valid serial number. However ...