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 ...

A rescue USB saves time and effort when reinstalling the OS or troubleshooting. For effectiveness, it is recommended that you ...

Sometimes you need to access an older version of macOS, but Apple doesn't make that easy. Mist is an app that can download ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux, open source, and gaming. You've got one of these lying around. Just make it has a 4GB capacity ...

The all too known process of creating Windows bootable USB/CD using the Media Creation Tool (MCT) works only from Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 11/10. Hence, the need to show you how to ...

Instead, he used a simple USB FTDI device to talk to the Apple disk drive. The FTDI device in question is a UM232H chip that takes a USB connection and turns it into an SPI bus. Of course the Ap ...

USB drives are incredibly useful, both storing files for transport between different computers and for creating bootable drives that let us use or install other operating systems on our computers.