My brother called me with a question I didn't know the answer to.<BR>The problem:<BR>His friend has a laptop with a 6 Gig (I think) hard drive. He wants a more space and doesn't know what to do.

I'm looking to get an external bootable HDD to plug into my company laptop to run its own OS and be completely independent from the "in laptop" environment. I know my laptop supports bootable USB, ...

Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

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This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...