You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

macOS Sierra is now available for compatible Mac computers Apple Apple's next major update to its desktop operating system is now available for Mac computers introduced in late 2009 or later, as a ...

Your Mac is failing to boot up properly due to some unknown glitch, so there’s no way to access the operating system or even get your data off the hard drive. A bootable USB drive, which contains a ...

In response to my story on how to restore Apple OS X Lion via the Internet, a number of readers wrote in to voice concern about their newfound reliance on broadband Internet connectivity. And with ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

At its annual WWDC, Apple unveiled a new version of desktop operating system, OS X v10.11 El Capitan, expected to refine the Mac experience and improve system performance. Designed on the lines of ...

Bootable backups have long been part of good practice, but they have not worked reliably for a long time. It seems to be completely broken in the latest macOS. Cloning the startup drive apparently ...