While users may never want to have to rely on them, it's comforting to know that PCs running modern operating systems have fail-safes and recovery modes that can help get the system back up and ...

Safe mode is an important troubleshooting tool. It boots the OS in such a way that it uses the bare minimum files and apps to start and run. This can help you isolate issues, figure out where problems ...

All modern Macs with Apple silicon feature a built-in recovery system called macOS Recovery that includes various utilities that can be accessed before your Mac boots up the operating system. This ...

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...

Starting a decade ago, Apple built the Recovery partition into macOS installations. It’s an operating system in itself—Apple started calling it recoveryOS earlier in 2021. If something goes awry with ...

From the lands to the north, Canadian developer MiniTool Solutions has issued forth Mac Data Recovery 3.0, a recovery utility that seeks to follow in the footsteps of established players like ...

While using these suggestions, make sure you have enough permission on the user account for any needed modification. Boot Camp Assistant might stop responding, or installation failed. Startup disk ...

Wanted to see if other early adopters of Apple hardware are experiencing the same issue I am having. I just ordered up a fancy new MacBook Pro, touch-bar, and it shipped with the new specs just ...

So my boss gives me his kid's macbook because it won't boot (white screen) and asks me if I can recover any data. I'm accustomed to connecting windows laptop drives via pata/usb or sata/usb cable to ...