Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

Switching between OS X partitions usually requires you to either manually change your startup disk or hold down the Option key when you boot, but iDownloadBlog reader ...

Reader Mapa is interested in upgrading to Mavericks but has a Boot Camp partition. The reader writes: I am still running Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a 2009 MacBook Pro with aBoot Camp partition that ...

Every new release of macOS comes with its share of undetected bugs, but most early adopters will tell you that Catalina has had more than most. One way of avoiding a disastrous upgrade to Apple's ...

Looking at a T620 server with a RAID 1 + RAID 1 setup and Windows Server 2008 Standard. Dell gives the following options for the OS partition: None 40GB Microsoft OS Partition Override add 80GB ...

Windows “helped” and my Linux files paid for it.