"Please insert your Wii Startup Disc. This will set up your Wii console." The mysterious Wii Startup Disc that was listed on the back of the Wii box has been summoned in public. While glancing over ...

Accessing the boot menu in OS X is a simple key press, though in some cases it requires specific timing in order to work. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

Your Mac will slow down increasingly as your startup disk becomes more and more full. If you fill it up completely, your Mac might not even boot. That’s why it’s essential to maintain adequate free ...

Need to reboot you Mac to access a new startup disc or launch with safe mode enabled so you can troubleshoot problems with OS X? Then read on for this handy list of startup options for Mac OS X ...

Last week I wrote a few tips about disk encryption, but I didn’t write about what to do with the startup disk on your Mac. I cannot think of any reason you shouldn’t encrypt your startup disk after ...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

Repairing startup disk while booted from Tiger DVD (or other Mac OS X volume) can resolve issues We previously reported that a number of issues caused by Security Update 2005-007 v.1.1 can be avoided ...

Last week, I posted a video on how-to create an SD card startup disk for the new MacBook Pros, the ones with the built-in SD card slot. I got several e-mail responses to that video, all of them asking ...

When you buy a new Mac laptop, iMac, or Mac mini, the internal startup hard drive is set up with one partition—that is, one large section of storage space. You can use Disk Utility to partition the ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...