There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

Alas, the days when Windows came with a program for creating a useful emergency bootfloppy are long gone. And those old boot floppies wouldn’t help with XP orVista–even if you PC had a floppy drive.

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced full disk encryption, called FileVault 2, it was a huge improvement over the original FileVault, which only encrypts a user’s home folder. And because of the ...