If you want to make copy of a DVD but you don't have a blank DVD in hand, you can create a DVD disc image and save it to your hard drive. The disc image can be then burned to DVD readable by a living ...

Previously we created an installation image from a fresh copy of the El Capitan installer. This week we’re going to use a tool called AutoDMG to install OS X (or is that macOS?!?) and a couple of ...

I’ve written quite a bit about installing Lion (OS X 10.7) and about the benefits of creating a bootable installer disc or drive. While the latter process isn’t prohibitively difficult, it’s still a ...

OS X 10.8 is only available online, but you can create your own standalone install drive for it if needed. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: I am running 64-bit Windows 7 on a computer with a 250-gigabyte solid-state drive and a 1-terabyte hard drive. Disk 0, the SSD drive, contains two partitions — Data (the system volume created by ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it. Retro computing is popular these days, and one aspect of vintage ...