Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

I don’t think I’m alone, here. Even among casual users, the optical drive goes almost entirely unused. A friend of mine used it to install some of their existing software on a new laptop ...

Installing Windows from a USB flash drive is more convenient and faster than optical discs. In part four of our "What to do with your USB flash drive" series, we'll show you how to configure your ...

To be clear, both these approaches will only show you how to put Windows 10 on a USB flash drive. If you want to actually install Windows 10, you’ll still have to use the USB drive, Windows ...

My computer KPed mid-install while running the 10.6.8 update. The system is pretty much hosed at this point. Is it possible to mount the drive on another mac and run the update on the bad drive?

x Speed is relative to either a 1x CR-ROM drive (150KB/s) or a 1x DVD-ROM drive (1,350KB/s) Tests were run on a Dual 2.0GHz G5 running 10.4.10 and a Sony DRU-840U.

To download ChromeOS, you'll need a flash drive with at least 8GB of storage, but a larger one is recommended if you're using the OS from your flash drive.