This article is for people whose Macs came preinstalled with Mavericks. If you can download the Mavericks installer from the Mac App Store, you should instead use our standard instructions for ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Your Mac is failing to boot up properly due to some unknown glitch, so there’s no way to access the operating system or even get your data off the hard drive. A bootable USB drive, which contains a ...

For the past few weeks, developers have had access to pre-release versions of OS X 10.1 in two ways: (1) CDs containing the software have been periodically mailed out and (2) a version has been ...

In this hands-on video walkthrough, I’ll show you how to turn an eligible USB drive, one that you may already have laying around the house, into a handy macOS Monterey install disk. This is useful for ...

Ok I just spent 5 hours restoring my OS X 10.1.5 install to my FW HD from my backup tapes using Retrospect. I go into OS X's Startup Disk pane and can't select it. I open the FW disk and the system ...