You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it before your internal drive fails. Here's how to do it all, and what's been ...

When testing out beta versions of macOS, I rarely install them on my main Mac volume containing the current version of macOS. Instead, I prefer to simply create a second volume dedicated to the beta.

Apple today updated its macOS 12.3 beta release notes to warn macOS Catalina users about a potential boot loop issue when installing the macOS 12.3 or macOS 11.6.4 betas on a separate APFS volume with ...

Some Macworld readers are concerned about upgrading to macOS High Sierra, which offers the new APFS (Apple File System) that replaces the nearly 20-year-old HFS+ filesystem. APFS offers a lot of ...

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 ...

Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it. Disk Utility provides various tasks such as formatting storage devices, mounting ...

My friend was wiping my Mac so I could sell it and I’m pretty sure they’ve deleted the start up disk? It’s not letting me reinstall the OS on a recovery startup. She wonders about a fix. There are a ...

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 ...

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...

Am I destined to stare at the standard 3.5"HDD icon in Mac OS for my windows boot disk for ever? I can't figure out how to edit that icon; guessing it has to do with the volume being NTFS? I can ...