When your small business creates a bootable disk for its Mac computers from ISO disk images, there's a difference between an ISO file and the disk image it contains. If you burn the file to a blank ...

For reasons more archival than practical, I've decided it's time to make a one-time backup of all my old floppies. While I may not ever need to use them again, I'd like to make .iso copies of my ...

Looking for free software to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 11/10? Your search ends here as we list the best free bootable USB maker software. A bootable USB ...

Several days ago, we covered where to download a Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 ISO image file, but a common question is what do you do once the image is downloaded? The answer is make a bootable USB drive out ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

Every time Microsoft releases a new feature update for Windows 10, you should build a new recovery drive containing the setup files for that update. You can use that ...

An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive. Keeping an ISO backup of expensive software such as Microsoft Office on your computer ...

The "Bootable" legacy ISO you've used is in fact not bootable, it relies on CDROM emulation provided by BIOS. VMs don't usually do this sort of emulation. If you set the guest OS to something like ...

Remember the good old days, when PCs were young and programs weresmall?You could put DOS and a bunch of useful tools on a singlefloppy disk, which always held a place of honor near your computerfor ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

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 ...