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 ...

If you ever need to partition or edit the partitions on your hard drives without an existing OS on the computer, then GParted Live should be in your PC toolbox. The free GParted Live is based on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years, a few operating systems and tools have become staples for my recovery drive. These operating systems run on ...

OK, pop a blank DVD into your DVD writer drive (for now I'm assuming that you actually have a DVD writer, if you don't I'll show you something else you can do in a moment). With that done, fire up ...