Thomas Koons received what we hope is the "final answer" on the question as to why Apple recommends erasing your drive if you want to reinstall Mac OS X 10.1 after installing the Security Update (see ...

According to reports on Apple's Support Discussions forums, an upgraded graphics card could cause kernel panics when attempting to reinstall Mac OS X Leopard from the original, included restore disk.

MacOS includes a recovery partition that allows you to easily erase all data on your Mac and reinstall your OS without an installation disc. In this article we will ...

The Mac OS X Lion operating system includes a recovery utility that you can use to reinstall the operating system if necessary. If you have a partitioned hard drive ...

There are many reasons to reinstall macOS. It can fix any one of several OS errors. Plus, it helps secure your Mac for sale if you need to wipe all of your data ...

If you ever need to restore the entire contents of an OS X Lion startup drive, or just perform a reinstall of the OS, you’ll find that there are numerous ways to accomplish these tasks. In fact, there ...

If you experience issues running macOS Big Sur on your M1 MacBook Air, ‌M1‌ MacBook Pro, or ‌M1‌ Mac mini, or you want to start afresh with a new installation of the operating system, you'll need to ...

Along with the shift to Apple Silicon, performing things like a restore is different with M1 Macs compared to their Intel predecessors. Follow along for a look at how to revive and restore M1 Macs, ...

-system -<BR>Powermac 5500/225<BR>OS 8.0<BR><BR>This will boot without extensions. Without bypassng them, the OS starts to load from either the CD or from the HDD but stops before any extensions ...

With Mac OS 10.3 - El Capitan - Apple has removed the Secure Empty Trash function. Why? Because with solid state drives - SSDs - Apple couldn't guarantee that a secure erase would actually erase the ...

I have a late 2007 13" MacBook (2.2GHz Core 2) that is currently running OS X 10.6.8. It functions as a home server of sorts, running Plex Media Server, an L2TP VPN server, a Squid proxy, and various ...