You can purchase a second DVD drive for your personal computer or the computers in a small business office for less than $20 as of May 2012. The process is easy ...

Getting Lion from the App Store is convenient, but if you want a physical copy of the installation, you can easily make your own Lion install DVD or USB drive with Disk Utility. If you want to do a ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

Good news, netbook users: There’s a reasonably easy way to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate, even if you don’t have an external DVD drive. As you may recall from yesterday, Windows 7 gets ...

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

So you want to take Windows 8 for a spin on a computer that doesn’t have a disc drive? Not a problem. While Microsoft has only released a disc image of Windows 8 Developer Preview, you can use the ...