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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

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 is based on a live version of ...

You might have come across a situation where your CD-ROM is non-functional or DVD drive is inaccessible, but you want to install Windows Vista or Windows 7. Obviously ...

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 ...

Like it or not, Windows 10 will occasionally fail or falter, to the point where it won’t run and won’t boot. That’s when it’s time to bring out a rescue or recovery tool often called a ...