Generally speaking, you don’t need to create a recovery partition for your Mac: since the launch of Lion (when Apple stopped selling boxed copies of its operating systems, so it knew buyers wouldn’t ...

In the event of a serious problem with your Mac, you may need to reinstall your Mac operating system. There’s a simple way to do this using your Mac Recovery partition or via Mac Internet Recovery.

All modern Macs with Apple silicon feature a built-in recovery system called macOS Recovery that includes various utilities that can be accessed before your Mac boots up the operating system. This ...

MacFixIt reader Steffen Hofemann recently inquired: "I had to re-install Mac OS X 10.4.x on my PowerBook completely fresh and could not keep the old system settings. I made a backup of the content of ...

This will allow you to check your drive for errors, restore a recent Time Machine backup, and—if the drive is still physically working—reinstall the operating system to give it a fresh start. First, ...

Whether you’re looking to sell your Mac or reset it due to an intractable software problem, restoring to factory settings is a good way to spruce up even the best MacBooks or Macs, and clear off ...

This post is brought to you by Tenorshare. With the launch of Apple’s T2 Security Chip in 2018, the custom silicon has increased the overall security of Macs. But as good and efficient as a T2-secured ...