Apple rolled out OS X Lion this morning as well as several new Mac Mini and MacBook Air models. And they have a very cool new system recovery option: You can ...

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, you simply need to select the ...

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. There are a few different ways to do ...

Apple is shipping Mac OS X 10.7 Lion via the Mac App Store so how will you reinstall Lion without a DVD or USB stick? Here’s one way you can do it, but it might not be the best way. The Lion ...

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 ...

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.

New Mac computers are causing problems for some users who tried to reinstall OS X or restore their computers from a back up. The problem stems from a permissions issue that occurs when the Mountain ...

A little birdie of ours has managed to snap a page from an internal AppleCare manual detailing OS X Lion’s brand new recovery system, invoked by holding down Command-R during startup. Upon entering ...

Two recent Apple KB articles of note: 106605: Mac OS X 10.1: Do Not Reinstall After Using the Mac OS X Update 10.1.1 states: "You should not reinstall Mac OS X 10.1 ...

Microsoft finally looks set to give Windows 10 PCs and tablets a feature that has been available on Macs since 2011: Internet Recovery … Apple first offered a new recovery tool as part of OS X Lion ...

In what some might term throwing the infant out with the water in which it was steeping, reader J.S. did something that he now regrets. He writes: Last year I had significant problems with my iCal ...