No idea why the SSD isn't listed as a boot option. The only thing I can think of is that the BCD on the 4TB drive isn't configured properly, or the boot files didn't get copied properly to the EFI ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Now that many Intel Mac users have a Windows Boot Camp partition on their Macs, backing up or restoring that Boot Camp data becomes a bit challenging, as most backup utilities only copy the Mac ...

Upgrading to a new SSD usually means one of two things: either spend hours reinstalling Windows and all your programs, or clone your existing drive and be done in 30 minutes. If you've been putting ...

Boot Camp will add a partition on-the-fly to your system drive, but there are some things that can stand in the way of that process. AppleInsider explains how to fix most of the issues preventing you ...

It's come to this: You fire up Vista's Computer window and see that your boot partition—the hard drive section on which Vista resides—is running out of space. You spend a few hours getting rid of as ...

The OS X 10.7 upgrade should work independently of your Boot Camp installations, but some people may find that after upgrading to Lion their Boot Camp installations are no longer accessible. In some ...

Definition of MBR & how to fix missing or corrupt MBRs A master boot record (often shortened as MBR) is a kind of boot sector ...

Reader Steve S. is finally ready to complete his transition from Windows to the Mac. He writes: When I got my iMac three years ago, I was moving from a Windows-based experience. Naturally, I made a ...

I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...