Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

The built-in tools make it easy to partition your Mac hard drive. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want to install a beta version of macOS, either for software development or for simply ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

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 ...

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

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 ...

For those who use both Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, having a single external hard drive that is compatible with both operating systems could be very beneficial. The problem with this is that by ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...