Start up in Safe Mode: should it start by checking and repairing your boot disk, or should you do that separately in Recovery Mode?
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Don’t just hold Command-R and hope that you’ll install the right version of macOS. Here’s structured decision-making to save you time.
There are now three different Recovery modes. This explains which to use, and provides a flowchart to help you work out how best to reinstall in them.
Over a month after the release of macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Apple quietly let slip the news that it […]
How to use encryption to protect sensitive data on your laptop or removable storage media.
The drive light is green, the disk can be heard spinning, but it does not mount. Is it dead?
Is there anything else I can try to salvage a dead external hard drive, and how should I replace it?
My husband was still using my ancient G3/G4 tower when it froze, apparently dead. It refuses to start up now. How can we recover what is left on its hard disk?
Crashes don’t come any harder than when your Mac just sits there, your startup disk missing or unusable. Here is how to prepare for, and recover from, such a hard crash.
Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]
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