You can purchase a second DVD drive for your personal computer or the computers in a small business office for less than $20 as of May 2012. The process is easy ...

In an earlier tutorial, we explained how to clone the Tiger install DVD to a partition on an external FireWire disk. This is a good idea because the DVD is optical media, and optical media can have ...

Reader Steven Harris is trying to do the right thing by his family, but technical barriers prevent it. He writes: Over the holidays I took your advice to give the gift of tech support by offering my ...

Good news, netbook users: There’s a reasonably easy way to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate, even if you don’t have an external DVD drive. As you may recall from yesterday, Windows 7 gets ...

Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) ships, by default, on a DVD. This poses a problem for Macs shipped without a DVD drive, those with non-functional DVD drives, or those which have had their drives manually ...