Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

How to make a bootable USB drive If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

My old pc had a SSD which I would like to be the boot drive in a new machine. However, the new machine cannot boot with it. Here is what the new machine has. Can anyone help me with this?

What? A boot ssd will still be faster. Unless you really have some strange program that will only install on a boot drive and needs the space. Anyways Win7 has been happy with my 96GB drive.

Apple makes it harder to make an external boot drive for your Mac than it has in the past, but sometimes you still need to do it. Here's how to do it in macOS Sequoia.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).

Ask the Experts: Gilbert wants to know if he should upgrade his boot drive SSD and also wants our opinion on the rest of his rig.

For example, if you want to install Mountain Lion on multiple Macs, a bootable install drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire Mountain Lion installer to each computer.