MacFixIt reader Bill reports that performing a reformat of the iPod's hard drive in Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) can sometimes work as a ...

Some people have been in situations where they would like to repair their hard drives and permissions on systems that they do not have an installation disk for, but do have access to install disks for ...

It’s a good idea to check on the health of your Mac’s internal storage on a regular basis. You can do this using Disk Utility, an app that comes with every Mac. To run the check, you need to boot the ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

I have been searching all over Apple's support site to find out if you can make a FireWire RAID using Disk Utility under Jaguar, and I cannot seem to get a definitive answer.<BR><BR>There is a ...

One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility—a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the ...

I made a backup image of my hard drive, and I want to restore it using Disk Utility. Obviously, I need to start up from my install CD and use the Restore pane in Disk Utility. However, they only way ...

Click to viewThe bad news is, we have discovered a Leopard-related issue that may very well throw a monkey wrench into your Time Machine. Anyone trying to use Time Machine with a previously ...

Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a way to speed up your ...

If you’ve ever tried to store a Final Cut Pro X library on an external hard drive connected to your local network, or via an actual NAS from a company like Synology ...

Protecting your computer's data is essential to maintaining your physical and digital privacy. With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored on computer systems, you should take the ...