Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

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 ...

Practically everyone has files or folders they keep on their Mac that they don't want anyone else to access. AppleInsider explains how to keep these files secure by turning a folder into a protected ...

Disk Drill offers two modes of data protection: Guaranteed Recovery, which safeguards particular folders, and Recovery Vault, which protects the disk. Unfortunately, for customers with solid-state ...

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 ...

It appears that, under Mac OS X 10.5.6, Disk Utility seems to have a few quirks, namely a glitch in which it does not properly format some drives. Many users have attached both external and internal ...

A hiccup gave me the opportunity to create my own bootable drive using the latest version of DiskWarrior Recovery Maker (v1.1), a three-minute process. I tested DiskWarrior's three main functions. S.M ...