Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

Yesterday we noted Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2.2, which delivers a journalling filesystem and other fairly significant enhancements. While most users experienced a smooth upgrade and immediately ...

New version of Disk Utility can fix "overlapped extent allocation" errors As noted in Knowledge Base article #25770, the version of Disk Utility (10.5.1) included with Mac OS X 10.4.2 can fixed ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard provides the most recent version of the Macintosh operating system that runs on many PowerPC-based Apple computers. Like previous and later versions of the Mac OS, ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...