There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Sometimes OS X's Disk Utility may show errors with a drive when it's run from one location, but will describe the drive as perfectly healthy when run from another. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Disk Utility hadn’t changed much over the years. The hoary app used for creating logical divisions in disks, applying first aid to ones with data damage, and repairing permissions seemed a thing from ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

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 ...

Free, open-source boot disk utility Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) automatically and completely deletes the content of every hard disk it can find on your computer when you run it. Sure you can fire up ...

For years I've been deploying Macs by using Disk Utility to image the boot drive from a .dmg file. Aside from having to make a new image every time new hardware comes out it's a very convenient system ...

Security firm AVG is offering users a free utility to rescue damaged systems. The company, best known for its free AVG security suite, said that it would be releasing a new boot disc tool which can be ...

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I spent more than 2 hours googling and trying to solve the following problem without success. Disk utility shows my 1TB SSD as circular diagram with what seems to be 2 partitions: 930GB formatted as ...