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 ...

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 won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...

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 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 ...

When Mac users consider software they absolutely must have, a disk repair utility should top everyone’s list. A disk repair utility is a program that diagnoses, and ideally, fixes your computer’s hard ...

The essential disk-repair utility for any Mac. Apple's OS X includes a Disk Utility program that's so flexible and effective that I'd pay for it if it didn't come with the system. Disk Utility is good ...

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 ...

Despite my confidence in OS X, it would be wrong of me to suggest that Macs are perfect. A power cut, forced shutdown or other event may very well lead to an onslaught of problems. While the system ...

When considering software a Mac user absolutely must have, a disk repair utility should top everyone’s list. A disk repair utility is a program that diagnoses and, ideally, fixes your computer’s hard ...

Update: As several of our commenters pointed out, the OS is probably running the fsck utility in the background to repair directory problems, while showing the progress bar to the end user so they ...