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 ...

Disk partitions can be a good way to keep personal and system data separate or useful if you want to run Windows alongside macOS. Setting them up can be a bit tricky, so it’s a good idea to use ...

Discover how to use the Windows 11 Disk Cleanup Utility to reclaim storage space quickly. Step-by-step guide with tips for ...

A new program called BurnBytes has been released that merges the traditional functionality of the Microsoft Disk Cleanup utility with the aesthetics of Windows 10's Storage Sense feature. A little ...

MacOptimizer keeps your Mac in top shape. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals No matter how great you are at updating your Mac and closing all your windows, you’ll inevitably run into some performance issues now ...

Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it. Retro computing is popular these days, and one aspect of vintage ...

I’ve put together an essential foundation document for Mac users who may sometimes try to help support friends and family. Still having problems? Restart the Mac holding down Command-R to enter Disk ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...

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 ...

A proprietary bandwidth benchmark was on the drive, so I went into Disk Utility and reformatted the drive. I wanted to test the G-RAID mini in both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations, but could not get ...