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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been searching all over Apple's support site to find out if you can make a FireWire RAID using Disk Utility under Jaguar, and I cannot seem to get a definitive answer.<BR><BR>There is a ...

I tried to set up RAID 0 using Disk Utility, but was unable to do so. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that one of the two drives in the casing had gone bad and I was just seeing one, as the ...

You can use macOS Sierra’s Disk Utility app to create a software RAID, but you can also use it to delete the RAID. If you created a RAID using Disk Utility and now you don’t want to use the disks as a ...

I made a backup image of my hard drive, and I want to restore it using Disk Utility. Obviously, I need to start up from my install CD and use the Restore pane in Disk Utility. However, they only way ...

One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility—a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the ...

Click to viewThe bad news is, we have discovered a Leopard-related issue that may very well throw a monkey wrench into your Time Machine. Anyone trying to use Time Machine with a previously ...

Practically everyone has files or a folder that they keep on their Mac that they don't want anyone else to access. Today, AppleInsider walks you through the steps to keep your files secure by turning ...