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 ...

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 ...

A MacFixIt reader reports issues formatting disks in MS-DOS FAT using Apple's Disk Utility. When storage devices (in this case, flash memory cards) are formatted using Disk Utility, they may not be ...

You know "Disk Utility" in OSX, but in the earliest incarnations of OSX (<= 10.2.8) Disk Utility is found in two pieces, Disk Copy and Disk Utility. For Mac OS9, this software has a three-piece spread ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloning a storage disk is a great way to manage your digital data. Whether you want to use the cloned disk as a backup in case of a hardware ...

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, ...

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 ...

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

Windows still has many legacy utilities you can use on your PC to complete tasks. Some are being removed or deprecated, like ...