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 ...

If you ever need to restore the entire contents of an OS X Lion startup drive, or just perform a reinstall of the OS, you’ll find that there are numerous ways to accomplish these tasks. In fact, there ...

When you use your Mac to make a living you can’t really afford to have much downtime. If your main hard drive—the one with your system software and your programs—were to die, how long would it take ...

Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. The company also issued an update to its Logic Express and Logic Pro ...

A hiccup gave me the opportunity to create my own bootable drive using the latest version of DiskWarrior Recovery Maker (v1.1), a three-minute process. I tested DiskWarrior's three main functions. S.M ...

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 ...

With Lion’s digital-only release, someone apparently forgot to send Steve Jobs the security memo about single-points-of-failure being a definitively bad thing. Well no longer: Apple just released ...