There’s a very practical piece of software many Mac users may not even know they have, even though it’s included on every Mac sold. I speak of Disk Utility, Apple’s much-overlooked tool for managing ...

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 ...

Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Poor Disk Utility. It seems fated to remain one of Mac OS X’s most underappreciated utilities. If you’ve even launched it at all, chances are you haven’t gone beyond using its First Aid features to ...

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 ...

The hard disk at the heart of your Mac is a fragile tool. Not only can the data on it go awry, but the disk itself can also fail, leaving you with nothing. There's not much you can do about a physical ...

I realize the term "low level format" might not apply to NVME storage, but here's the situation... I've managed to recover everything I want from a stick with a corrupted filesystem. Now I'm ready to ...