Apple hides a surprising range of powerful, free apps in every Mac. Learn which built-ins can actually boost your ...

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 ...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

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 ...

More on Disk Utility's inability to complete repairs We previously reported on an inability to properly run Disk Utility after applying the iTunes 6.0.2 update ...

I have a 20 GB disk with ~8GB used for an HFS+ partition and the rest is unallocated.<BR><BR>I'd like to add a second partition in that space and was wondering if I can just do that with OS X's disk ...

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 ...

If Disk Cleanup is not working properly and does not remove Windows Update files, Temporary files, Windows.old folder, Internet files, etc. do this to fix the issue. Remove Temporary Files manually ...

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 ...

I have only seen the S.M.A.R.T function work once. It was on one of my xserves but it only came on once the drive started to completely fail. I have replaced a few hard drives in powerbooks that never ...