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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The First Aid option in Apple’s Disk Utility can be great for making quick repairs to a drive. Remember you can always find Disk Utility within Applications > Utilities. Third-party disk repair apps ...

A utility you hope rarely to need gets a complete overhaul, omitting familiar features and making some actions easier to carry out. Disk Utility hadn’t changed much over the years. The hoary app used ...

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 ...

There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use ...

macOS High Sierra Disk Utility is about as similar to the tool under Sierra as these components are to one another, so let's take a walk through the application. In a previous article, I showed some ...

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 ...