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 ...

There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

When considering software a Mac user absolutely must have, a disk repair utility should top everyone’s list. A disk repair utility is a program that diagnoses and, ideally, fixes your computer’s hard ...

A few months ago in TidBITS I compared the various disk repair programs then available for Mac OS X: Norton Utilities 8.0 ($100), DiskWarrior 3.0 ($80), Drive 10 1.1.4 ($70), Disk Guardian 2.2 ($70), ...

When Mac users consider software they absolutely must have, a disk repair utility should top everyone’s list. A disk repair utility is a program that diagnoses, and ideally, fixes your computer’s hard ...

Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...

The essential disk-repair utility for any Mac. Apple's OS X includes a Disk Utility program that's so flexible and effective that I'd pay for it if it didn't come with the system. Disk Utility is good ...

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 ...

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 ...