To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

Knowing how to wipe a Mac and reset it to its factory settings can be a vital step if you're trying to sell or fix it. Here's ...

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.

Mac OS X 10.4.3 includes a fairly significant update to Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities). First, the new release can verify your computer's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been searching all over Apple's support site to find out if you can make a FireWire RAID using Disk Utility under Jaguar, and I cannot seem to get a definitive answer.<BR><BR>There is a ...

Before using a new drive attached to your Mac, you may need to complete some basic configuration steps before the operating system recognizes the drive. The Mac operating system requires that you use ...

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 ...