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 ...

This tip is especially handy for Mac OS X Lion users, but it should even work with Mac OS X Snow Leopard too. You’ll be able to activate a hidden debugging menu and other hidden secrets in the Disk ...

Sometimes applications may not perform as expected or needed, so having two on your system will allow you to use one when the other will not work. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

Most Mac users are familiar with Disk Utility. It’s used to format hard drives, create RAID arrays, mount volumes, burn disk images (.dmg files), and fix basic disk problems. The Repair Disk function ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

Both capabilities can be handy for some applications, such as keeping your hard disk free of junk without having to think about it. One other CCleaner feature that can be a real help in some cases is ...