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), ...

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For the most part, Macs don’t crash as much as other computers. One reason for that is that the Mac doesn’t have to contend with an unpredictable mix of hardware and software: OS X is highly optimised ...

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 ...

Sometimes I long for the good old days when a person would bring me a broken Mac, I would run any disk repair utility and, more than 99 per cent of the time, the Mac would performed like new again and ...

If a hard drive shows 0 used space and 0 free space despite having a lot of free space, you cannot store files on it. This problem usually occurs if your hard drive is corrupted or your system is ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

We all know the importance of USB flash drives, right? These are tiny but very useful. USB flash drives give us the freedom to access our essential files from any system. We take them for granted, but ...

There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.