Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

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 ...

Currently the drives are in spanned RAID mode, from what I can gather from the Command+R > Disk Utility read out. It says that it's got a 1.5TB hard disk, when there are 3x 500GB drives physically ...

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

PGP Corporation today announced a major update to PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X. While Whole Disk Encryption was previously available for Macs, it only encrypted external volumes and didn't ...

Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined. Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make ...

Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it. Retro computing is popular these days, and one aspect of vintage ...

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 ...

Paragon Software Group’s (PSG) Paragon Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X Free (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/dw-mac/) is a utility to clean hard disks and SSDs or ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...