The MacApper weblog has a simple, beginner's tutorial for creating and using virtual disks on your Mac using the built-in Disk Utility. As MacApper explains, Disk Utility allows you to back up a CD or ...

If you've purchased a Seagate hard disk drive to use on one of your office computers, you can partition it in Apple's Disk Utility application running on a Mac. Along with preparing drives for ...

Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

It’s a good idea to check on the health of your Mac’s internal storage on a regular basis. You can do this using Disk Utility, an app that comes with every Mac. To run the check, you need to boot the ...

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 ...

Disk Utility has stayed more or less the same for years, but Apple has given the Mac power user’s much-loved maintenance tool a big overhaul in El Capitan, making it look different and removing ...

From time-to-time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods -- pressing the keyboard eject key; using the Command-E keyboard combination; ...

New Disk Repair shutdown mechanism MacFixIt reader Jim Muha points out an interesting change in Mac OS X 10.5.2 with regard to Disk repair: "The computer will now shut down if an automatic disk repair ...