Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

There’s a very practical piece of software many Mac users may not even know they have, even though it’s included on every Mac sold. I speak of Disk Utility, Apple’s much-overlooked tool for managing ...

If you’re using a computer for work then at some point, you’re going to have a problem with it. Whether it’s a virus, a piece of spyware or a failing hard drive, you’re going to run into some problems ...

MacFixIt reader Bill reports that performing a reformat of the iPod's hard drive in Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) can sometimes work as a ...