Sometimes OS X's Disk Utility may show errors with a drive when it's run from one location, but will describe the drive as perfectly healthy when run from another. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, Apple released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a tool that lets you fix a Mac with a corrupted or dead hard drive by creating a Lion Recovery volume on an external hard drive or USB stick.

I’ve put together an essential foundation document for Mac users who may sometimes try to help support friends and family. Still having problems? Restart the Mac holding down Command-R to enter Disk ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloning a storage disk is a great way to manage your digital data. Whether you want to use the cloned disk as a backup in case of a hardware ...