A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

The First Aid option in Apple’s Disk Utility can be great for making quick repairs to a drive. Remember you can always find Disk Utility within Applications > Utilities. Third-party disk repair apps ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: My 60gb HD somehow got reformatted, much to my chagrin. Now, I have reason to believe that it may have just been a 'quick' reformat, which would mean (unless I'm mistaken) that the file ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...