The First Aid feature in Apple’s Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) represents one of the oldest and most helpful repair utilities available for your Mac. But ...

After a brief examination of how you get started with these programs, given that you can’t repair an active startup disk in Mac OS X, I look at the worst type of problem – hardware failures, after ...

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 overlapped extent allocation errors -- problems with disk directory structure ...

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 ...

Apple has released a trio of articles that offer new or updated information regarding disk repairs. Let’s take a look at each. Gray progress bar at startup and Snow Leopard According to an Apple ...

I have had similar symptoms in the past on more than one Mac (disk utility says it can,t repair and you should backup ASAP, failure to boot up, etc.) only to find a run of Disk Warrior and I was good ...

The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...