Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard provides the most recent version of the Macintosh operating system that runs on many PowerPC-based Apple computers. Like previous and later versions of the Mac OS, ...

Yesterday we noted Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2.2, which delivers a journalling filesystem and other fairly significant enhancements. While most users experienced a smooth upgrade and immediately ...

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 ...

Clues to the causes of Mac startup problems can be found by analyzing when in the boot process the system fails. Problems may be related to the power supply, battery, hard drive, logic board, OS ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...