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 ...

Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The ...

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 ...

Q. Is there a utility for Apple computers that is like the defrag or chkdsk utilities on Windows? A. The tool Apple has for this is called Disk Utility and you can find it in the Utilities folder ...

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 ...