There are several common ways people can verify file system integrity in OS X, including booting to Safe Mode, using Disk Utility, or running the 'fsck' tool. These options have had some people ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...

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 ...

Poor Disk Utility. It seems fated to remain one of Mac OS X’s most underappreciated utilities. If you’ve even launched it at all, chances are you haven’t gone beyond using its First Aid features to ...

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 ...

Security firm AVG is offering users a free utility to rescue damaged systems. The company, best known for its free AVG security suite, said that it would be releasing a new boot disc tool which can be ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

I have a laptop running a fully licensed version of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. For some reason, the boot partition has become corrupted. I didn't get a Windows 7 disc or a recovery disc with the install.

I've gotten an SSD to replace the disk in my MBP. I decided to get the largest drive I could so I could keep the DVD drive for the moment. I may swap the current hard drive back in at some later date.

The FreeDOS utility lets you boot and run several different operating systems and programming languages. The FreeDOS app includes a menu file you use to set up your ...