Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

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 ...

If your hard drive on your PC is experiencing a lot of errors, one of the solutions is to do a search for bad sectors and try to fix them. To do that you can use a built-in Windows utility called ...

There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use ...

Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility—a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the ...

If you’re using a computer for work then at some point, you’re going to have a problem with it. Whether it’s a virus, a piece of spyware or a failing hard drive, you’re going to run into some problems ...

When I try to run Checkdisk on Windows XP Pro, I get a message saying:<P><B>The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the ...

CHKDSK or Check Disk is a utility built inside the Windows operating systems that work to maintain the integrity of the disk connected to a computer. It can be launched both via Graphical User ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...