When trying to partition and format various USB hard drives, a number of users are getting errors in Disk Utility that states "Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't ...

Apple today released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that lets users create a Lion recovery partition on an external drive or USB key. Lion Recovery lets users "repair disks or reinstall OS X ...

I was already tired, and then my generally lovely boys gave me a hard time bathing and getting to bed while my wife, Lynn, was out. Finally the kids passed out, and I moved on to backing up Lynn’s ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery ...

Getting Lion from the App Store is convenient, but if you want a physical copy of the installation, you can easily make your own Lion install DVD or USB drive with Disk Utility. If you want to do a ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

Quickly and thoroughly format any USB flash drive with your choice of FAT, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS partition types. USB flash drives hold everything from personal information to music and pictures and ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

TL;DR - every external HDD gets "the volume /dev/rdisk[X]s1 [with UUID etc] was found to be corrupt and needs to be repaired" (it doesn't repair it). Even though those disks were fully erased and ...

In macOS Mojave, you can choose to encrypt and decrypt disks on the fly right from the desktop. Using this convenient Finder option, we're going to show you how to encrypt a USB flash drive (or "thumb ...