Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

The First Aid feature in Apple’s Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) represents one of the oldest and most helpful repair utilities available for your Mac. But ...

A step-by-step guide to fixing a black screen on MacBook Pro or an external monitor.

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 ...

OrangeMicro PCI cards and 10.2.8 Yesterday we reported the saga of a user whose Mac would not work properly after installing the 10.2.8 update. The culprit apparently ended up being an Orange Micro ...

New version of Disk Utility can fix "overlapped extent allocation" errors As noted in Knowledge Base article #25770, the version of Disk Utility (10.5.1) included with Mac OS X 10.4.2 can fixed ...

A German repair shop has found a way to fix malfunctioning lid angle sensors in the MacBook range by sidestepping Apple's hardware lock with a new tool. The device, called the Nerd.Tool.1, was ...

On stage in 2008, Steve Jobs pulled an entire laptop out of a manila envelope. It had a full-size keyboard, a screen, batteries, ports—everything most of us would need from a laptop, all somehow fit ...

On Tuesday, Apple expanded its self-service repair program to M1-based MacBooks. Giving customers repair manuals and the ability to buy parts and buy or rent tools for M1 MacBook Airs and M1 MacBook ...

I've got a Late-2009 Aluminum iMac (27"). It crashed last night, so I restarted and it booted into the restore disk. I tried to verify/repair the disk and got: I thought I had a recent time machine ...