Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...

Easeus Todo Backup is faster and simpler than the disk-imaging component of Windows 7's Backup and Restore applet. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It's recommended that you ...

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 ...

Disk Utility hadn’t changed much over the years. The hoary app used for creating logical divisions in disks, applying first aid to ones with data damage, and repairing permissions seemed a thing from ...

In some cases, it seems that the Mac OS 9 Disk Copy utility creates images with smaller allocation blocks than those created by the Mac OS X version. MacFixIt reader Mark Bolzan provides a case ...

Softthinks is basically a backup tool that is used for creating backup files of your computer system. This utility helps you restore your system to its previous status when the Windows operating ...