If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

If you've purchased a Seagate hard disk drive to use on one of your office computers, you can partition it in Apple's Disk Utility application running on a Mac. Along with preparing drives for ...

This Mac volume manager tool is capable of creating and deleting Mac partitions along with partition resizing without causing any data loss. Using this partition manager for Mac systems you can hide ...

We previously noted several limitations of Mac OS X 10.3's Disk Utility, which is supposed to replicate much of the functionality present in Mac OS X 10.2's Disk Copy. Among the noted limitations are ...

I want to partition the card so I can use it for an OS install disk (Mac OS Extended GUID) in one partition and as a camera disk (MS-DOS FAT) in the other partition. Disk utility can do the partition, ...

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

Apple made it easier to resize partitions–logical divisions of a storage device into separate mountable volumes with different properties–several releases of macOS ago. A Macworld reader resized their ...

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 ...

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 ...

This tip is especially handy for Mac OS X Lion users, but it should even work with Mac OS X Snow Leopard too. You’ll be able to activate a hidden debugging menu and other hidden secrets in the Disk ...