When Disk Probe initially loads, it's not set to look at any files or partitions, so you'll have to tell the program which file, disk, or partition you want to work with. Let's begin by examining a ...

Has your Windows 11/10 computer ever run into a problem while trying to select a destination to save your backup? If yes, the problem might have persisted due to one of the following reasons: The ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

You may experience a problem where your system does not startup from the desired Mac OS X partition, instead booting into a Boot Camp-enabled Windows or other ...

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 ...

Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

Windows 11/10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free ...

Here's a couple of related questions, rolled into one, which I am hoping someone can help me out with. These all relate to my attempting to understand the uses of the network block device (nbd) and ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...