A few months ago in TidBITS I compared the various disk repair programs then available for Mac OS X: Norton Utilities 8.0 ($100), DiskWarrior 3.0 ($80), Drive 10 1.1.4 ($70), Disk Guardian 2.2 ($70), ...

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 ...

Macware on Tuesday announced the release of DiskTools Pro, a new utility for Mac OS X users that helps to diagnose and repair hard disk trouble. It costs $80. DiskTools Pro — developed for Macware by ...

Like it or not, Windows 10 will occasionally fail or falter, to the point where it won’t run and won’t boot. That’s when it’s time to bring out a rescue or recovery tool often called a ...

I started out looking for a handy disk partitioning tool to repair a colleague’s ailing computer. I ended up finding a toolbox full of very handy repair and system maintenance apps. As a bonus, I got ...

I have a corrupted external thumb drive with some data I would prefer not to lose. Yes, backups backups backups. My mac is continually backed up via BackBlaze & TimeMachine. But this little drive is ...