When trying to partition and format various USB hard drives, a number of users are getting errors in Disk Utility that states "Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn't ...

Apple today released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a utility that lets users create a Lion recovery partition on an external drive or USB key. Lion Recovery lets users "repair disks or reinstall OS X ...

TL;DR - every external HDD gets "the volume /dev/rdisk[X]s1 [with UUID etc] was found to be corrupt and needs to be repaired" (it doesn't repair it). Even though those disks were fully erased and ...

I was already tired, and then my generally lovely boys gave me a hard time bathing and getting to bed while my wife, Lynn, was out. Finally the kids passed out, and I moved on to backing up Lynn’s ...

Quickly and thoroughly format any USB flash drive with your choice of FAT, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS partition types. USB flash drives hold everything from personal information to music and pictures and ...

GParted is a hard drive partitioning utility that allows you to customize your disk partitions with a graphical interface. Partitioning can be useful in an office setting to create backup partitions, ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion.] Apple this week released a free utility called Lion Recovery Disk Assistant that provides an easy ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

I tried to reformat my USB drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, but it says that there is no media in the specified device. It doesn’t even display total size and the free size of the USB. Then ...