Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

In Knowledge Base article #107285, Apple notes that Mac OS 9 disk drivers are required after reformatting a disk. Otherwise, the Startup Disk preference pane in Mac ...

To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

This how-to shows you the steps using Disk Utility 13 in OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but the process is the same if you’re using OS X 10.9 Mavericks or 10.8 Mountain Lion. Here are the instructions using OS ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

Paragon Software Group’s (PSG) Paragon Disk Wiper 15 for Mac OS X Free (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/dw-mac/) is a utility to clean hard disks and SSDs or ...