300 news & feature articles results for "hard drive repair"

Some people have been in situations where they would like to repair their hard drives and permissions on systems that they do not have an installation disk for, but do have access to install disks for other versions of OS X.

Posted by Topher Kessler

A number of Snow Leopard users have run into a problem where upon backing up with Time Machine they get an error "109" claiming the backup disk image could not be accessed. Here's a possible solution for this.

Posted by Topher Kessler

There are a variety of tools available for managing your hard drive's structure and data. Most are shareware utilities that give you function or time limits until you register the program, but there are a few out there that are both useful and free.

Posted by Topher Kessler

Rapid Repair offers 240GB hard drives that can replace the 30, 60, or 80GB hard drives found in older fifth-generation iPods.

Posted by Donald Bell

Consequences of Drive 10 "zero byte" repairs

Posted by CNET staff

Disk repair utilities: poll results and the bottom line

Posted by CNET staff

Don't put it in the microwave, don't roast it on a spit, don't soak it in acid, and don't put it next to an industrial-strength magnet; the key is to make the drive's platters unspinnable.

Posted by Dennis O'Reilly

Disk First Aid 8.2 is out (it can repair startup disks);

Posted by CNET staff

Defensively speaking, less is better

Posted by Michael Horowitz

Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh: possible corruption of hard drive

Posted by CNET staff