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 ...

In case you are experiencing hard disk logic errors in your Windows PC and need hard disk repair software, this page shows six disk repair solutions to save you from data loss, including free hard ...

Sometimes I long for the good old days when a person would bring me a broken Mac, I would run any disk repair utility and, more than 99 per cent of the time, the Mac would performed like new again and ...

For the most part, Macs don’t crash as much as other computers. One reason for that is that the Mac doesn’t have to contend with an unpredictable mix of hardware and software: OS X is highly optimised ...

What is SeaTools for Windows? SeaTools for Windows is a diagnostic tool developed by Seagate to test the health of your hard drive and determine if it is the source of system issues. It helps identify ...

In the April, 2010, issue of PC World, and back in December here at the old Hassle-Free PC Blog, I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step ...

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 ...