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Third party support for CoreStorage: disk repair and other utilities

Do third-party disk tools work with Fusion Drives, or are you stuck with just Disk Utility?

December 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

El Capitan and Yosemite: how CoreStorage changes hard drives and their care

If you are running Yosemite or El Capitan, OS X may have changed the way that your boot disk is managed – and how you can maintain and repair it.

December 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

From disaster back to normal: rebuilding the RAID

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How I recovered my broken RAID backups, and got everything working again.

December 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Greyed out external drive

The icon for my 2 TB external drive is greyed out in Disk Utility, and I can do nothing with it. How can I restore its normal function?

November 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Permissions not repairable

When I try to move files onto my hard drive, I have to authenticate. How can I fix this?

November 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

App crashed? it could be SIP

When an app ran fine, but crashes in El Capitan, it may be SIP’s fault. Here is how to check, and more about SIP.

November 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Keys out of order

When verifying my hard disk, Disk Utility reports that the ‘keys are out of order’. What do I do next?

November 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Cleaning up an old iMac

How to repartition and install El Capitan afresh on an old iMac.

November 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Teasmade iMac

My iMac persists in starting up and freezing every morning. How can I stop it?

October 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Ghost disk images

Why do I see several disk images in the sidebar of Disk Utility?

October 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

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