Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

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 ...

Greetings Mac Arsians,<BR><BR>I was wondering if anyone with knowledge of Disk Utility could explain to me a cryptic error I seem to be getting. Any help would be ...

Apple's new Repair Privileges utility restores the privileges of Mac OS X system files and Apple-installed software to their default configuration. All previous modifications to the privileges of ...

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 ...