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), ...

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 ...

Macware’s Disk Tools Pro (http://macte.ch/aqv1N) is an excellent all-around utility for maintaining, optimizing and protecting your Macintosh hard drive. The suite ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all these disk repair utilities, only Norton Disk Doctor claims to check partition maps, and indeed it was the only one to detect the problem, although even it proved incapable of fixing the ...