What Is Disk Utility In Macos? (and How To Use It)

Disk Utility is the go-to tool if you need to resolve any drive errors or organize your drive storage on your Mac. Disk Utility is built into macOS and can prove to be very useful if you know how to use it.

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    Usually, carrying out any task in the utility is hassle-free as it is well optimized to work on Windows systems, however, a lot of users have complained that when they try to do the same ...
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  • Disk Utility
    Once unmounted, either use Disk Utility to restore the image or use Terminal and enter the following command; sudo dd if= /path/to/target.img of=/dev/rdisk N bs=1m * Drag and drop the image file to the Terminal after ' sudo dd if= ' in order to automatically get the file path.
    01/2/2025 - 1:34 pm | View Website
  • Clone hard drive using only Disk Utility? | MacRumors Forums
    When I added an SSD to my MacPro I renamed my original drive to Old Mac HD, installed my SSD, booted to the original drive, and then used the Disk Utility "Restore" function to copy everything from the old drive to the SSD. It was like making an image of the old drive on the new one and hardly took any time at all to copy all the data over.
    01/2/2025 - 1:31 am | View Website
  • Disk Utility Alternative for OS X
    This has been THE disk scan and fix utility on Unix systems for a long time. I think it was written about 36 years ago in 1979. Many other utilities are only front ends that internally launch and run fsck.
    01/1/2025 - 6:22 pm | View Website
  • Does anyone know how to fix error -69845 in disk utility?
    So I rebooted in to Recovery Mode, started Disk Utility, set "Show all devices" and "Show Snapshots" under "View" menu and then delete the snapshots both on the System disk level as well as on the Data partition. Then re-do the First-Aid on Container disk level and data disk level. All with 0 errors.
    01/1/2025 - 10:01 am | View Website
  • RAID 10, SoftRAID or Disk Utility? | MacRumors Forums
    4 drive RAID 5 isnt really too valuable but no disk utility wont do it. I’d say RAID10 is the safest way to be fast with large HDDs when you have 4 large drives. That being said its also kind of painful getting disk utility to do raid 10, and to replace a failed drive you have to use the command line to do it (I’ve done it using apples ...
    01/1/2025 - 4:53 am | View Website
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