Apple's included support for a variety of disk images in OS X is one of the more convenient aspects of the operating system, allowing you to easily encrypt or otherwise compartmentalize your data for ...

Have you ever experienced an issue where a disk image is mounted then subsequently unmounted, but disk space of the same quantity as the image remains occupied on your startup volume (hard disk)? If ...

It’s always a good idea to have an Image Backup of your OS. So, if there’s any even of misfortune, you don’t end up losing your data but can restore it fully from Repair Disc or an external hard drive ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

In my last post, Hummingboard: Giving Raspberry Pi a run for less money, I mentioned using a free. open source Windows utility called Win32 Disk Imager to create a disk image of Debian GNU/Linux ...