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), ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

What is SeaTools for Windows? SeaTools for Windows is a diagnostic tool developed by Seagate to test the health of your hard drive and determine if it is the source of system issues. It helps identify ...

We previously featured a list of tips for keeping your hard drive healthy and running for a long time, and as promised, we will now feature some of the best tools for analyzing and, if needed, ...

Macware on Tuesday announced the release of DiskTools Pro, a new utility for Mac OS X users that helps to diagnose and repair hard disk trouble. It costs $80. DiskTools Pro — developed for Macware by ...

Modern storage devices, like universal serial bus flash drives and solid state drives, lack moving parts and therefore aren't vulnerable to mechanical failure. Traditional hard disk drives, which ...

Easy Disk Drive Repair is an incredibly easy to use, yet powerful drive repair and maintenance tool. It will check your drives for errors at lightning speed, and repair any problems using ...

Whether you need to better organize your hard drive or resolve disk errors, Disk Utility is the tool for the job. Built into macOS, Disk Utility is tucked away in the Utilities folder, which is found ...

A spate of scareware apps that trick users into buying useless hard disk repair tools appears to be part of a concerted campaign to push fake ‘defrag’ software, a security company has said. A spate of ...