Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Beginning with 10.7 Lion, Apple stopped distribution of OS X through the usual DVD optical media. Being the first OS deployed specifically through the Mac App Store, a recovery partition was created ...

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

One of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible, bootable, 650MB partition—a portion of ...

Looking at a T620 server with a RAID 1 + RAID 1 setup and Windows Server 2008 Standard. Dell gives the following options for the OS partition: None 40GB Microsoft OS Partition Override add 80GB ...

From Lion’s Install notes: – The Recovery partition may not be created when installing Lion on a drive with an unsupported partition scheme. This is a pretty interesting addition to the OS. When you ...

Migrate OS to SSD with EaseUS Partition Master Learn more OS migration refers to transferring the Windows, along with its ...

As most OS X users are probably aware "virtual memory" (or paging, in OS X's case) is always "on," as is the case with any modern operating system. It is an integral part of the kernel's functionality ...

Your hard drive may appear like it doesn't have all of its space available, but its actually hidden partitions. Here's why you may need them.