If you have purchased a new Mac or have upgraded your hard drive on an older Mac, you may find when accessing the option to erase free disk space using Apple's Disk Utility that the controls for doing ...

Here's the thrilling conclusion to last week's episode, namely, how to properly reformat — erase — your old Mac's hard disk so its data can never be recovered. First, back up the data on your old Mac ...

Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

When you sell or donate a Mac or give it to a family member, it’s best to make a clean break: wipe the puppy clean, reinstall the latest version of OS X, and hand off a system that you’re not worried ...

A reader recently contacted us with a question regarding her decision to recycle an older iMac computer. She wanted to know how she could clear/reformat the hard drive, but didn't have the disks that ...

Back in August of last year, I wrote about QuickErase, a utility that makes it easy to erase rewriteable discs. (As their names imply, rewriteable discs—a.k.a., CD-RW and DVD-RW discs—can be reused, ...

Planning to sell or give away your iMac, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro? Or is its performance lagging due to too much content on your drives, and you want to see if a fresh start will help? Consider ...

MacOS includes a recovery partition that allows you to easily erase all data on your Mac and reinstall your OS without an installation disc. In this article we will show you how to reinstall Mac OS ...