If the main disk in your Mac is a spinning hard drive, you should probably upgrade to a solid state drive. Swapping in an SSD is the cheapest way to make your old computer feel like a brand-new Mac.

The safest way to secure your data on Windows is by keeping it in encrypted vaults. You can create hidden, password-protected ...

We continue to receive reports of users who have problems unmounting devices under Mac OS X 10.4.x. In some cases Norton AntiVirus is involved, in others it is not. Previously, we reported that in ...

At the office, I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to an 1TB LaCie drive. I’ve partitioned that external into two volumes: one for Time Machine, the other for maintaining a bootable clone of the MacBook’s ...

Kurt Jefferson wants El Capitan to let his drives go! Sometimes the drive won’t unmount no matter what, and I get the dreaded “The disk wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it” or ...

MacPaw’s CleanMyDrive (http://www.macpaw.com/ cleanmydrive) — available free for a limited time at the Mac App Store — is a new, tiny Mac utility that lets you ...

So there's one thing that really annoys me with my powerbook and OS X. <BR><BR>At home I have a nice 250 Gb drive, with two partitions, one for backup, one for every thing else. When I bring my laptop ...

FireWire drives (and other mounted volumes) automatically dismount when there are no logged-in users under Mac OS X 10.3.x. This is a change in behavior from Mac OS X 10.2.x, where drives remained ...

I figured someone would know this, after doing a quick google search, and using google on apple's site I am still a little confused.<BR><BR>I was using a mac to print some stuff, off at my local ...

Mounting and unmounting drives using both the terminal and the GUI is an essential Linux skill. In this article, we show how to do this and how to work with ISO image files.

With the introduction of the new Mac Pro, Apple sent a clear message that it’s abandoning internal storage expansion in the Macintosh product line. If you need more storage for your Mac, you’re going ...