How to Format an OS X Terminal Hard Disk. Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive.

In Knowledge Base article #107285, Apple notes that Mac OS 9 disk drivers are required after reformatting a disk. Otherwise, the Startup Disk preference pane in Mac OS X will list the Mac OS 9 ...

It appears that, under Mac OS X 10.5.6, Disk Utility seems to have a few quirks, namely a glitch in which it does not properly format some drives ...

If you want to format a drive that will be used as your Macu2019s startup disk, the procedure is a little different from formatting it for use as a secondary drive for storing data.

New disk image format for macOS 15 and 26 goes into turbo mode Encrypted disk images are notoriously slow on the Mac. The new ASIF format aims to change this. It is available for Tahoe and Sequoia.

What just happened? Apple's latest update for Macs, macOS 26 Tahoe, introduces a significant leap forward in disk image technology with the debut of the ASIF format – a development that could ...