If you happen to own an Intel Mac computer, you can use HFSExplorer to access the partitions on your Mac hard drive. Whether or not you have a Mac running a copy of Windows or you're using an external device to access your hard drive from a Windows PC, accessing the files is made possible with this freeware application.

• Mac hard drive test software - creating the definitive list. Disk Utility, diskutil (FREE, comes with OS) Smartmon Tools (FREE, Open Source) SMARTReporter ($4.95 for commercial version, but an older version is FREE) Scannerz Lite ($21.95) Scannerz with Phoenix and FSE-Lite ($39.95) Disk Tools Pro ($79.99) Disk Warrior ($99.00).
• Let me back up a little bit here. I have a 500GB SSD in my late 2009 27' iMac. It worked fine for a year. Decided to sell it, so I wiped the machine by going into disk utility and deleting the drive + erasing all it's data. I clicked re-install OS, downloaded it, and at the end it gave me an.

Jul 21, 2021 The Storage pane of About This Mac is the best way to determine the amount of storage space available on your Mac. Disk Utility and other apps might show storage categories such as Not Mounted, VM, Recovery, Other Volumes, Other, Free, or Purgeable.

HFSExplorer is probably designed mainly for those who are running Windows on Mac hardware with Boot Camp, but it can also be used in other cases. All you require is a hard drive with an HFS file-system.

In the end, definitely a useful utility if you want to access files and folders on a Mac hard drive.

HFSExplorer 0.23.1 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs

This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from hard disk partition software without restrictions. HFSExplorer 0.23.1 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. As an open source project, you are free to view the source code and distribute this software application freely.

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Utility Software For Mac

Disk Utility User Guide

In Disk Utility on Mac, you can erase and reformat storage devices to use with your Mac. Erasing a storage device deletes everything on it.

1. If you have any files you want to save, copy them to another storage device.

2. Open the Disk Utility app on your Mac using one of the following methods, depending on the type of disk or volume you want to erase:

   • If you want to erase your startup disk: Start up from macOS Recovery, then choose Disk Utility from the Recovery window.

   • If you want to erase any other type of storage device: Double-click Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities folder.

3. Choose View > Show All Devices.

4. In the sidebar, select the storage device you want to erase, then click the Erase button .

5. Click the Scheme pop-up menu, then choose GUID Partition Map.

6. Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose a file system format.

7. Enter a name.

8. (Optional) If available, click Security Options, use the slider to choose how many times to write over the erased data, then click OK.

   Secure erase options are available only for some types of storage devices. If the Security Options button is not available, Disk Utility cannot perform a secure erase on the storage device.

9. Click Erase, then click Done.

Note: With a solid-state drive (SSD), secure erase options are not available in Disk Utility. For more security, consider turning on FileVault encryption when you start using your SSD drive.

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