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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
    • Intro to Disk Utility
    • View all devices or only volumes
    • File system formats
    • Partition schemes
    • Get detailed information about a disk
    • Add, delete, or erase APFS volumes
    • Erase and reformat a storage device
    • Initialize a storage device
    • Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password
    • Partition a physical disk
    • View APFS snapshots
    • Format a disk for Windows computers
    • Repair a storage device
    • Restore a disk
    • Create a disk image
    • Convert a disk image to another format
    • Resize a disk image
    • Restore a disk image to a disk
    • Overview of creating disk sets
    • Create a disk set
    • Delete a disk set
    • Unmount a disk set or disk member
    • Repair a disk in a mirrored disk set
    • Add a disk to a disk set
    • If a disk in a disk set on Mac fails or is missing
  • Troubleshooting
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Copyright

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