In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

EaseUS announced the official release of EaseUS Disk Copy 7.0.0 on Jan. 7, 2026, representing a fundamental shift in how disk cloning and backup workflows are handled on Windows.

The process for verifying disk images changed under Mac OS X 10.4.9 and later, becoming more stringent. As as result, many users are receiving the message "The disk image you are opening may be ...

In some cases, a disk image will not mount in Mac OS X, giving the error message "Unable to mount disk. Broken pipe," or another. There are various potential ...

I just tried this on one of my spare image files. I see the same problem. However, if you launch disk utility, you'll see the images in the disk image ssection with an eject button next to it. If you ...

Security researchers analyzing malicious spam campaigns noticed an increase in delivering malware in disk image file formats, .ISO being the most prevalent. Today's phishing attacks are bypassing ...

Disk cloning and disk imaging are two processes that accomplish the same goal: They copy all of a hard drive's contents. It's possible to clone a disk by using a disk image, but the two are distinctly ...

One useful OS X feature is the ability to create disk images. A disk image is a single file that, when double-clicked, appears like a typical hard drive to the operating system. (Most software you ...

So Apple puts up the Xcode Tools 1.2 update as 21 disk image segments. Cute. Now, I have a lot of Macs here to update and some are not on the network. I would like to burn a CD with the installer on ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

Snow Leopard does something funny with disk images: It always defaults to showing their contents in Icons view, no matter what Finder view you prefer. A group of Mac OS X Hints readers discovered a ...