Is your Mac OS X hard drive damaged? Do you need to format or repartition the hard drive? If ‘Yes’, Disk Utility is the tool that can help you. It is an in-built tool of Mac OS X operating system, used to perform hard drive-related operations. It enables you to create disk image, mount/unmount hard drive, enable/disable journaling, change/add partition table, check hard drive integrity, and repair damaged disk. The disk repair option of Disk Utility helps you to fix hard drive related errors, prevent data loss, and need of Mac Recovery solutions.

In Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier versions, you cannot use the Disk Utility to verify file structure of boot drive and repair directory structure of active startup disk. However, in Mac OS X 10.4.3 and later versions, Disk Utility can be used to verify the startup disk. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you can use this tool for live partitioning of hard drive. Live partitioning is the process of creating, resizing, and deleting the hard drive partitions without erasing them.

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