To combat this behavior, several states are considering enacting "Right to Repair" acts that would force companies to make required parts and documentation available to anyone who wants to repair their own gadgets. If you run it yourself from the terminal you get to specify quite a few options. By taking this step, Disk Utility will work through your hard drive to detect broken or misbehaving permissions and list them for repair. Select Macintosh HD from the left sidebar menu. But compared with those paid software, Disk Utility is more reliable as its built inside. Press Command + Space to open Spotlight, type in Disk Utility, and hit Enter. Many other utilities are only front ends that internally launch and run fsck. Many people are looking for good third-party disk management tools. I think it was written about 36 years ago in 1979.
As Motherboard points out, John Deere uses a similar software to prevent farmers from performing "unauthorized" repairs on their vehicles.Ĭompanies who prevent third-party repairs have been accused of forcing customers into purchasing new devices and ensuring that the money for repairs goes right back into their pockets. This has been THE disk scan and fix utility on Unix systems for a long time. A "quick health check of hardware and software" is conducted as part of this final diagnostics test.Īpple isn't the only company using proprietary methods to restrict repairs. The software tool appears to be used to ensure the safety and overall health of the repaired Apple device. If you really fancy a consumer-oriented drive formatted for Windows (which will usually come pre-formatted in the NTFS format), you can use the Disk Utility in.