In this section, you will find the most common questions regarding disk and volume issues. More specifically, we will cover the following questions:
- What is a helpful tool for troubleshooting and repairing partition and volume issues?
- My Mac is unresponsive. What can I do to attempt to recover the data in the system volume?
- How can I repair the startup disk in a Mac with the Apple M1 silicon chip?
We'll address these questions here.
What is a helpful tool for troubleshooting and repairing partition and volume issues?
Disk Utility First Aid is a feature that can help you verify and repair partition schemes and volume directory structures. Disk Utility can detect and possibly repair problems such as corrupted files, external devices not working properly, or the system disk not successfully starting up the Mac. However, take into account that not all disk problems can be repaired; for example, an input/output (I/O) error, as shown in the following...
