Have you ever experienced an issue where a disk image is mounted then subsequently unmounted, but disk space of the same quantity as the image remains occupied on your startup volume (hard disk)? If ...

You can turn any Mac folder into a disk image to lock its contents behind a password. Here's how to password protect your ...

Sometimes a specific disk image in OS X will automatically mount if a file on it is targeted by the system. Here are some methods for fixing this issue. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

An archive or disk image may have utility in speeding up a whole disk backup because the internal file structure is now hidden from the file system. Instead of numerous files and directories in the ...

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 ...

I purchased a license of Windows 7 Ultimate from my university. I plant to upgrade a Windows 7 Home PC to Ultimate and then to Windows 10 Pro. It much cheaper than purchasing the Pro upgrade from MS.

The New York Public Library’s digital curator of performing arts Doug Reside has posted a useful guide to recovering old data from floppy discs. The New York Public Library’s digital curator of ...

Apple's APFS proprietary file system is suffering from a disk image vulnerability that could lead to data loss, according to an Apple software developer. APFS, which simply stands for Apple File ...

Disk image tools allow you to take physical discs and drives—DVDs, hard drives, and other media—and turn them into virtual images for ease of storage and manipulation. Here's a look at five of the ...

Microsoft says its advanced machine learning threat detection models have helped its staff detect multiple malicious spam (malspam) campaigns distributing disk image files infected with malware. The ...