While you
will certainly minimize your chances of running into problems by following these maintenance
tips, it??™s good to know what to do if something does arise. That??™s the very reason for the
existence of the next chapter, called (and here we go with the car thing again) ???Getting Under
the Hood.???
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Chapter 23
Getting Under the Hood
464 How to Do Everything: Mac
How to ??¦
?– Open Disk Utility from the Mac OS X installation disc
?– Use Disk Utility to search for and resolve problems
?– Format and partition disks
?– Burn CDs or DVDs of disk images
Sometimes to resolve problems, you just can??™t avoid getting your hands dirty. If your car
is having problems starting up, you may have to get under the hood to check things out if
you??™ve already tried and failed to start it by turning the ignition switch over and over again.
Getting under your Mac??™s ???hood??? usually means bringing out the Disk Utility program to
examine your hard drives and repair any problems that may be found.
Get Familiar with Disk Utility
Disk Utility is Mac OS X??™s Swiss army knife.
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