Apple's built-in disk management utility for the mac. Erases, formats, and restores volumes and drives.
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Understanding how safe boot fixed a boot problem
Background
My friend asked me to look at her early 2011 Mac Mini with OS X 10.8.3. She said that:
she installed software updates
she couldn't remember which updates were installed
when the Mac ...
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Detecting a drive (dead or alive) loaded in optical bay
I loaded a SSD into the optical bay of my 2011 MBP today, and initially it was picked up just fine - I used disk utility to format it to extended journalled, and set about moving files onto it with ...
2
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1answer
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USB drive stuck on read only
So my usb drive is stuck on read only and I have tried many different options which I have gotten from different websites.
I have tried to restore/erase in disk utility but the options are greyed ...
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0answers
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MacBook Pro Mid-2009 13 inch does not recognize replaced hard drive
As the title states, I recently got a used Hard Drive from another MacBook Pro and installed it into my MacBook. The problem, is the laptop will not recognize it at all. The old hard drive just goes ...
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1answer
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Carbon copy cloner to image OS X lion and restore from disk image
Is it possible to create an image of my 64gb 2012 Macbook Air using Carbon Copy Cloner so that I can recover from that image (if my Mac does not boot) when I am not connected to the internet? I can ...
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When creating a RAID 1 mirror set, do you need to have both disks available or can one be added later?
I'm planning my transition to Mac OS and I have a pair of mirrored drives I would like to move to my future computer. Since they are currently formatted as NTFS they will need to be reformatted during ...
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1answer
23 views
Unable to eject or erase USB drives
I'm unable to eject USB drives. When I try, I get this error:
The disk "Untitled" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may
be using it.
To eject the disk immediately, click the Force ...
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1answer
30 views
Move of time machine backup: unable to “restore”
I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error :
source volume is read-write and cannot be ...
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0answers
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Encrypted/Journaled Seagate won't accept Password
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro Intel running Mountain Lion. I have a 2tb Seagate External Drive with 3 partitions: all three were set up the same way with different passwords as a person who used to live ...
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1answer
55 views
Can a file be copied to one hard drive in a RAID 1 mirror set (software RAID), and later have the 2 drives sync up?
I think I read that we can set up a RAID 1 mirror set (software RAID) using OS X Mountain Lion using Disk Utilities, and later plug in one drive and copy a file to that drive, and later on, plug both ...
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0answers
50 views
Run Disk Utility on Snow Leopard with lost system disk
I have some errors on the hard drive of my mid-2006 iMac that is running OS X 10.6.8. I need to boot off the system disk to run Disk Utility. Unfortunately, after looking throughout my house, I could ...
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1answer
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Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install?
I've inherited an almost brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ...
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1answer
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Can I “restore” an iso image to my hdd to be bootable?
I removed my superdrive a while back but now I want to install a linux partition on my macbook. I installed rEFInd as my boot manager but now I need to boot into the arch linux iso. Normally I would ...
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1answer
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Image files made with Disk Utility creates parent folder
I'm using OS X 10.5.8., updated from 10.5.2. which I installed from the two installation DVDs that came with my MB404 MacBook.
I recently found my original 10.5.2. installation DVDs, which I thought ...
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1answer
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How to mount Linux_RAID on osx
I have a NAS that broke and it used linu_RAID as its format type. How do I mount this in OSX?
Similar to this one...
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1answer
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Hard Drive Preview / Disk Utility Used Space Discrepancy? [duplicate]
So I recently cleared a lot of space off of my hard drive as a sort of "spring cleaning," and I got it down to less than 40GB, but my computer doesn't seem to agree with itself on that. If I look at ...
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3answers
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How to auto-run disk repair on OS X after each system crash?
How to auto-run disk repair on OS X 10.8+ after each system crash?
Note: I am not looking for a manual solution.
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1answer
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Replace a failed disk in a Disk Utility RAID 1
I have LaCie 2big thunderbolt 2-disk device configured as a RAID1 from Disk Utility. One of the drives appears as "failed", so I unmounted the raid, replaced the drive and plugged it all back in.
Now ...
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1answer
136 views
Fix slow startup after utility disk repair on a SSD
I have a 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 series with Trim support enabled installed on a mid-2009 13" Macbook pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8, 2.26GHz, 8Gb of RAM) and I experience extremely slow startup after ...
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1answer
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diskutil coreStorage in Lion fails to create a concatenated LVG, error -69886
I would like to create a logical volume group (LVG) with two physical disks.
Issue
The command:
diskutil coreStorage create LVGNAME /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2
returns:
Started CoreStorage ...
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2answers
359 views
How to repair external hard drive that fails diskutil with 'Disk Full Error'
If I run fsck_hfs -y -d /dev/rdisk2s10 it putters along, rebuilds the catalog B-tree then fails when writing the new catalog to disk.
bash-3.2# fsck_hfs -d -y /dev/rdisk2s10
** /dev/rdisk2s10
Using ...
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1answer
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Erasing partition doesn't give me free diskspace
I'm using a Macbook Air and until today I had two partitions on it (not counting the restore partition). I had my OSX partition and an Ubuntu partition.
As I don't use Ubuntu anymore, I decided to ...
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1answer
329 views
Unable to adjust partition of USB drive with Mountain Lion Disk Utility
I have a 500 GB USB drive, which I once partitioned into two parts: one encrypted—Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted), and the other not—Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Now I want to change the ...
2
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1answer
305 views
Disk Utility: Incorrect number of file hard links
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Mid 2009 MBP. Recently(for last few months) it's acting really slow. Simplest actions are taking forever to perform. So I verified disk using the Disk Utility and it ...
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0answers
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How do I force a partition and format on a USB key in OS X Mountain Lion Disk Utility or from CLI diskutil?
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome.
It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+.
I've tried to do this through ...
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2answers
441 views
Mac Hard Drive Testing Tools and SMART Analysis
How good is SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for really finding and predicting drive problems for regular hard drives and now, for SSDs.
From what I understand, different ...
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0answers
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How to order partitions in diskutil?
I have the same problem as this guy
How to resize Macintosh HD?
But :
In the 2nd answer @paulgrav uses diskutil
Now I have this second issue :
Does someone know how to reorder the partitions in ...
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1answer
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How to remove the use of master boot record from an external hard drive?
I have a 1TB external hard drive and I want to slice it into different partitions. When I try to do so, I get this error:
can not modify external drive because it uses master boot record
Is ...
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0answers
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Installed boot camp, OS X start taking forever to start up, Open error 5 for battery
Just installed boot camp.
Now OS X starts up in like 6 minutes.
My partitions are 331 - OS X; 169 - Windows.
More importantly, and I think related: My battery status is no longer showing up.
...
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1answer
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How can I reformat a drive that contains an encrypted volume?
After OS X 10.7 came out with its disk-encryption features, I encrypted an empty USB thumb drive just for grins. I never used it, and eventually decided to reformat it as a normal drive for use with ...
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0answers
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How do I format an encrypted Integral Secure Key?
I just bought an Integral Secure Key from the Apple store but am fed up with having to use its own software just to transfer files to it as it does not appear as a normal USB drive in Finder.
How can ...
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4answers
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What to do when my Time Machine drive is getting disk errors?
My Time Machine drive is getting disk errors. I used Disk Utility and ran "Repair Disk" on my Time Machine partition (NOT the drive) and I got the error "Incorrect number of directory hard links" ...
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1answer
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How to convert .dmg to Directory-folder
I just Create one Directory to .dmg file using Disk Utility. Can anyone Please Tel me how to convert .dmg file in to older Directory-folder.
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1answer
439 views
hdiutil convert/rsize resource temporarily unavailable
When trying to convert or resize a dmg image I get the error:
hdiutil: convert failed Resource Temporarily Unavailable error
or
hdiutil: resize: failed. Resource temporarily unavailable (35).
...
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1answer
551 views
What kind of encryption does Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrptyed) use?
Since my primary hard disk is encrypted with FileVault2, I also wanted my backup drive to be encrypted. I plugged in my external drive, brought up Disk Utility, and went to erase/format the disk. I ...
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1answer
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What are next steps when fsck reports “could not be repaired after 3 attempts”?
My Mac Book Pro 13.-" doesn´t get past the grey booting screen with the apple and the spinning wheel (The loading bar appears but when it´s done nothing happens)
I have 220 GB in one single ...
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1answer
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Single User Mode can´t repair my HD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are next steps when fsck reports “could not be repaired after 3 attempts”?
Hi Guys I hope someone can save me!!!
I´m so stupid that I don´t have a backup of my ...
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0answers
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How to avoid diskutil from running on next boot?
OSX keeps trying to run diskutil to check my hard drive whenever I boot the system. Problem is it hangs up and reboots during the checking.
The system was running fine before rebooting. I suspect it ...
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2answers
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Backing up HDD to restore it on another SSD
I want to switch out my current HDD for a SSD in my Mac. However I don't want to reinstall the OS and all my software.
How can I backup (image) the entire HDD to restore it later as image with Disk ...
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4answers
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Forgot my password to a disk image (.sparseimage)
I'm in trouble right now.
I used Disk Utility to create a sparse image and I cannot remember the password, when I created the file I didn't select to remember in keychain.
Now, I try to enter the ...
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0answers
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Does Mac has Something like SuperCache?
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/supercache.php
It basically cache all read write. It also delay writes up to 5 seconds.
Since I am using it my computer becomes MUCH faster. It's as if I am using ...
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1answer
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Restoring an SD card using a multi-partitioned DMG
I have a linux distribution that I installed on an SD card. After the lengthy installation was finished I created a DMG backup of all the partitions using the Mac's built in disk utility. The recovery ...
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1answer
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How to image and deploy a Bootcamp setup?
We are rolling out iMac's and MacBook Pro's throughout the business and are setting them up with Boot Camp and an option to boot into Windows 7. Essentially the partition is just split down the ...
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2answers
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What are the sector sizes on Mac OS X?
I read on the HFS Plus Wikipedia page that the default sector size on a Mac is 512 b. However, I also read that Macs support 4kb sectors. How can I determine which I have, 512 b or 4 kb sectors? I ...
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Erase MacBook hard drive without OSX disc
I would like to erase everything on my Mac's hard drive as I'm going to recycle or sell it. Is there a way to do it without OSX disc?
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1answer
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Can't I resize my existing partition?
I tried installing Win 7 into my Mac so I can dual boot and use Win 7 but then again changed my mind about it but i have already partitioned a separate drive for windows. I deleted it and tried ...
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0answers
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Resize Boot Camp partition
I installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp. Now I've figured out I should have made the Windows 8 partition bigger. Is this safe to attempt using Disk Utility? If not, how do I go about ...
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0answers
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Bootcamp assistant won't let me increase the Windows partition
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on my Mac. The Bootcamp Assistant won't let me increase the Windows partiton's size above ~45 GB. I've got 200 GB free out of 500 GB on my SSD.
I run Disk Repair, but ...
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1answer
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How can I delete everything from my MacBook Pro before selling it?
I have a Mac that runs Snow Leopard and I intend to upgrade it to Mountain Lion and sell it on ebay. However, I only have one hard-drive, and I'm sure I can't use something in my OS to delete my OS ...
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4answers
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How to resize Macintosh HD?
In my disk utilty, I have some unused space left over.
I want to resize Macintosh HD to use this space.
Whats the best way to resize Macintosh HD? Disk Utility won't let me resize it whether I'm ...
