Apple's built-in disk management utility for the mac. Erases, formats, and restores volumes and drives.
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Single User Mode can´t repair my HD [duplicate]
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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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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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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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What is the best way to clone a disk between two Macs?
What is the best way to clone a disk between two Macs? I ask this every couple years or so and every time I get the same answer. "Use Carbon Copy Cloner", they say. But the unfortunate fact is that ...
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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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Unable to increase Macintosh HD partition size with data in a subsequent partition
I can't make my main Macintosh HD partition bigger. It's limited by the FAT partition in the middle, which seems to be frozen, I can't move it down to make space for my main partition.
To get some ...
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What terminal command or program can list an SSD's Power On Hours?
I'm looking to script using the unix shell the retrieval of SSD (and HDD) data that disk utility shows in the information window.
I'm immediately interested in the Power On Hours and Power Cycle, ...
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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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How do I restore a Windows 7 DMG file to Boot Camp (and make it bootable)?
My iMac's HD died last week, and so I was unable to access OS X (I had a Time Machine backup of it though). Fortunately I was able to boot into the Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to backup Boot Camp ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Why does OS X now think I have two partitions on my external USB drive (plus random connection issue)?
I have an external USB drive that I have plugged into a USB hub, which gets unplugged from my computer about once a day. Most of the time I remember to unmount the drive before disconnecting so that ...
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Disk Utility: choose disk or volume?
When using disk utility to verify/repair permissions (or verify/repair the disk itself), I've never been clear whether I should perform operations on the disk ("WDC WD1200BEVE-00WZT0" in my case) or ...
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How can I tell which volume the operating system is on?
I'll admit that I am kind of rolling multiple questions in to one here so please forgive me and try not to knock me for it.
I am new to Mac but I'm trying to port one of my Java applications to OS X. ...
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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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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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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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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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Unable to create a partition to install Mac OS X
When I try to install Mac OS X there is no partition for me to choose. I tried to create a partition and got the error, "Partition failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disc."
Anyone have a clue? ...
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How can I reconfigure the RAID settings on a Maxtor OneTouch III?
I have a 1TB Maxtor OneTouch III. This is the drive that comes with two 500GB disks and software to configure RAID 0 (mirroring) with 500GB of storage, or full use of both disks for 1TB of storage. ...
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Disk utility can't add partitions
I have two partitions - one with Mac OS, and another with Windows 7 (created by Bootcamp). Now, I want to create two more partitions for Linux - LINUX and LINUXSWAP. I open Disk Utility and specify ...
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What is the layout of a real Apple supplied fusion drive?
Would someone who has a fusion drive that they bought directly from Apple please provide diskutil output sufficient to describe the choices they made?
I've seen lots of different sets of advice for ...
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Completely erased my Leopard machine from another computer, how do I install an OS on it?
I started up my computer in Target Disk Mode and erased it from a friends Mac thinking that I could then install Mountain Lion without installing Snow Leopard. Do I have any way of getting my machine ...
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Is there a difference between WD Hard Drive utilities for RAID or Disk Utilities?
I have a WD "My Book Thunderbolt Duo" 6TB.
I have the option to format the disk using the WD utilities or to do something custom with Disk Manager.
Is there any difference in functionality between ...
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Disk repair failed after using osx with hibernated windows/bootcamp with macdrive
I forgot I just closed the lid of my MBP the last time I used Windows/Bootcamp (instead of shutting it down) and that triggered hibernation.
The next time I powered my MBP on, OS X started ...
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The encryption of an external drive in 10.7.5 does not seem to work. “Conversion Status: NoConversion”
On a Mac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 I have attempted to encrypt an external drive using Disk Utility.
Since this is 10.7, there is no option of right-clicking to encrypt in Finder. Also, there's no ...
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Install knoppix on usb with disk utility?
I have downloaded the linux distro knoppix.
I have snow leopard and i want to make a bootable usb with the above distro with the disk utility.
I put the source to be the iso of the distro and ...
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iMac restart issue
I've got a 21.5", late 2011 iMac which has been acting up lately: after a normal shutdown, the computer would hang at the Apple logo, with the spinning 'loading' wheel below it. I managed to fix this ...
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Why do external hard drives stop working under very specific conditions?
I have a mid 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running Lion.
I have seen this behavior across 3 different external hardrives, with varying manufacturers (2x Seagate, 1 Western Digital), different file system ...
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Can Disk Utility and Disk Warrior be used on a Fusion volume containing Mac OS X
I have Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 running in a VMware Fusion 4.1.3 virtual machine. When I run a Disk Utility "Verify Disk" from within the VM, errors are reported.
Invalid B-tree node size
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Changing a Volume's “Device / Media Name”
I know a Mac volume can be renamed... obviously.
But if you look at the output of diskutil you will see that a volume also has a "device name" that corresponds to the name it was given when it was ...
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What techniques for disk, volume and file system management are possible with OS X, but troublesome within Disk Utility?
In the past, Disk Utility was the best starting point for the vast majority of disk-related tasks.
As technologies within (or possible with) OS X have developed – without equal development of Disk ...
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How to clean up partitions after OS X is moved from HD to SSD
Yesterday an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my ...
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i think my harddrive died? did an internet recovery, whats the status of my computer? can't restore from backup until i get home
so for some reason my 2011 MBP died on my way to work this morning? when i got in and booted it up, it froze. i restarted it and got a flashing folder with a question mark on it.
what does this mean ...
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How do I erase an encrypted TimeMachine drive on Mountain Lion if I've forgotten the password?
My question is similar to this question. I have a USB drive that contains an old encrypted backup. I don't remember the password and don't care about loosing the backup - I just want to be able to use ...
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Boot Camp / Partitioning Weirdness
I have a MacBook Pro, running 10.8.2. I'd like to give Windows 8 a go, using Boot Camp. Now, I've probably done a b Boot Camp install of Windows close to 10 times, on multiple Macs, but I'm stumped ...
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Creation of Image / Netboot Image stops at 4 GB
I try to create a Netboot Image / Image according to this documentation
Apple Netboot Image
And I tried it on different System and different external harddrives (mac os extended journaled, ntfs) and ...
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Time Machine Drive Failure
So, I started up my computer a couple days ago, and OS X reported that my Time Machine Drive had some damage and that I could view files, but not copy anything to the drive. After verifying with disk ...
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Is it safe to enable the hidden disk image formats and debug menu in Disk Utility, and what are its purposes?
I'm primarily interested to know whether installation of Lion included the Recovery System.
I understand you can enable extra formats and debugging in Disk Utility, using the following commands:
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Recovering data off of a dead hard drive
My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk ...
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Can I have an Encrypted Partition in a 2 Partitions USB Stick?
I have a new 16Gb USB key and want to take advantage of Disk Utilities feature to encrypt it, however I do need to move data from Mac to Windows from time to time.
Is is it possible to have one FAT ...
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HD scan in Mountain Lion
I suspect a faulty drive. Anything that could perform a hardware scan (bad sectors?) built into Mountain Lion or available for free off the 'net?
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How to enable “Repair disk button”?
Here what happened with me today. TimeMachine asked me whether I want to set a backup disk, I've answered yes, but then, when I've realized that in order to backup anything TimeMachine will clean the ...
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Disk Utility Error “Storage system verify or repair failed”
Installed Lion on a brand new HDD. Boots fine, but when I run Disk Utility on the Media, it reports
Verifying partition map for “WDC WD10JPVT-16A1YT0 Media”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the ...
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What Mac utilities can fix a “crashed” Windows 7 hard drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair an NTFS partition from Lion?
I have a crashed hard drive from a Windows 7 system.
I want to restore some files from it on a Mac.
Are there any ...
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SD card is read-only, all Disk Utility options grayed out
I'm using Lion (10.7.3) on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I just got a 32GB SD card and formatted it with my camera. I'd like to transfer some files onto it from my computer, but the card seems to be ...
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Resizing Disk Partition works for some but not for others
I have a external hard drive that is partitioned using Disk utility into:
1) one partition per machine for Time Machine backup
2) for work disk
3) for file archive
4) for OS back ups
While the ...
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How to install Mountain Lion on a disk that cannot be formatted in recovery mode?
I'm trying to do a clean install of Mountain Lion but I'm not being able to format my partition.
I previously had Lion, encrypted the disk, then upgraded to Mountain Lion, then booted into recovery ...
