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WD Passport External USB Drive - Really slow on Macbook
I just got a Western Digital 2 TB "My Passport" USB drive and connected it to my macbook pro (it says it supports USB 3). But when I tried to copy my photo library it said it would take 40 hours?
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External Harddrive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
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MBP 13 Retina - Installing Windows 7 and Moving files to external disk
I have a Macbook Pro 13 Retina and I wanted to bootcamp Windows 7 and install a game or two but I only have a SSD 128gb so I would like to install the bootcamp and then move the files to external ...
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USB 2.0 hard disk does not show up
I have a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display that doesn't work with my USB 2 hard disk. It doesn't mount, doesn't show up in Disk Utility, and doesn't even show up in System Information in the ...
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Dual FireWire External HDD and second port performance
Backstory: There is a drive that comes to mind out there that has two FireWire 800 ports. My question is related to performance of the second port. In my case, I would like to hook up an external ...
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No-Entry sign when attempting to install Mac OS X [closed]
I'm having a problem with a 2007 MacBook Pro when trying to install Mac OS X Lion from an external HD:
When it boots from the HD, the Apple logo shows up, then for around 30 seconds reads a lot from ...
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Make external optical drive appear identical to internal SuperDrive?
Is there a way to make a external optical drive appear to applications as though it were an internal SuperDrive? I am using the optical drive bay in my MacBook Pro for a secondary hard drive, and I ...
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Can 2010 MacBook Pro power 2 daisy chained FW800 external HDs?
I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro (model MacBookPro6,2) with 2.66 gHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB RAM from mid 2010.
Right now, I use a LaCie Firewire 800 bus powered Little Big Disk Quadra which works well. ...
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Boot MacBook Pro into non OSX operating system from external harddisk
I have a MacBook Pro and an external HDD with Ubuntu, I can use this HDD to boot other machines into Ubuntu but no amount of pressing option would make my MacBook Pro think that the drive is bootable.
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