A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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How to export files from hard drive in Snow Leopard CD?
I have a macbook 5,1 that won't startup. I'm going to reinstall Snow Leopard with the CD, but is there a way to export some of the files that are in it? I can't seem to gain access to them through the ...
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Why does my 3TB Seagate HD keep formatting as a Logical Volume Group
This is really annoying. I have a brand new Seagate 3TB 7200 RPM hard drive that I am trying to format/partition in Disk Utility. Every time I change any settings or erase the drive, it changes it to ...
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Mac Could Not Restart After a Kernel Panic
I was forced to restart MacBook Pro when a kernel panic happened about 2 hours ago... Since then my computer would just stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo every time I tried to reboot it. ...
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Any need to verify disks after hard reboot?
About every few days I need to reboot my 2012 MacBook Pro Retina.
I noticed these messages in the logs regarding "Journal is read-only and journal is dirty. Can not mount volume".
Any need to ...
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Mid 2010 i7 Macbook Pro 6,2 stuck at Apple logo on boot
Recently my 15 inch Macbook Pro (mid 2010, i7) hasn't been booting normally (No drops, no spills, etc). It just hasn't been able to boot normally. The issue I'm having is it only goes as far as the ...
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Stress Testing Your Mac For Optimal Performance?
Stress testing maybe considered a useful way to determine if your Mac is performing at its optimal level of performance & may also be an indicator of faults of any components within your Mac.
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For the Apple SSD drives, will they run slower with less free space available?
From what I understand, most SSDs will run slower once there is 20% or less free space available, due to TRIM/garbage collection. However, are Apple SSDs the same way?
The reason I ask is because ...
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Does mounting a large disk image require a certain amount of free space on the internal drive?
I've got a bunch of Mac disk images (.dmg files) that are 100 GB or larger. I'm currently on an iMac with a few hundred gigabytes of free space, but I'm going to be moving to a Mac laptop with 128 GB ...
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How to back up Boot Camp before upgrading my hard drive to an SSD?
I have a Macbook Pro which has a 750GB HDD. I'm currently using Bootcamp to run Win 7. If I want to upgrade the HDD to a SSD but keep my stuff from both the OS X side and the Win 7 side what are the ...
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Stress test a disk
I have a 1Gig disk that's about 3 years old. The other day it went south, with OSX telling me that it could not repair it and leaving it in read only mode. I was able to salvage everything on it.
Now ...
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Corsair GS 180 slowdown in Macbook Pro over a year's time
I installed a Corsair GS 180 SSD (revision 5.020000) in my Macbook Pro, around this time last year. (July 2012.) I ran the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test application, and ended up with:
Write: 219.0 MB/s
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some system binaries are lost
After installing some RAM my macbook pro would not start,
diskutil showed HDD failure.
Booting in single user mode and running fsck several times to repair the disk lead to a running system.
But ...
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How to verify when disk drive detection is done (diskutil will list all drives) during boot process?
In a system where SATA disks are connected to a third party (Highpoint) controller, the wish is to create a bash shell script that will run every system boot.
The shell script will test whether each ...
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Aperture: Library over multiple Hard Drives
I switched to Aperture some time ago. And right now, the moment has come that I want to save some space on my internal hard drive. What I found on the Apple website is this:
I can't seem to find ...
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How can I recover photos from a damaged MacBook?
My grandson spilled orange juice on my MacBook and ruined it. I bought an iPad to replace it, but I had dozens of old family pictures stored in iPhoto on the MacBook. Is there any way I can recover ...
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The safest, most reliable way to move files from drive A to drive B
I am trying to come up with the safest way to move data between two drives, designed to handle the worst possible circumstances. For example: if you were trying to move the only existing copies of ...
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Freezing, disk i/o problems iMac
I have a desktop iMac with Snow Leopard installed on it. Every few minutes, I get freezing and
"kernel disk0s2: I/O Error"
in my console. I did some research, and found that my hard drive (a WD I ...
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How to resize Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition after linux messed it up?
I've tried to use Ubuntu on my macbook pro (6,2), but it was a total and abject failure, mainly due to poor hardware support.
So, I have given up on my little experiment and just deleted ubuntu and ...
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Why is my Mac able to write to my NTFS hard drive?
My question is one of confusion. All over the internet I have seen people looking for the ability to use a Mac to write to NTFS, or people formatting drives to FAT32 so that their Mac can share a ...
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If I put my old mac hard disk system drive with bootcamp in a USB caddy, after replacing it with an SSD, will it appear as 2 drives when plugged in?
I'm going to replace my MacBookPro system drive / hard disk with an SSD. I will then re-install MacOS and Windows via bootcamp.
The original drive will be put in a USB caddy to be used as an external ...
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Running out of hard drive space, yet Disk Inventory shows only 190GB used vs. 480 GB used in HD Get Info? How is that possible?
I'm down to 20GB on a 500GB hard drive and would like to know what's eating up the disk space, so I can clear out any large things I no longer need.
2 screen shots are showing me Disk Inventory ...
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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 ...
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How can I browse the hard disk attached to my Airport Extreme from my iPhone?
I have a gen 5 AEBS which has a total of 3 HFS+ partitions across 2 USB hard drives (USB hub in the middle).
On my Macbook Pro Retina, I can see all 3 HFS+ partition in the Finder. Finder shows the ...
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Recover GPT Hard Disk files on Windows
My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT ...
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Macintosh HD missing after failed catalog btree rebuilding
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in ...
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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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How can i mount a disk to a folder? [duplicate]
My downloads folder is getting to big. I want to buy a new harddrive, create a folder on it and mount it to downloads in my home folder. What is the right way to do it? Should I just delete ...
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How to prevent “Incorrect block count for file” file system errors from occurring?
On our 10.7 Lion installation, 3 out of 9 drives are repeatedly suffering from
Incorrect block count for file
errors when running a diskutil repairVolume command.
The drives are having ...
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Hot File Clustering with multiple partitions
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition ...
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How to select which disks are allowed to sleep?
There is an option "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in Mac OS X's preferences:
Is it possible to configure which disks Mac OS X can put into a sleepy state? For example, I want to ...
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Fusion Drive: free space on SSD
Is there a possibility to find out how much storage is free on a SSD of a Fusion Drive disk (SSD + HDD as a logical device)? The structure I use is this one here:
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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restore MacBook from sparse image
I recently wiped my MBP hard drive as well as installing a new SSD.
I have a sparseimage backup of my old drive (created with Carbon Copy Cloner) that I want to restore onto the SSD.
I've tried to ...
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HD failure - recovery possible if system can't see drive?
I've got a 2.5" SATA HD in an enclosure, plugged into a Mac Pro (trying to see if I can use Data Rescue II to recover anything). Unfortunately, my system is not seeing the disk, either in Disk ...
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Is there a way to recover a disk when File Vault is used?
I'm trying to restore a crashed hard drive. Using Softtote Data Recovery for Mac, I have recovered 8000+ files. I can't use any of them. Brainstorming with the user, he forgot that he has File Vault ...
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Is it safe to shake/move macbook air while its running?
I had this laptop and i know it's flash drive so i dont think there are moving parts, is it safe to shake it or move it without worry ? turn it upside down while its running ? how safe is this ?
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How can I recover the key of an encrypted hard-drive?
I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.
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How to take out HDD (hard drive) from a G5
G5 is totally defunct, I trying to take out the HDD for archive purpose.
But realize ... there is no way for me to take out the casing.
Any idea?
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Why do I get back more disk space when I restart my Macbook on Mountain Lion 10.8.3?
I frequently run low on disk space on my laptop. When I'm down to my last gig or so on my 256MB SSD (as reported by iStat Menu), I'll get various warnings from the OS and apps saying that I'm running ...
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Eject Disk Image at logout with AppleScipt?
I would like to know how to use AppleScript to write a script that automatically ejects a disk image whenever the user logs out of their account.
This script would be the complementary inverse to a ...
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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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How to move all of my mails to external HD and make them appear only when its connected
I have 200 GB of mails, and I would like to place them in an external hard drive, and to make the appear, in the Mail.app, only when this external HD is connected.
Is this possible?
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Powerful external hard disk health checker on Mac?
Is there any powerful program in Mac to check the health status - mainly bad sectors - of an external (USB) hard disk, and to recover them?
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Why does the application in focus hang for several seconds when a drive spins up?
This has happened to me for as long as I have used Macs, I think.
Occasionally, Mac OS X remembers a long-forgotten disk, sometimes external, sometimes internal, and spins it up for some reason. And ...
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how do I reset or clear the list of Volumes?
I am running into this problem when I accidentally remove a USB drive without properly ejecting it or similar and then plug it back in.
When my drive is plugged back in it will apear normally, for ...
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Recover a deleted encrypted partition?
As my previous external HDD threw some disturbing SMART Warnings, I bought a new Hard Drive. It arrived earlier today, I formatted it and made some backups onto it at it has more space and I wanted to ...
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Mac Pro 2007 crashes repeatedly
Yesterday my Mac Pro 1,1 (2007) running 10.7 started freezing up. It keeps on doing this after restart. Usually it will perform one task, but when asked to do a second, it freezes. The cursor will ...
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Should the Sudden Motion Sensor be disabled with a hybrid hard drive?
I've read that it's ok to leave the SMS on with non-stock hard drives, but I've also seen that it can crash an SSD.
I have a Momentus XT with 4GB of solid state memory and 500GB of spinning platters.
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OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. What do I need to exclude?
OS X breaks if I apply HFS compression to the whole volume. (It won't boot.)
What do I need to exclude?
I've been able to compress large parts of it, but then I had to restore after I compressed ...
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Can I Mount a Hard Drive in Mac Pro Tower as Read Only?
I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID ...
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Should I stop using my Mac while the hard disk is being cloned?
As one of my backup solutions, I use an app (SuperDuper!, if it makes any difference) to make a clone of my Mac at the same time every evening. Sometimes I am still working at that time. What I want ...
