A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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External hard drive not indexed by Spolight on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I recently bought a new hard drive and it is not indexed by Finder. I tried to get it re-indexed by following this tutorial: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330114-263.html and I even tried ...
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Mount 'target' machine over Firewire (Possible to bypass DMA after 10.7.2?)
Is it possible to mount/read data from a hdd over firewire that is not booted into 'target' mode?
My scenario
cMBP 1
cMBP 2 (target) this machine is fully encrypted without a efi password.
I know ...
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ZEVO: anyone have access to a current road map?
I've recently installed ZEVO on my Mac Pro and I'm looking forward to what ZFS will provide with data integrity, pool management and drive handling.
Wondering if there is a current road map?
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Disk cloning fails due to wrong format
I am attempting to clone a 120gb Mac disk to a new 500gb hard disk. The hard disk has previously been used as an external disk on a PC, but has been reinitialised for Mac. However, it seems that no ...
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What doesn't get cloned to new hard drive in Super Duper?
I recently upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro HDD to an SSD. I went from a 500GB HDD to a 512GB SSD (Crucial M4). I formatted the new SSD using Disk Utility into Mac OS X Journaled file system. I then used ...
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Is it possible to mount a hard drive to the back of a cinema display?
I'm looking for a way to mount a Thunderbolt Hard Drive to the back of a Cinema Display. I remember seeing a way for a hard drive to be mounted to the original monitor stand, but I am using this ...
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Make alias on a NTFS external disk
I have an external drive formatted in NTFS. When I "Make Alias" with Finder, the alias is recognized as a Unix executable file. I'm using a third party NTFS app to write on this NTFS drive.
I'm not ...
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Is there a way to monitor the stack of execution in order to find the longest hangs?
Related to this unsolved mystery: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/62416/why-do-i-get-serious-execution-lag-on-clicks-application-switching-and-general
I'm wondering if there's a way to see which ...
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How to fix this disk has 2 partions popup on external HD
I've been recently getting this message when I try to eject my external HD, I only use it for Time Machine backups. How do I stop this message form appearing?
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Fresh install or Cloning when migrating from HDD to smaller SSD (considering fragmentation, mostly)?
I own a mid 2010 6,2 MBP and I am considering the upgrade to a SSD. I would probably get a 256GBs SSD and replace my optical drive for the older HDD, so I can have a little more of capacity, as I ...
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Macbook won't boot, possibly HDD issue
I am posting this for a friend who is having this problem but obviously can't post this himself as his computer will not boot up. He started having problems after a video game crashed during online ...
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Can hard drives have their own sleep settings?
Is there a tool that will allow me to set the sleep settings on a per-drive basis? I've recently done the optibay mod on my MBP so I have an HD+SSD setup and I'd like to be able to make the magnetic ...
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Seagate USB 3.0 Express card on OSX Mountain Lion
since OSX Mountain Lion brings in native USB3.0 support, did any one try the seagate USB 3.0 upgrade cable package with express card adapter?
According to seagate KB ...
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Mac Mini with two Western Digital external Hard Drives in RAID
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am trying to set up a 2 TB and 3 TB hard drive set in a RAID so it will look like a 5 TB drive. I did it on 10.7 and it was fine but every time I try to set it up on ...
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Disk vanishes after reformatting as encrypted
I've always assumed (and relied on the fact that) Disk Utility provides direct access to disks, listing them at the top level in its user interface, and providing a variety of disk-specific ...
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HD accidentally reformatted to MBR, how to get back to GUID?
So in trying to create an MBR partition of my hard drive which I could then use to boot a solaris-derivative OS using rEFIt, I messed up. Rather than a hard drive with a primary GUID partition map ...
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Can I restore a disk image to a different disk?
I have a 2008/9 160 GB 13" MBP that is under Lion's full disk file vault. I made a disk image of it (.sparseimage) with CCC on an external hard drive. I have a new 250 GB retina MBP, and I connected ...
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Is it possible to have individual sleep settings on drives on a per-drive basis?
I recently installed an SSD in my 2009 MBP and replaced the DVD-drive with the original HD. It has transformed an ageing machine beyond recognition.
However the battery now seems to be draining much ...
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How to auto mount internal SATA hard disk drives after power failure/interruption?
In a system with a boot drive and two internal SATA drives. The internal drives are connected via a Highpoint Rocketraid controller and are configured without any RAID and operate in legacy mode.
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Transfer data to rMBP from external hard drive?
I got the new rMBP and tried importing my stuff to it via an external HD. Seems like it didn't work. And Migration Assistant didn't either. Has anyone done this successfully?
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Keeping a disk image mounted after logout
Is there a way not to automatically unmount a mounted disk image after a logout? I'd like to have it already mounted when I log in the next time but I don't need to always mount it at login (so ...
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How do I keep a partition from loading and connecting on startup?
I have a Mac Pro with four drives that all load on start up, and show up on the desktop as they should. The problem lies in the Windows 7 drive, as it also load and connects a System Restore ...
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Cannot read internal hard drive
My MacBook Pro (Mac OS X Snow Leopard) would not start up and the apple service guy suggest me to take the internal hard drive and back up the data to another computer using an external hard drive ...
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How do I not accidentally eject external drives?
I have a Mac Mini with a few external drives connected that I use as a home server. Normally the Eject buttons next to the drive icon are really handy as they let me eject an external drive very ...
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Increase cloned Lion partition to larger hard drive
After using a commercial hard drive cloner (bit for bit) to clone a 250GB hard drive of a Lion install to a 1TB hard drive, I am unable to increase the size of the partition. Is there a way to force ...
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how do I create an ISO/CDR file from a hard disk?
Presently I am attempting to back up my whole computer's primary hard drive to an ISO file. When I attempt to do this using Disk Utility, I perform the following steps:
Open disk utility and choose ...
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How to make ntfs-3g drive visible in Finder
I was using Tuxera NTFS for a while on my external drives but then my trial ran out.
So then I installed ntfs-3g from macports.
When I connect my external drive, OSX automatically mounts it, but it ...
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ISO 9660 on Lion. “No Mountable Filesystems”
I have a collection iso images that all mount on an imac running snow leopard but not on my 2011 MBP with Lion. They are formatted iso 9660, but I don't know at what level.
When I mount them with ...
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Kernel: I/O error on new OWC Mercury 6G SSD
I bought a mid 2011 Mac Mini mit dedicated graphic card along with the iFixit dual hard-drive kit and a OWC Mercury 6G SSD.
After I installed the ssd into the Mac Mini with as second hard drive, the ...
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Hard drive space disappearing after mounting external drive
I have recently purchased a WD Elements SE 1Tb external drive. I have set it up with dual partitions: FAT32 (primary) and HFS+ (secondary).
I also have a Macbook Pro 13 running Snow Leopard 10.6.6. I ...
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Replacing HDD on 2007 17" iMac
My iMac's HDD has died so I need to replace it. I don't just want to go like for like, does anyone know what the upper limits of the machine are?
I have a 1TB USB drive plugged in, so I'm assuming ...
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osx split external hard drive partition
I currently have a 640GB external HD that has 1 partition formatted as HSF+ Now I want to split some of the free space into a new FAT32 partition, without having to reformat the whole HD and losing ...
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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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Will this hard drive work with my 2009 15 macbook pro unibody?
Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive
i need to know if this hard drive will work with my computer?
I have 8 GB of ...
