A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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iMac refuses to boot, Disk Utility always says there are drive errors it can't repair — what to do?
This is a follow on to the question I asked about replacing the hard drive in my iMac. The restore from TimeMachine finished and the machine still won't boot. Just the white screen, Apple logo and ...
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MBP not booting, but HD seems fine
My late 2009 unibody MBP won't boot. I have already booted in single user mode, ran fsck -fy until I get no errors. But when typing 'exit' or rebooting in verbose mode I see, after fsck runs:
Failed ...
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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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How to pinpoint cause of disk I/O errors
I am getting (seemingly random) disk I/O errors on my bootdrive. At first I thought it was caused by a faulty hard drive, but now I've replaced it and I still get those errors.
These are the steps I ...
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Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller caps link speed
Why is my SATA controller capping the link speed? This is what it says in my System Profiler under the Serial-ATA page:
Vendor: NVidia
Product: MCP79 AHCI
Link Speed: ...
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Will a standard MacBook Pro optical-bay HDD caddy fit a non-unibody MacBook Pro?
I have an early 2008 A1226 15" MacBook Pro Santa Rosa (ie non-unibody), and I want to put an HDD in the optical bay (replacing my original HDD with an SSD). There are caddies like this that might do ...
