A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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My seagate disk that was detectable earlier is now showing SMART status “not supported”. Anyone experienced similar thing before?
External hard disk seagate is not readable suddenly and when i click on "Initialize", i am taken to Disk Utility which among other things also says "S.M.A.R.T status" isnt supported. What options do I ...
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Time machine: network hard drive vs Time Capsule
I read that is possible to set up a Network Hard Disk in order to connect it to the router and perform wireless Time Machine backups on the Hard Disk.
What are the pros and cons of using a Network ...
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How to isolate the most disk-active process(es) in OS X?
I have some process(es) performing a lot of drive access from time to time, however I've hitherto been unable to isolate which process or processes are performing the access. What shell command can I ...
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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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Is defragmenting an SSD drive a bad idea?
I have heard that defragmenting SSD drives will shorten the life span of a drive. Just wondering if there is any truth to this and if so could someone elaborate as to why this happens.
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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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MacBook Pro hard disk failure. How to recover and clean install?
I have a MacBook pro, 2009, 13 inch, Original Snow leopard OS.
Recently, I was experiencing that my MacBook some times froze or restarted automatically! I didn't care, and one day it did not start!
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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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Can I use TimeMachine with a Thunderbolt hard drive?
The Apple technicians told me that I needed a specific device to use Time Machine... namely a wireless device that had a relatively small hard drive.
Since I use Oracle Virtual Box and have very ...
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Mid 2009 MacBook Pro HDD/SSD upgrade suggestion? [duplicate]
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Trouble with SSD/HDD in Macbook Pro Mid 2009
I have a mid 2009 15" 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro with 8 GB RAM and a 250 GB HDD. Recently, I purchased a WD 1TB 2.5" 5400 hard ...
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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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Is it necessary to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down?
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before logging out, restarting, or shutting down? (The drives are not being unplugged.)
BTW, I am aware that I need to eject my ...
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Swap Hard Disks
Is it in principle possible to swipe the hard disk out of a MacBook, swipe a new (blank) hard disk in, install the OS on the new disk, then swipe the old disk back in and find the machine operational ...
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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 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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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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Howto resize copied HFS+ partition above original size (320GB)?
I am running OS X Lion and my laptop has a 320GB drive. I bought a larger drive (750GB) and cloned the entire device from the old drive to the new using GNU ddrescue. After cloning everything looks ...
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How can I keep my fan from staying at full speed after replacing the hard drive?
I replaced a hard drive in a 2011 iMac (Core i7), though it was a standard hard drive and didn't have a location for the S.M.A.R.T. cord. (Or at least I think that's what it was.) Since then, the ...
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Hard disk full error!
My Macbook Pro mid 2012 (non-retina display) keeps showing me that the startup disk is full. I have only one partition for the whole system and it is 750 GB in size. I am sure that all my files ...
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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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Can I place a Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS in a MacPro1,1?
I have a bare WD1002FBYS and am wondering if I can place this into a MacPro1,1 (the first Desktop MacPro).
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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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About This Mac Shows 43 GB of Backups, Disk Inventory X Shows 0 GB, Need to delete Backups
Currently in About This Mac, I'm seeing 43.05 GB of 128.47 GB of Backups.
However, in Disk Inventory X, I do not see these backups:
I want to delete these Backups as I do not need them anymore, ...
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How does OSX assign disk numbers?
I have four drives inside my Mac Pro.
Bay 1: /dev/disk1s3
Bay 2: /dev/disk0s2
Bay 3: /dev/disk2s2 (also, my boot drive)
Bay 4: /dev/disk3s2 and /dev/disk3s3
How are the disk numbers assigned? If ...
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How to break away from LaCie Big Disk Extreme firmware, for its two disks to appear as two instead of one?
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How can I reconfigure a LaCie Big Disk Extreme so that Mountain Lion will see both of its disks?
Background
Once, years ago, I accidentally did something bad to a LaCie device. Where ...
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iBook G4 opening procedure (for hard disk replacement)
I am about to replace the hard disk of an iBook G4 (a 12" 1.33 GHz model) with a SSD. The guides I find online, such as this one, describe a rather long procedure where both the bottom and top covers ...
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What is the /data/db folder in OS X?
I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and cleaning up my almost full hard-drive using the free tool Disk Inventory X. I stumbled upon the /data/db folder which weighs more than 600Mb. Before deleting some of its ...
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External hard drive frequently ejects itself when using Aperture
I have a brand new external hard drive which frequently ejects itself on a regular basis (every ~20 minutes or so), seemingly only when I have Aperture open (my Aperture library is located on the ...
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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't unmount the disk during Mac OS X install
My MacBook started to get really slow recently. Now it can’t start up properly anymore. All I see is the Apple logo and then it shuts down. I've tried rebooting multiple times, but I've seen the same ...
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Mid 2009 MacBook won't recognize [any] hard drive
My MacBook had been acting fine. I applied the latest update to Mountain Lion and closed the lid. When I opened the lid, it wouldn't wake from sleep (dark screen with whirring fan for ~5mins). I held ...
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Is / always the path of the system drive?
I need to know which drive is the System drive.
Is it safe to assume that / is always the system drive ? Or in some situation (for example booting from a FW drive) / is not the drive were the system ...
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Can't access USB hard drive plugged in to Time Capsule
I have the most recent 2 TB Time Capsule to which I connected (via USB) a 1.5 TB Seagate hard drive.
I expect the hard drive to be visible under "Shared", but nothing appears, except the Time Capsule ...
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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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Move Large, Frequent files closer to center of HDD
Is there a native/third-party utility (or native trick) to move large, frequently-used files closer to the center of the disk?
I was under the impression that the OS tried to automatically optimize ...
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Dedicated SSD/HDD to install Windows on a MacBook
So I have a Late 2008 unibody MacBook. I recently bought a caddy to replace my optical drive with so I can fit a secondary drive in the laptop.
I have a 256 SSD in the main and a brand new 128 SSD to ...
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Windows Server 2012 (or 2008) on a Mac mini
I understand Windows Server 2008 (and presumably 2012) works with Boot Camp. But I am wondering if it will be able to access the second hard disk in the Mac mini server.
Can a Boot Camp Windows use ...
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Will FileVault reduce the power of my hybrid SSD+HDD?
I have a MacBook with a Momentus XT hybrid SSD+HDD drive. It have a 500GB HDD plus 4GB SSD which, as I could check, it uses as a cache for read operations. It uses some kind of black magic to ...
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Why is my hard drive still full after deleting files?
I'm new to Mac. I have deleted many files from my applications folder, downloads, music, etc. to make clean Mountain Lion installation.
After installing Mountain Lion I can still see in
About This ...
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Hard drive defect? Help me recover my music!
I've an old iPod Classic with 80 GB of Storage, suddenly it stopped showing any music. I can still access the files on it (with Windows Explorer). Copying all files is possible but it stops at a ...
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Macbook Pro early 2012 SSD retire block count
I've recently bought an OCZ Vertex3 480 GB SSD (VTX3-25SAT3-480G) for a drive upgrade.
This is what I did after I purchased the drive:
Backed up my system with Carbon copy cloner
Installed the SSD ...
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Where are notes stored in Mountain Lion
I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get ...
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JDiskReport is damaged, can't be opened
I have tried downloading and running JDiskReport 1.4 a few times now, and after unzipping it and clicking on the executable I get the message:
"JDiskReport" is damaged and can't be opened. You ...
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I replaced my Superdrive with a second hard drive, and now I've got spin-up/down issues
I've purchased a bracket to replace the superdrive in my 2009 Unibody MBP, the kind with the latch that pops open rather than the entirely screwed down bottom panel.
Now that I've put in my second ...
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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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Does Time Machine need a “clean drive”, or can I use an old hard disk
I want to use Time Machine on my Mountain Lion. I have 1TB external HDD I use for storing various stuff.
The thing is I selected the drive for Time Machine to work on but nowhere it is mentioned ...
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What does “DOE compliant” mean in Disk Utility?
When erasing a drive with Disk Utility, you have a couple options. An insecure wipe, a single pass of zeroes, a "DOE-compliant" 3 pass, and a DOD (Department of Defense) 7 pass.
DOE doesn't stand ...
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fsck and Disk Utility won't repair Volume: invalid b-tree node size
I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second ...
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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 ...
