A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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Dealing with a dying hard drive
I have a MacBook Pro with a dying hard drive. It was working poorly for the last month or so and the last 4 times I turned it on it booted correctly once, issued a boot sector not found twice and a ...
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Taking care of the hard drive in my MacBook?
Is it bad for my MacBook if I simply close the lid and pack it up? Will this impact the hard drive?
What about using it in a moving vehicle, like a car?
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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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Is it necessary to eject an external drive before sleeping?
I have a question similar to a previous one about ejecting before shutting down.
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before putting a Mac to sleep, whether it be via an ...
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Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive?
I am running an SSD boot drive and a HDD drive on my Macbook Pro 5,5 and I obviously cannot have Time Machine filling up my SSD. I was wondering if there was anyway to have time machine create local ...
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Macbook Pro - Not picking up Hard Drive
I had a problem when I turned on my Macbook Pro, I would just get a flashing "?" when I booted up.
I decided to grab a recovery from another mac I have, I put this onto a memory stick and my laptop ...
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Mac start up - Flashing Folder
Basically, tonight my mac crashed so I re-started and got a flashing folder.
I have searched around online for the commands that I need to press when I first hear the chime to get into the disk ...
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Installing hybrid drive in mid-2010 17-inch MacBook Pro
I'm looking to expand my internal 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD that came with my 17" MacBook Pro (mid-2010) running OS X Lion.
I'm interested to hear from other MacBook Pro owners who've upgraded their HDD ...
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Synchronize USB hard drive between Mac and PC
I have a large (750GB) FAT32 formatted USB hard drive and two computers - a MacBook and a PC - and I want to keep synched and duplicate versions of my work folders (images, word documents, videos etc) ...
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Why does RAID 1 “Mirroring not provide performance improvements”?
I have always used Software RAIDs, either Apple-provided, or via SoftRAID, etc. I am about to re-zhuzh my arrays and decided to do a little research beforehand… and On Apple's site, there is a ...
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Renaming “A's MacBook” to “C's MacBook”
I see that my Mac is called "A's MacBook" on the network.
How do I rename it (i.e., change the hostname) to "C's MacBook"?
That's the question. Here are the details:
Having read various suggestions ...
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sym linking iTunes Media -> Music to external thumb drive
I'm out of space on my Macbook Air and thinking about ways of removing things. One idea is to put all my music (~100GB) on a big thumb drive (y, and back it up). I pretty much always have my keychain ...
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If I'm using Gmail, can I clean out the space that “Mail Messages” are taking up on my hard drive?
In looking to make some room on my MacBook Pro's Hard drive, I ran the excellent Disk Inventory X
As I expected, movies, my Aperture Archive and other media-intensive files took up a ton of my space. ...
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Do persistently incorrect disk permissions indicate a disk should be replaced?
Something is wrong with my Mac, as indicated (and still unresolved) in the question:
What is the Sixth Step of MacBook Repair?
One possibility is that the main disk is faulty.
Disk Utility reports ...
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Do new Macbook Pros come with SATA 3.0Gbps or 6.0Gbps
I'm thinking of buying a SSD or hybrid drive for my new Macbook Pro. Is the SATA connection in new Macbook Pros SATA 3.0Gbps or 6.0Gbps?
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What do Verify Disk and Repair Disk actually do in Disk Utility?
I've recently been suspecting problems with my hard disk and saw another answer here on AskDifferent recommending Drive Genius or Disk Warrior.
I thought I'd start thought by using the built in Disk ...
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Mac and Windows dual boot problem
I have a software problem with my Mac laptop:
I had made a division in the hard drive some time ago and installed Windows in the other partition using Bootcamp software.
But now I think that the ...
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“Other” Storage space in Sys Info [duplicate]
I have MBP with Lion. In my Sys Info it says 170.12GB of space is being used by "Other". How do I determine what this Other space is and how to clean it up if possible?
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How to make my iMac recognize my USB external hard drive?
I just bought a new Seagate hard drive for Time Machine backups. I plugged it into my iMac and the hard drive never showed up in Finder. The drive does not appear in Disk Utility and the command ...
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Early 2011 MBP Hard Drive Noise - What IS normal?
I bought an early 2011 (the current model at the time of writing) 15 inch, 2.2GHz MacBook Pro.
I had a previous generation model, pre unibody model which I loved and performed like a star.
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Performance hit of installing a new hard drive in a MacBook Pro
I have a MacBook Pro 5,3 with a 7200 rpm 500 GB hard drive. I am running out of space and I have been considering upgrading with Western Digital's 1 TB laptop hard drive. I am just curious if I am ...
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Disk Utility: Incorrect number of file hard links
I'm running Mountain Lion on my Mid 2009 MBP. Recently(for last few months) it's acting really slow. Simplest actions are taking forever to perform. So I verified disk using the Disk Utility and it ...
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Diskutil can't find Core Storage Volumes
My OSX Mountain Lion will no longer atart up. After the logon screen it spins forever (the Apple logon is replaced by an error sign).
When I run in single user mode I get a "still waiting for root ...
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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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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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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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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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'09 mac mini hardware upgrade advice
Hello all I have an early '09 Mac mini 3,1 (Intel Core 2 duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD) which I need to upgrade soon as it is slowly dying (i.e., runnning an IDE like netbeans while having chrome open ...
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Can I plug my Iomega hard drive into my new BT Home Hub and access the tunes stored in it from my MacBook Pro wirelessly?
We have just acquired a BT home Hub router which has a USB socket. I have my music stored in an Iomega hard drive and normally plug this into the MacBook, which is a bit clumsy. ( I have told iTunes ...
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Hard disk performance drastically declined after OS X Lion upgrade
After upgrading to Lion (10.7.1) a while ago I'm currently faced with a very poor performance of my system. It's a 2.2 GHz Core2Duo with 4 GB RAM and a 500GB HD.
E.g. the JBoss6 AS needs about 5 ...
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3 Terabyte hard drives in Mac Pro Mid 2010?
I got the Mid 2010 Single CPU Mac Pro and want to add a 3 TB hard drive, specifically the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX.
Does anyone know if that drive will work? Not looking to boot from it, ...
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How can I tell if my iMac's hard drive is dying?
A couple of days ago, my three-year-old iMac locked up. When I rebooted it, it only displayed a folder icon with a flashing question mark. After a couple more reboot attempts, it booted. I ran Disk ...
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Time Machine multiple Disks Backup over Network
I have a Mac OSX Server 10.6 with a Harddisk attached to it which has been configured as Time Machine destination. Over the Workgroup manager I have assigned the TM destination on Computergrouplevel. ...
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Prevent disk reordering on boot
I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before ...
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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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How can I restore my system, using Snow Leopard, after hard-drive replacement?
I had a nearly full 500GB drive in my MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard. As the near-full capacity was becoming problematic, I bought two 1TB drives, went home, ran Time Machine on one of them, and ...
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Unable to create a DIY Fusion Drive using a 3 TB hard drive
I'm trying to make a Fusion Drive with a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a 3 TB 3.5" HDD (connected via SATA to my late 2012 Mac mini). I'm able to create the Fusion Drive, but when I start to install ...
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How can I find and edit my external hard-drive's .fseventsd folder?
While changing my 'file directory' preferences on Vuze, I accidentally created a folder in the .fseventsd-folder on my Seagate external hard-drive.
I can't even find the .fseventsd-folder using ...
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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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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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Do SSDs need to be defragmented?
I'm not sure if solid state drives need defragmentation. Can anyone tell me if this requirement goes away with the new technology?
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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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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
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What can I do to check the integrity of the hard drive and all its files, to see if they are corrupt or not?
Recently there has been some files disappearing (in iTunes), and I'm not so sure of the extent of this problem yet. Perhaps it may have been an iTunes upgrade bug, but I'm not so sure.
What can I do ...
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New hard drive not recognized
I swapped the original 80 GB hard drive for a new 640 GB Samsung HM64JI hard drive.
It is not recognized after booting from the 10.5 Installation DVD on Macbook 2.1 with recent EFI updates installed.
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Can a Time Machine drive have several partitions, or does Time Machine need the whole HDD to itself?
Is it possible to partition and external drive an use only one of the partitions for a Time Machine backup? Or does Time Machine need its dedicated hard drive? (I've never used Time Machine before.)
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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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Check a Mac partition's installed OS
I'm managing a lot of Macs and each machines has several partitions with different OS versions.
I would like to create a script that I could run to do an inventory of all partitions of all machines ...
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Should I get a SATA 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s hard drive for my MBP?
If I am planning to upgrade my Macbook Pro 13" (Late 2011) with a 7200RPM Hard drive, should I get a SATA 3Gb/s or SATA 6Gb/s drive?
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Macbook: Flashing Folder with Question Mark At Startup
So, I've been hearing a clicking sound coming from my macbook for about a week now. The last few days the system has just been locking itself up when I try to type anything.
Now, at startup I see ...
