A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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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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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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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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Hard drive unmounted and missing then back?
I have a 15" 2011 MBP with the OWC data doubler (a generic version). In my primary drive position (the spot where the factory HDD was) I have an OCZ-VERTEX 3. In the data doubler (the spot where the ...
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SSD adapter for optical drive
I'm going to add a SSD drive to my macbook pro.
I'm wondering if the optical drive adapter can have any influence on the disk speed, taking it down from a SATA III to a SATA II or I.
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Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini wont boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin ...
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How do I add icons to my menu bar?
I would like to know how I could add a USB eject button or battery power indicator to my menu bar on Mac OS X. I remember going into my Macintosh hard drive but I can't remember which folder to find ...
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How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal.
I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be ...
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SSD and Superdrive on Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller
Right now I have a Hitachi 320GB 5400rpm and a MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868 superdrive connected to the Nvidia MCP79 SATA controller in my MacBook Pro 5,3. The link speed of the hard disk drive is negotiated ...
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Time Machine External Drive
What factors are important when selecting an external hard drive for time machine backups?
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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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How can I boot to Windows on my Mac?
I have a MacBook Pro that I installed Windows 8 on via Boot Camp. I've managed to boot to it, before, but since then I've made two new partitions on the disk, and I'm afraid it's messed things up ...
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Time Machine - Is it backing up system files, preferences, etc?
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My iMac is one which falls under a hard disk replacement program due to a possibly faulty disk made by Seagate in 2010. Because of that I will be soon sending it off to Apple for the disk to ...
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How to load windows 7 directly (without Boot camp) in a Mac Mini with intel processor whose Hard disk crashed and so is replaced?
The hard disk of my Mac mini with 2 GHz intel processor and 4 GB RAM crashed and so I have replaced the Hard disk. How to load Windows 7 without loading Boot camp? Windows 7 original DVD is not able ...
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Why do external hard drives stop working under very specific conditions?
I have a mid 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running Lion.
I have seen this behavior across 3 different external hardrives, with varying manufacturers (2x Seagate, 1 Western Digital), different file system ...
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Is my MacBook Pro hard drive dying?
I have an early 2011 13" MBP, i7, 8GB crucial RAM, 500 GB Seagate ST9500325ASG.
I've had it for about 4 months. Twice, including last night, the beach ball appears, concurrent with a sound that can ...
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How can I automatically have my Trash emptied when disk space gets below a certain point?
Sometimes my hard drive gets low on space, and various things don't work properly until I empty the Trash and free up some space. I know there are applications that empty the Trash after a set ...
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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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Large difference in reported free disk space
I have a strange discrepancy in the amount of free disk space that's being reported.
The finder says:
My iStat Menus says:
Which is the same as df -h reports:
remco@Prosperpine ~ $ df -h
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Mac OS X with swap turned off uses 6 GB of space in a few hours of heavy use
I have few GBs (5,38 GB at the moment) of free space on my hard disk (MacBook Pro 2010, 10.7.5). Few hours after I turn on/reboot my computer, the free space slowly goes down to zero and the system ...
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Time Machine deleting backups from several months ago (but not the oldest)?
During its "Cleanup" phase, Time Machine has recently been deleting backups from several months ago—even though these aren't the oldest backups, and my backup drive isn't full.
My backups go back to ...
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Are there any wireless hard drives work well with Lion or newer Macs?
Are there any wireless hard drives to use with a mac?
I need to copy paste files from and to this hard drive, when the disk on my mac is full. Do I need to look for a specific Apple drive or will any ...
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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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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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Western Digital external hard drive is constantly ejected
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups, and recently my iMac has started to randomly eject the hard drive, preventing backups. It tends to happen while ...
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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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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 ...
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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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How to re-encrypt a decrypted partition that says “The Core Storage-targetvolume is already encrypted”?
I encrypted a Lion partition called "Storage" and it worked perfectly. I needed to decrypt it momentarily because I had some issues, but now I want to encrypt the same volume again and it says "The ...
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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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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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prevent second hard-drive from spinning up after standby
I have a MacBook Pro with two harddrives, an SSD in the main slot and a larger, normal drive in place of the superdrive.
Because of power consumption and noise I managed to get my Mac to not ...
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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]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
