A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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Mountain Lion Installer detects hard drive damage
I downloaded and ran the Mountain Lion Installer today for my mid-2007 iMac. After rebooting and preparing to install, I receive an error message that the hard disk was damaged and the installer could ...
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How can I mount disks via cron in Mountain Lion?
Is there a way to mount disks in Mountain Lion that works with cron?
The following command works fine from the Terminal:
/usr/sbin/diskutil mount disk1s6
But when executed via my crontab, it ...
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Exact clone of HD
I managed to broke something on my iMac's internal HD. I have now done a successful restore using DiskDrill, but just in case I want to make an exact copy of the internal HD. Not just some partition, ...
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“Invalid key length” - corrupt partition after power outage?
I recently lost power overnight with my computer up and running, external hard drives plugged in, and in the morning my login screen had the "Device Removal" error as if I unplugged the disk without ...
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How to recover data from unreadable hard drive?
I have an 80GB Fujitsu 2.5" hard drive that died about a day ago and had nothing backed up. Is it possible to retrieve data off of it somehow.
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disk copy software, imperfect disk
I didn't find this question, but if it is here let me know.
I have a problem disk. I want to copy as much as possible from it before I scrap it. But there are many thousands of files, so manually ...
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How to partition an SSD that fails with error 69888 - couldn't unmount disk?
I erased the SSD drive in my MacBook and was reinstalling Lion when it failed about 75% through the install. Now in Disk Utility, sometimes I see the SSD drive and sometimes I boot and it's not there ...
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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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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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How to recover deleted files from OS 10.5.8?
I'm not very experienced with Macs, so please pardon my mistakes. I'm assisting a coworker with a client of ours who recently let go of one of their employees, and in the resulting meeting the person ...
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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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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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difference between disk size in console vs disk utility
Console results df -h
disk utility results
What explains the large difference here in capacity as well as used memory? And which is more reliable.
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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 fix “512 bytes per sector” to “4096 bytes per sector” for an “Advanced Format” 4K sector USB hard drive?
Mac OS X 10.7.4 has a Sharkoon Quickdeck Pro USB enclosure attached. That USB enclosure contains a 4TB Advanced Format hard drive which has 4096 bytes (4K) sector size. The drive is GPT/GUID ...
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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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Do 2.5" SATA HDDs in an external enclosure need extra power over USB with Windows?
MacBook Pro 2008 motherboard failed. Upon sending it to an Apple authorized repair center, they confirmed this. They gave me the laptop back so I could open 'er up and get the hard disk out, which I ...
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Is there anything like NVELO Dataplex (hybrid SSD/HDD software) for OS X?
I'm interested in upgrading my old MacBook to using an SSD and moving the data drive to where the DVD drive is using an optibay.
Often SSDs come with a licence for NVELO Dataplex software (which is ...
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Why is exFAT so slow on Mac?
I tried exFAT in order to use my external hdd on both mac and windows but I found it's so much slower than HFS+. The speed is noticeably different when I tried to fast forward movies (over 4gb).
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New Larger Hard Drive on MacBook Pro
I have a 500 GB hard drive, and I need more space - I want to go up to 1TB of space.
Is it possible to swap out hard drives and carry all my installed software, documents, images, settings, etc. ...
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Why is Outlook 2011 constantly writing to my hard disk?
I recently installed a hard disk write monitoring program (MenuMeters), and for some reason it was reporting that my drive is constantly being written to. By closing programs one at a time, I've ...
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Which type of storage between HDD and SSD should I use in MacBook Pro for app development job?
I'm deciding to buy my first MacBook Pro for developing iOS application. I never use any Apple desktop or laptop before, and also never develop any application. I think if I want faster result when I ...
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Unable to unmount drive!
Somehow my harddrive seems to fail, I am not able to startup anymore. When I started in verbose mode, I noticed that the harddrive return I/O Errors and the B-Node-Tree seems to be corrupted.
I was ...
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Is “The disk copy of 'filename.psd' was changed since…” dialog a sign of harddrive issues?
I saw this message and I'm not sure if it is a sign of harddrive issues (corruption, etc) or anything I should be concerned about. It popped up in Photoshop when saving. Might also be worth noting ...
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Any partition software just to partition unused space?
Currently I have one portable external hard drive which I use for Windows. It's 1TB and over 300GB is used space. I would like to partition it so I can access the unused space from my Mac. Can you all ...
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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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Can I manually put an external hard disk to sleep?
Is it possible to manually put an external hard disk to sleep? Right now, I've already got "Put the hard disks to sleep when possible" checkmarked in the Energy Saver preference pane, and so they ...
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Best file system for an external hard drive sharing between OS X and Windows
I would like to buy an external hard drive that I'll use on Mac OS X and on Windows, but I don't know the best file system for it (reading and writing on the both system).
I know I can used FAT32 ...
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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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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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Clone the Windows partition with Carbon Copy Cloner?
I have bought a new Hard Drive and I want to switch from my old disk to my new one. Time machine will do the job for my Mac partition, but not the Windows partition I guess. So I'm looking for way to ...
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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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Sandboxing prl_disp_service to prevent disk waking
So there is prl_disp_service, a Parallels 7 background service that periodically wakes the internal hard drive in my Macbook Pro although it`s unmounted most of the time since I boot from an SSD I ...
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Macbook Pro HD/SSD Dock mount drives as read/write
Ok, so just bought myself a dock so I can wipe some drives and use others as storage. Most of these drives originated from windows Machines and thus are formatted NTFS and not FAT/FAT32
Currently I ...
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Moving Drives Between Macs
I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro after today's refresh, and I am wondering if OS X handles simply pulling a drive out of one MacBook Pro and putting it in another. I know that in the Windows ...
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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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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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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 can I tell whether a drive is asleep?
Is there an application or command-line utility for Mac OS X to query a hard-disk to see if it is 'asleep' or 'awake' right now? (i.e. as controlled by Energy Saver / pmset disk sleeping preferences). ...
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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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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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Does a Macbook Pro have 1 or 2 Hard Disk Controllers?
If SATA channel 1 (used by the hard drive) is damaged, could it be that SATA channel 2 (used by the SuperDrive) is fine?
I would like to know if I can use a hard drive on the SuperDrive channel even ...
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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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Can I format new MacBook hard drive from OSX DVD?
I have to install a fresh new drive into my MacBook pro 2009.
I haven't formatted yet, nor do I have a USB dock to do so from my current osx installation.
If I install the new drive and boot from ...
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MacBook Pro disk failure
Just a few months ago, I bought the latest 2011 MacBook Pro. Now, a few months later, I have a problem. It seems like my notebook is rejecting my hard drive (which is an SSD).
How it all began: ...
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Latest Model 13" MacBook Pro i7 - Disk slow beyond belief
It seems that all disk operations are 50x slower. Reboot time = 15 minutes. Dekstop freezes every time disk accessed.
Is there anything I can do? The machine is virtually unusable. This has been ...
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Tracking down frequent (every 20 seconds) SCSI hard disk drive access in 10.7
In a Lion Server (10.7.3 and 10.7.4 tried) system with multiple drives attached to an HPT SATA controller, there is some process that keeps accessing the hard disk drives exactly every 20 seconds. As ...
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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 ...
