A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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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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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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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 to export files from hard drive in Snow Leopard CD?
I have a macbook 5,1 that won't startup. I'm going to reinstall Snow Leopard with the CD, but is there a way to export some of the files that are in it? I can't seem to gain access to them through the ...
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Why does my 3TB Seagate HD keep formatting as a Logical Volume Group
This is really annoying. I have a brand new Seagate 3TB 7200 RPM hard drive that I am trying to format/partition in Disk Utility. Every time I change any settings or erase the drive, it changes it to ...
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Macintosh HD missing after failed catalog btree rebuilding
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in ...
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MacBook Pro Mid-2009 13 inch does not recognize replaced hard drive
As the title states, I recently got a used Hard Drive from another MacBook Pro and installed it into my MacBook. The problem, is the laptop will not recognize it at all. The old hard drive just goes ...
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Fusion Drive not moving data back to SSD - anyone encounter this?
I'm about to buy a Mac Mini and have got the DIY Fusion Drive parts handy. I'm actually a bit on the fence about the choice of manual SSD+HDD separation with the aid of symlinks and proper Fusion ...
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Fusion Drive Setup: Possible to force the HDD to spin down as long as your reading from/writing to the SSD?
I'm considering to replace my optical drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. When using it as separate Volume, the advantage is that you can spin down the HDD, thus reduce noise and first and foremost, ...
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Restoring Win7 image to new bigger partition in Mac OS Mountain Lion
I had 80% of my HDD for Mac and 20% for win7... I needed more space on Win7 so I did the following:
Created disk image of Windows partition, using Mac's Disk Utility
Used Boot Camp Assistant to ...
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What steps can I take to recover data from a FileVault 2 encrypted boot volume that won't boot and is stuck in “converting” status?
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8 on a 500GB (upgraded from original) 1-2 year old hard drive. The drive was encrypted with FileVault2, and the system was running fine a few months ago until ...
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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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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 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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“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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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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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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Find Time Capsule HD Specs
How can I find out the specs from my Time Capsule hard drive? It doesn't appear in Disk Utility (a mounted disk). More specifically, I'd like to know the manufacturer and model, much like the System ...
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Disk Utility Error Message - Missing EFI + MediaKit
Previously setup was with 2 partitions, one for normal use while the other had the Lion Install ESD on it, used when I installed some time ago. The other day my machine suddenly shutdown and when I ...
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Failing hard drive – Will it affect the integrity of my data?
I have a failing hard drive on my current MacBook Pro (it is having a symptom that I previously had on a failing hard drive on a MacBook – clicking drive noises).
I'm backing up my hard drive quite ...
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Can I enable AHCI mode of the SATA controller when booting to Windows on a MacBook with Nvidia chipset?
Is there a way to enable AHCI mode under Windows on a Macbook5,2 (white) on N-Force 730i chipset?
If you want to just say 'no', please put it in the comments instead. Thanks.
Advanced Host Controller ...
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Lion doesn't mount encrypted disks anymore
I have several encrypted disks and all of a sudden Lion isn't mounting these disks anymore (it doesn't even asks for a password when I plug the disks). I have tested the disks on another Mac and they ...
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MacBook Pro: Strange crashes
I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part, but I've been having a few issues which I find very worrisome. I'm a computer science student, but my ...
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Restore 200mb EFI Partition/Write Support for WIN7 HFS+
So I posted earlier about recovoring an HFS+ partition on Windows.
I used Testdisk with awesome success.
Now I've run into another issue. The biggest issue is that I need to read AND write to my ...
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How to verify when disk drive detection is done (diskutil will list all drives) during boot process?
In a system where SATA disks are connected to a third party (Highpoint) controller, the wish is to create a bash shell script that will run every system boot.
The shell script will test whether each ...
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Detecting a drive (dead or alive) loaded in optical bay
I loaded a SSD into the optical bay of my 2011 MBP today, and initially it was picked up just fine - I used disk utility to format it to extended journalled, and set about moving files onto it with ...
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How can I browse the hard disk attached to my Airport Extreme from my iPhone?
I have a gen 5 AEBS which has a total of 3 HFS+ partitions across 2 USB hard drives (USB hub in the middle).
On my Macbook Pro Retina, I can see all 3 HFS+ partition in the Finder. Finder shows the ...
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How to prevent “Incorrect block count for file” file system errors from occurring?
On our 10.7 Lion installation, 3 out of 9 drives are repeatedly suffering from
Incorrect block count for file
errors when running a diskutil repairVolume command.
The drives are having ...
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How to select which disks are allowed to sleep?
There is an option "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in Mac OS X's preferences:
Is it possible to configure which disks Mac OS X can put into a sleepy state? For example, I want to ...
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Eject Disk Image at logout with AppleScipt?
I would like to know how to use AppleScript to write a script that automatically ejects a disk image whenever the user logs out of their account.
This script would be the complementary inverse to a ...
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Why does the application in focus hang for several seconds when a drive spins up?
This has happened to me for as long as I have used Macs, I think.
Occasionally, Mac OS X remembers a long-forgotten disk, sometimes external, sometimes internal, and spins it up for some reason. And ...
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Should the Sudden Motion Sensor be disabled with a hybrid hard drive?
I've read that it's ok to leave the SMS on with non-stock hard drives, but I've also seen that it can crash an SSD.
I have a Momentus XT with 4GB of solid state memory and 500GB of spinning platters.
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Location of per-user sharepoint contents on a harddrive associated with an Airport Extreme?
I have an external hard drive connected via USB to an Airport Extreme. I have "sharing" enabled and have created two accounts on the Airport for the drive. The drive has 4 partitions on it (that I ...
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I am sharing an external drive with two partitions through my Time Capsule. I am sharing them over WAN but can only see one partition?
I recently purchased the 1TB LaCie Rugged external drive. I created a 120GB HSF+ partition titled "HSF" and a 790GB MS-DOS partition titled "Drive".
I am currently sharing the disk over WAN but I ...
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Disk Encryption on Mac PRO OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) running Apple RAID Drives
I have a Mac Pro (mid 2010) running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) with Apple Raid 1T drives and I am running VMware Fusion with Windows 7. FileVault will not install the disk encryption and PGP will ...
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How to List Alternate Super-Blocks in Terminal
What is the the correct syntax / command within Mac Terminal to list the alternate Superblocks?
This is definitely one of the errors I get when applying fsck within Terminal.
newfs and mkesfs are ...
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Install Linux Mint on a dual-drive MacBook Pro with Windows and OS X
I have a Macbook Pro 13 mid-2012. It was shipped with a 500GB HDD, to which I added an additional SSD drive (128GB).
After installing my SSD in a caddy, thus replacing the optical drive, I installed a ...
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Backup and Removal of photos from iPhoto Library
I have a large number of photos within iPhoto 11 and I want to backup and reduce the size of my local iPhoto library to free up disk space on my laptop.
One scenario I've tried is:
Show iPhoto ...
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How to avoid diskutil from running on next boot?
OSX keeps trying to run diskutil to check my hard drive whenever I boot the system. Problem is it hangs up and reboots during the checking.
The system was running fine before rebooting. I suspect it ...
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How to check if hard drive is failing on late 2009 iMac
I have a late 2009 27" iMac with a 2TB hard drive. Over time, very hard drive intensive operations (especially Aperture 3) have become extremely slow (loading a ~30mb RAW in Aperture takes about 30 ...
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Why do I get different disk space information
When trying to clear space on my HDD before switch to a smaller (120gb) SSD I saw no change in the Info-window and quick view window. Realizing it had to be wrong I downloaded Disk inventory X that ...
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Macbook Pro Retina not recognizing USB3 drive at boot
My Macbook Pro Retina is not recognizing USB3 drives during boot when trying to access them with option or command+r held. Plugging the same drives into a USB2 hub or cable allows them to be visible ...
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Considering Hybrid HD for 2011MBP
I am interested in hearing about upgrading MBP hard drive to Hybrid drive. My MBP is early 2011 vintage with 320GB hd. Considering Seagate Momentus XT 750 serial ATA ssd Hybrid. Would appreciate ...
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Does Mac has Something like SuperCache?
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/supercache.php
It basically cache all read write. It also delay writes up to 5 seconds.
Since I am using it my computer becomes MUCH faster. It's as if I am using ...
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Replace 2nd Drive with Home Directories
I have a Mac Pro with an SSD boot drive which also houses /Applications. My home folder and data files are on software striped partition (just via Mac OS X - no hardware raid.) It's called Stripe. ...
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Time-Machin back-up through IP
Is it possible to use "Time-Machine" with an external hard-drive through an IP?
I have an external HD connected to a Raspberry Pi and I have installed SSH. What I am hoping to achieve is this:
I ...
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External Harddrive is showing in System Information but not Disk Utility
My harddrive crashed last night and since then I have not been able to access it on my Macbook Pro. I've restarted both my computer and hardrive multiple times and I've experienced the same result. It ...
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Is there a difference between WD Hard Drive utilities for RAID or Disk Utilities?
I have a WD "My Book Thunderbolt Duo" 6TB.
I have the option to format the disk using the WD utilities or to do something custom with Disk Manager.
Is there any difference in functionality between ...
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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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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 ...
