Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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You may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2015 model. The Mac had Big Sur installed on the internal SSD. This internal SSD died and thanks to macOS Recovery over the internet (Option-Command-R), I managed to ...
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WD My Passport not showing up
I had a backup on my hard-drive which I wanted to delete (300GB), so I moved to the trash.
Deleting most files seemed to be okay, however, it then got to the applications folder and other system ...
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How can I resize these partitions?
I have two partitions on my 2015 MacBook Air, one running El Capitan 10.11.6 and one running Catalina 10.15.7.
How can I resize these partitions? There are no resize controls in the disk utility ...
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"DISK NOT EJECTED PROPERLY" every 60 seconds or so
I attached a 2T magnetic, spinning USB disk to my Mac mini today, and started getting:
DISK NOT EJECTED PROPERLY
Eject "Untitled" before disconnecting or turning it off.
But I'm not ...
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Absolutely no keyboard communication between Computer and board? [duplicate]
So I was given an Early 2009 iMac which was running Snow Leopard. I went and tried to install DOSDUDES Catalina Patcher OS on the computer and it failed and all of a sudden I've lost all communication ...
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Absolutely no keyboard communication between Computer and board?
So I was given an Early 2009 iMac which was running Snow Leopard. I went and tried to install DOSDUDES Catalina Patcher OS on the computer and it failed and all of a sudden I've lost all communication ...
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sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 not mounting for recovery [duplicate]
I edited my etc/sudoers file to try to disable the requirement for sudo password.
Now I can't run sudo commands in the terminal. I get the following error:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, ...
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Can I upgrade MacBook Pro mid-2012 with PCIe gen 4 using a SATA adapter?
My MacBook Pro's performance has gone down and sometimes files are unreadable and sometimes MacBook is unable to boot up, so I am thinking to upgrade my MacBook with a PCIe gen4 SSD and use an adapter ...
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Blinking question mark folder icon after Ubuntu USB boot
A few days ago, I booted into Ubuntu from a USB drive on my late 2011 13'' MacBook Pro. The computer has an SSD that was installed about 5 years ago to improve performance.
Yesterday, I turned my ...
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macbook pro (early 2015) hangs on startup; disk utility finds problems with partition map
As the title says, my MacBook pro (13" retina display, early 2015) suddenly started hanging halfway through startup (apple logo and progress bar), and there seems to be no way to access the data. ...
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SSD dismounts randomly and doesn't mount at startup
2TB external SSD that dismounts randomly and will not automatically mount when my M1 Mini starts up. For it to mount the cable must be unplugged and then plugged back in. It is directly connected to ...
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Granularity of tmutil's associatedisk function
I want to look at options for moving a home directory off a boot drive, and onto a different physical volume.
What I need to avoid, is time machine treating it as new data, and doing a full backup, ...
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Not able to partition disk
Why I am not able to partitin disk (button is grayed out)
It have 1 TB and I cant see full capacity.
I am also trying to restore it to its full capacity, but this command also done work.
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Assess and Address a failing hard drive - Is there a definitive guide, tool, or protocol?
I'm running a Macbook Pro 2012 with the original internal hard drive. When I run "first aid" on it using Disk Utility, it reports that the drive is okay.
However, a SMART Status reporting ...
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Disk Utility says I have free space but when I click partition, the pie chart shows no free space
In disk utility, it says I have 76GB of free space and I want to partition some. When I click partition though, the okie chart shows only one section saying ‘Macintosh HD, 121 GB’ and that I can’t ...
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Smart Folders Search Results have "Ghost" Files that won't go away
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Creating a -F search in a finder window on an external drive will show file results that do not exist. These files have been renamed, moved, and/or deleted, yet the file will remain in the ...
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How to improve Catalina/Big Sur and USB SSD transfer speed
Recently I bought SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD. It is advertised as delivering almost 2GB/s read and and write speeds. Of course, such speeds are only achievable with compatible hardware.
I have ...
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New SSD does not show in Disk Utility
I wanted to upgrade the internal SSD of my Mid 2013 MacBook Air. I bought a normal M2 SSD and an adapter.
The ssd is not shown by diskutil ls. The output of the command is shown in the screenshot.
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Disk is no longer encrypted?
I swap between two external drives for Time Machine backups. I swap every few weeks. I just swapped back to a disk that used to be encrypted but it isn't anymore. The backups are working but I no ...
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Strange: Disk space is not free after removing file
I have a strange problem and hope I can find a solution here.
I'm using a VPN to connect a linux server. When I downloaded ~2Gb binary file from the server to an extra data disk, I found the system ...
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Windows to Mac: Should my home folder act now as my entire D drive?
I am migrating from Windows to a new Mac, and I just noticed that after Mac OS Catalina, I can not create any folders under root directory (/).
Should all my data go to my user's home folder, as if it ...
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Can I disable auto-mounting of *all* external USB-connected storage media? [duplicate]
I’ve got an external USB storage device (hard drive) which I’m using for backups. Unfortunately manually deleting some old backups seems to have destroyed the hard drive, and now whenever I connect ...
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iCloud files unrecoverable after transfer to external disk?
I had a 90GB directory on iCloud in my Documents folder, of which maybe 85GB was offloaded to cloud with only 5GB on disk. I transferred the whole directory to my 4TB external drive, and it seemed to ...
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All my data is located on Macintosh HD while Macintosh HD - Data is empty
I have recently noticed that on my 2019 MacBook Pro running Big Sur (11.4) all files including applications, user data, desktop folder, etc. are located on Macintosh HD. Everything works fine, but ...
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Missing storage on macOS Big Sur
I have a 2017 Mac with 250 GB of storage. Recently, I noticed it was all but full.
I scanned the main drive with Grand Perspective and became very confused.
There are 4 folders:
Apps with 73 GB
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Q: Can I access the drive on a Power Macintosh 7200/75 as an external drive?
I was recently given an older Power Macintosh 7200/75 that was owned by a family member, with the task of trying to access it to see what is on the hard drive. It's just the base machine, no keyboard,...
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I am looking for assistance with achieving remote management bypass on a MacBook Pro 2020 13 inch intel
I have referred to many threads on the internet. Essentially it comes down to this. I have purchased a MacBook Pro through Offer up. I went to activate it and it has a remote management lock on it. I ...
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Can the hard drive on MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) be replaced to bigger size
I currently have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3).
The current internal drive is 128 GB SSD, but I need a bigger internal drive. I have contacted a ...
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Macbook USB Hub - Device ejected not properly error
I have been using a MacBook Pro 2019 with a Fitfort USB-C-Hub-Multiport-Adapter 7 in 1 (technical data below) for the last 2 years. I really like this USB Hub for its multiple ports as I use external ...
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External Hard Drive is only recognized as a USB-device
When I plug in my WD Elements Hard Drive, it is only recognized as a USB3.0 connection (see image). I don't see any drive showing up in the Disk Utility, but I do see the USB showing up. Could this be ...
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Killed my old MacBook Pro. Any recommendations to help extend the life of my M1 Macook Air internal SSD?
I recently killed my old (2012) MacBook Pro's hard drive by doing something I didn't realize was a problem. I've now purchased a nice little M1 MacBook Air to replace the old workhorse MBP, and it's ...
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Unable to mount External HD - Mac OS Extended
UPDATE: I am able to recover quite a bit with Disk Drill it seems. I'm hoping this proves fruitful. Thanks to those who offered insight!
For context, I've been asked to provide footage for a client ...
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Can't delete files and folder from external driver
A completely Mac Newbie here. I just bought iMac 2021. I have Samsung SSD 1TB. And I can't delete Files or Folders, there is no option to delete.
I checked Get Info, it shows that I have Read and ...
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Mac HD Clear Photos Storage
I store my Mac Photos library on an external drive. The Storage Manager displays the Mac hard drive as using large amount of data for photos. I need to clear space on my HD for an upgrade. Running ...
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How to improve badblocks read/write performance in macOS
I'm running a 2016 MacBook Pro with Big Sur and testing a USB 3.0 hard drive with badblocks. A simple test with 1GB pattern takes ~1 min to write (16MB/s). When testing the same drive with a Finder ...
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Trying to disable “ignore ownership” option on NTFS partition, not much going right
Cloned a Boot Camp partition from my old Mac with dd (both thus being NTFS), but, unlike the original, it does not show in the boot menu. Research suggests this is because ownership is disabled.
Thus ...
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SSD's "Used" space growing after each Erase / Format & ejecting!
I bought a brand new Samsung T7 SSD, and I used macOS's Disk Utility to format (erase) it in APFS(Encrypted), scheme: GUID Partition Map.
Before erasing (brand new), "Used" space was 108,5 ...
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How do I upload files to an external hard drive using terminal? [duplicate]
I'm currently trying to upload some files off of my device onto an external hard drive using Terminal, and I've run into some issues.
Using these steps: https://gist.github.com/kwcto/...
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What is necessary to boot Linux on a Mac?
I've seen some various guides online about different ways to boot Ubuntu from an SD card or a USB stick. They have some variation with regards to making it always boot from the external memory or ...
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Bootcamp - Windows 10 - No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
I have got a problem with booting into Windows 10 after changing Superdrive to SSD - "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key".
It works if i leave only old hard drive, ...
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Cannot see drive when trying to factory reset
I'm currently trying to factory reset my 2015 macbook pro, but when I start it up, click cmd+r and try to erase it from disk utility, it doesn't show up. I also tried doing a diskutil list command, ...
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Big Sur and Seagate 2TB Expansion Drive Slow
I've been using these 2TB Seagate Expansion Drives for a while with Logic Pro, but today it the HD usage in Logic Pro keeps maxing out:
The specific model of the one I just purchased is the ...
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In a copy operation why does macOS Big Sur send a lot of packets to the hard drive it is copying from?
Copying a large file from an external hard drive to a Mac, shows a lot of packets first going to the hard drive.
Then there is a period of no disk activity.
Then what I expected happens, packets ...
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Uninitialized external drive cannot be erased
I have a StoreJet Transcend hard drive. It suddenly stopped working. When I plugged it in my mac shows that it's not readable. I tried restarting my Mac.
Then when it didn't work, I clicked ...
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Secure erased drive - always one file can be found
I've been going through some old HD drives, secure erasing before sending to recycle. I periodically run Disk Drill over one of them, just to make sure I'm doing the job right.
No matter whether I do ...
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Where is the Application Support folder if your App is on a external hard drive?
I have downloaded Logic Pro 10.6.3, but since it is almost 2 GB I moved it to my 2TB external hard drive.
I need to access to Application Support to install plug-in's, but I cannot the support folder ...
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Using Big SUr 10.6.3 with external seagate 5tb HD
So im using the mentioned HD as my second travelling drive. Everythings been working fine, no drops of the device, no sudden disconnects in general until one night, after some work, off to sleep, ...
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External HDD listed in call to diskutil, but not in Disk Utility ot Finder
My question is similar to this one, except that my HDD does not appear in Disk Utility, nor Finder. The drive fell about a foot onto the floor. After that, I connected it, it mounted, and I started to ...
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"Macintosh HD - Data" and "Macintosh HD - Data - Data" but no "Macintosh HD"
I recently upgraded from High Sierra (10.13) to Big Sur (11.4). My Mac is functioning fine as far as I can tell; however, I noticed that I no longer have a "Macintosh HD" disk. Instead I ...
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Adding Free space to Container disk2
Is there a way to move (free space) and add it to Container disk2 in /dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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