Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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How do I set password and AES 256 for external HDD?
I want to set a password and AES(128/256) encryption for my external HDD so one has to enter a password to gain access.
How can I do this?
I’m asking because I don’t see such an option in Disk Utility ...
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How to encrypt the whole external HDD with AES 256? [duplicate]
Mac OS Mojave.
When I encrypt the whole external HDD, I click Erase > Format + Scheme, I can only see these options
But I don't see such options as if I was encrypting only some files on an ...
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How to partition a hard drive in MacOS?
I am trying to partition a new external drive with 4 TB capacity with MacOS 12.5.1 & Disk Utility to a Windows-compatible format (MSDOS etc.). But no matter how to "erase" the disk, I am ...
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How to transfer backups.backupdb from one external HDD to another?
I have two macOS Mojave macs that back up to a drive. Now, when I’m trying to just grab “backups.backupdb” from one HDD to another,I have this error : copying is almost over and the size of the folder ...
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2 hard drives on MacBook 12 inch
I have a MacBook 12 inch with 1 USB-C port.
My MacBook got too small for my Photo's library, so I put that on an external SSD.
Now I want to include that SSD into the TimeMachine backup. The only way ...
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Spin down external USB hard drive before removing
On a Macbook Pro M1 with MacOS Monterey 12.5.1, I have an external 2.5" USB hard drive that I use regularly. When done using it, naturally I eject the volume by dragging it to Trash. This ...
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Error code -36 when copying files to external hard drive
Each time I attempt to copy files to a particular HDD, I get the following message:
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in
“filename.extension” can’t be read or written.
(Error ...
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Unable to Wipe and reformat an SSD Drive - wiping volume failed
I've run through a range of solutions offered on the forum
The disk came from a Windows 10 machine and I wanted to wipe and install another OS but have been struggling.
I gave up on the actual PC as I ...
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Remove access/ permissions to internal HDD
Is there any way to remove my permissions to the internal HDD of an iMac? I'm booted from an external SSD and spotlight shows default apps twice and sometimes some apps start from the internal HDD.
To ...
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External hard drive suddenly unable to mount
In Disk Utility, where the name of my HDD's physical volume should appear, it now instead says "--" and is greyed out. Additionally, though the relevant "mount" button is clickable,...
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How to make my HP USB flash drive (uses APFS) writable?
I have this HP USB 32 GB glash drive. When I insert this drive into my Mac via an adapter, I can't copy any files into this.
This is the info from 'Disk Utility':
This is the 'Get info' popup:
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Is it safer to have an encrypted disk image, inside an encrypted hard drive?
I'm trying to copy 4TB of my data from one hard drive to another.
Both of them have full-disk encryption.
Within my first HD, I store all my files on an encrypted disk image (with the same password as ...
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Troubleshooting and error logs etc. for external harddrive mount and unmounting problems
More than one harddrive that I have tried connecting to my MacBook Pro A1990 running macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) have displayed this kind of behaviour:
After being mounted for a while, the partitions ...
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How to merge inaccessible free space into main partition on Mac
I recently installed linux on my Macbook Pro by partitioning my harddrive using Disk Utility. I've since decided to erase Linux and just go back to an unpartitioned Mac installation.
However, I ...
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Why is a macbook MSDOS formatted disk not showing up in windows?
I followed this apple documentation to format an external USB harddrive for windows.
I used Disk Utility and erased it to be MS-DOS (FAT) with Master Boot Record.
I then put it into my windows 10 pc ...
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256 GB SSD slower then 512 GB SSD. Why?
According to tech-journalists is the 256 GB SSD in the new Mac Book Air slower then the 512 GB SSD:
Article
"While the M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air have two NAND chips of 128GB each in its ...
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Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size
I want to know how can I claim my free space to the container disk0s2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme ...
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retrieve files from bricked M1max MacBook pro
So, on my 2022 m1 max Macbook pro I was having an issue viewing one of my websites after an IP change on my server. I was advised to delete my DNS cache through terminal, I did so, then I then did a ...
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External hard drive won't eject because of QuickLook
I have an external hard drive that is APFS encrypted, but I also tested this with an APFS drive that is not encrypted.
Simply put, I mount my hard drive, view some files via quicklooking (press space ...
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Is my Mac 256 GB or 512 GB according to diskutil and “About this Mac” images posted below?
I bought a Mac recently and I am very new to Mac. The seller says its 512 GB but from the screenshots below I don't know if its 512 GB or 256 GB please kindly let me know.
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Time Machine external HDD backup drive won't mount, freezes system UI
I have a Western Digital Passport 2TB external HDD that I use for Time Machine backups. I formatted it using APFS and it is encrypted. I've used it for around 2 years now, backing up every week.
When ...
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Incorrect Boot Camp Delete
I tried to remove some space from the Boot Camp partition and return it to the Mac partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard. It required me to restart my Mac to have it work (MiniTool Partition ...
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M1 Mac: Debugging intermittent CFe memory card recognition by MacOS
I have a M1 Mac and trying to read some memory cards (CF Express B) using a INDMEM card reader. It is a simple card reader that accepts only CFe and does not require a power supply. I can see the card ...
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How Long Does fsck_hfs take for a 3TB external HDD?
I've been running
sudo fsck_hfs -fy -S -l /dev/disk2s2
for about 12 hours on an external 3TB hard drive.
So far, there's no output.
I'm on a 2011 iMac running High Sierra.
I've looked around, & ...
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fsck_apfs error 'Container superblock is invalid'
I'm trying to mount an old external SSD with an encrypted APFS volume on it.
Disk Utility shows it as Not Mounted and attempting to mount it results in the following:
Could not mount “disk2s2”. (com....
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Diagnosing runaway system storage when OmniDiskSweeper fails
Every few days now, I clear 1-2 GB from my hard drive and still get this alert of low disk space on the desktop:
Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimising storage
And in the Terminal:
Your ...
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Can't see files in mounted drive, but space is occupied
I was trying to make my external NTFS drive writable on macOS BigSur and followed a post, so I wrote the following commands:
sudo umount /Volumes/Untitled
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Mount
sudo mount -t ntfs -...
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Dealing with NTFS external drive on macOS
I want to use an external NTFS drive on my Mac.
I used paragon but since I changed my computer I don't have a license anymore and I would love to find a different method for using NTFS.
I read about ...
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Why is there a disk space discrepancy between System Report and Finder on MacOS Monterey?
I'm using MacOS Monterey on a 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro. I'm upgrading to new Monterey 15.0 soon.
I generally disabled Spotlight except to allow for App Store and OS updates.
I have a 500 GB hard drive ...
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Not able to boot into MacBook Air (2017)
I have a macbook Air 128 GB (2017) model. It was working fine, until I decided to reset it. I restarted and went into recovery mode, into Disk Utility and erased the “Macintosh HD” volume group. After ...
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How recover boot drive? Mount the macOS drive [duplicate]
I have problem. MacBook Pro 15 2010 A1286 with two OSes on-board: Win7 on BootCamp and macOS.
The second drive (which is installed instead of the DVD) is turned off when macOS worked. The plume fell ...
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MacOS Disk Utility not showing all the space
I had two disk paritions, (disk0s2 and disk0s4 that are roughly 300GB and 200GB respectively). I wanted to merge the smaller one with the larger one. I ran, in the following order:
diskutil ...
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Can I delete this extra Macintosh HD - Data partition?
I had Boot Camp set up on my late 2013 MacBook Pro. I was trying to remove Boot Camp and Windows to free up space, but Boot Camp told me I needed to run First Aid.
I ran First Aid but now my ...
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Disable "The disk you attached was not readable by this computer" for disk [duplicate]
When I enter a USB drive that is encrypted with veracrypt, I get an error message:
The disk you attached was not readable by this computer
Eject - Ignore - Initialize
Which I select "Ignore&...
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Recover and deduplicate Time Machine backup files
I have an old Time Machine backup and would like to recover the latest version of the files without restoring the backup to a whole computer.
For example, say that the Time Machine backup drive has ...
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SMART status failing : do I need to replace hdd?
So, I just 'saved' an iMac A1312 (2009) that was about to be thrown away with a bunch of other computers, at the university where I work. Most of the time the computers that are thrown out are in ...
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500 GB disk, 250 GB free space - Can't partition disk to add data
I have an issue on my Macbook.
I have had a dual boot with Windows (through Bootcamp) and removed this partition later as I didn’t need Windows anymore, I did this through the Bootcamp tool. Though, ...
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How dangerous is 'sudo hdiutil eject -force /Volumes/path' for filesystem integrity in terms of cache flushing and open file integrity?
I find myself having some trouble sometimes with ejecting volumes normally. Usually this seems to happen with volumes that really don't (or shouldn't) have any files open that are non-negotiably being ...
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Why does my iMac have 4 drives
I have a 2017 iMac with fusiondrive, where the drive always have been really slow. I then got my 1TB HDD replaced with a SSD, but still the same. I also seems I have four drives now after I had to ...
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Monterey retake space from free space partition
I have tried the method from this page but I cannot manage to reclaim the free space.
Output of diskutil list:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME ...
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MacBook Pro failed the OS update, and now disks are unavailable
My 2010 MacBook Pro that has been functioning without issues before failed a High Sierra update today, and then started showing a blinking folder icon, which indicated that it was not able to locate a ...
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Can I slow down the communication with an USB device?
I have an external hard drive that on these hot days suffers of overheating. So I thought that I could bypass the problem by slowing down the speed of the transfer of the files, it will take longer, ...
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Blank screen after a number of mistakes while installing Windows
TL;DR: I tried to install Windows on an old iMac and failed horribly. Now I am left with a blank screen and hope to recover to a state from which I can either use Mac or Windows.
I have been trying to ...
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San Disk Extreme 1TB SSD (1050Mb/s) taking up 10 times more storage than actual size
Just got a Sand Disk Extreme SSD, intially this 14gb filled the SSD to full, formatted it on windows with default allocation size and exFat format, still did the same.
Then formatted it on MacOS and ...
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External Hard drive not showing up in Disk Utility
I recovered a 160Gb hard drive (WD Scorpio Blue) from an Apple TV 1st generation.
I thought I could use it for storage.
But when I plug it in with an adapter, I don't see the drive show up in Disk ...
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Why will an APFS fail to mount, but HFS+ on same disk mounts successfully?
I got a new Western Digital 4TB MyBook a year ago that I was using as a Time Machine drive for my laptop. Just today, it suddenly failed to mount. I ran Disk Utility/First Aid on the drive which ...
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Recover "free space" on hard drive
How can I merge the free space on my MacBook with the rest of my hard drive? I tried to run Asahi then removed it
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Merge Unallocated Space with a macOS Extended (Journaled) Partition via Terminal
I have a 2 TB external hard drive and it contains an exFAT partition named "2 TB HDD" of 1.5 TB and a macOS Extended (Journaled) partition named "Time Machine" of 500 GB. I noticed ...
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HELP ME PLEASE - Partition of External Disk APFS is broken
In advance sorry for my very rusty English... I have an external disk where a partition is broken. I bought another identical external disk to try to substitute the partition with sudo gpt add and ...
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Can this SSD Hard Drive be used?
I got a 2TB SSD to replace my Mac Mini's internal HD.
When trying to clone my HD, Carbon Copy Cloner encountered several errors, after which I wasn't able to erase the SSD HD with Disk Utility.
The ...
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