Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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MacBook Pro won't boot with new hard drive, but a different MacBook Pro will
So here are the details. My friend and I both have 13-inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro's. Same processor and specs since they were purchased at the same time, but originally had 250 GB hard drives. His hard ...
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Is it safe to shake/move macbook air while its running?
I had this laptop and i know it's flash drive so i dont think there are moving parts, is it safe to shake it or move it without worry ? turn it upside down while its running ? how safe is this ?
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What sector is Photos folder on hard drive?
I'm trying to recover some deleted photos from my Mac, but the problem is that I'm not able to select what folder it should be looking in.
I am, however, able to select what sector it should be ...
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MacBook Air with Mavericks does not start up, no disk utility available
I have a severe problem with a MacBook Air. It does not start up, it hangs at wether a pure white background or white with the Apple logo. I tried to go into disk utility but pressing the option key ...
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Expanding a partition at the end of a drive to fill the entire drive
I have an external HDD connected to a Lion iMac (though I can use my Mountain Lion Air if it will make the process simpler) that was split right down the middle with two partitions. The first was ...
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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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Need help configuring specs for new Mac and my software needs [closed]
I have to buy a new Mac and I have two programs I'm hoping to optimize with the new set up. I know I can ask them in the Apple store but I know there's a lot of smart peeps on here so would love any ...
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Resize APFS partition in Big Sur
Like many people online, I've been having issues with resizing my APFS Partition ever since Big Sur (11.1 BETA). There was a point in time where I had 500GB of unusable free space that I couldn't ...
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MacOS partition doesnt boot up and shows as MBR part 255 [duplicate]
Sadly the post tagged as duplicated does not work for me
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Quick specs:
Macbook Pro Mid2012
500GB SSD thats been in the Macbook for around 4 years
MacOS Mojave
BOOTCAMP Windows (100GB)
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iMac HDD transfer files to windows PC without affecting Mac OS x
Hi I have iMac a very slow one and it's stops responding a lot and copying data takes ages so I want to transfer my data to a windows PC.
My question Is it possible to remove iMac hdd to transfer ...
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why is there a significant chunk of disk space (~124Gb) that Disk Utility isn't able to access?
~124GB is missing/inaccessible from Disk Utility.. I'm unable to resize the main partition, I'm unable to manipulate the missing space (delete, etc without erasing the entire disk). First aid on ...
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Can I use Time Machine for multiple different backups?
I have my Macintosh HD 500 Gb who backs up on two external hard drives (both 500 GB), so i have always two backups! But i have an other external hard drive (1TB) with a lot of footage on it which i ...
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Can naming/running a program “sudo” somehow cause problems?
I hope this is an appropriate place to post this--I have no idea what happened.
I named a c++ file (a simple sudoku solver) "sudo.cpp" and then compiled it with "g++ sudo.cpp -o sudo" and ran "./sudo"...
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Securing USB Drive in Place on iMac
The internal drive of my iMac went bust recently, the iMac is not under warranty anymore so I do not plan to fix it anytime soon. At the moment I am using an external drive and I am managing. The only ...
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My system seems stuck on Optimize hard drive in FileVault
Just upgraded to Yosemite. Going through the process it asked about file vault. I said yes to encrypt it, so it started to optimize hard drive it seems to be stuck on 2 hours left....probably been 3 ...
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Disk image volume becomes read-only on network drive
I have the following configuration based on this tutorial:
Read/write disk image (macOS Extended [Journaled]) created using Disk Utility called Backup.img which resides on a partition of an external ...
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How can I test the sustained write speed of a drive on macOS?
I would like to get an idea of the sustained read and write speeds of a drive that I have connected to my Mac. As you may know, most drives do not consistently read and write at the same speed as it ...
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Partition Removal Failure. Memory is now missing
I was trying to get rid of an old Bootcamp partition I didn't want on my 2012 Mac Mini. I was removing it from the disk utility app and I lost power half way through. Now the partition is gone, but ...
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Boot drive not recognised at all
After doing an update for iPad and open Google Chrome to watch streaming movies the MacBook Pro 13 mid 2012 has started to slow down and Chrome closed.
I restarted and a flashing folder appeared ...
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How to get back storage capacity from BOOTCAMP_VOL in Mojave without formatting?
I have a hybrid drive version of iMac, and from the start I have bootcamp installed in my iMac but barely ever used it. The OS has upgraded many times and not it is on Mojave. I realized a while ago ...
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Possible to mount a RAID1 pair over USB?
I have a pair of disks which I configured as RAID1 (mirrored) via Disk Utility on my Hackintosh.
I am now traveling, and took the disks with me, and want to mount them with my MacBook Pro using a USB ...
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4TB Seagate external drive not mounting in OS X El Capitan
I have a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB external hard drive that I had previously been using with this computer. I recently reformatted this drive as exFAT in order to use it to backup files from my MacBook ...
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Time Machine restore with iMac with Two Hard Drives
I accidentally fried my Mac OS. My computer has an SSD for the OS and an HDD for data. Does Time Machine back up the OS too? Does it back up both drives? I didn't see an option for that when I set ...
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When Mac OS freezes is it ok to hard shutdown?
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, so it has an SSD but no HDD. I use Dr. Cleaner and I've often noticed that when 99% of the app memory is being used, the OS X El Capitan freezes. At this point of time, ...
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Something is constantly eating my hard disk space [duplicate]
Something is constantly eating my hard disk space.
This pattern happens very often:
I free some space by deleting stuff (5-8 GB)
In about half an hour I have 0 (zero) free space
I have not ...
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Can I move a hard drive from a MacBook 13 to a MacBook 15?
I'm thinking of upgrading my machine to a 15" and wondering if I can just move the hard drive over and put a new one in the 13"?
The reason is my 13" Macbook has a 2TB HDD and I'd rather keep that ...
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Partition shown as FFFF and unmountDisk is unable to unmount [duplicate]
My Mac's HDD is not opening. When I enter diskutil umountDisk dev/disk0 shows:
At least one volume could not be unmounted
sais-MacBook-Pro:~ sk$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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Remove all purgeable space? [duplicate]
well the issue is that I use to have ~20gb free in my disk, after updating and removing around 30gb a lot of things, I still have 20gb free in the disk and still says it only has ~20gb free in reality ...
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WD hard drive for Mac Apple to read in Windows OS
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Is there any possible way that I can read my files on a WD hard drive on a Windows computer without reformatting the hard drive?
Because I know it is needed to reformat the hard drive before ...
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Why is exFAT so slow on Mac? (reloaded)
I have read questions here about exFat and its performance on the Mac. I think I can refute the previous answers and am therefore still looking for an answer or solution. But from the beginning:
My ...
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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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Hardrive will not mount after deleting Linux partition. Can’t boot into Mac OS X [duplicate]
I tried to delete a Linux partition on my hard drive. My hard drive was no longer bootable and the type turned into FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF. I tried to follow some of the other ...
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Unknown used space on hard drive
There's an unknown space that is used on my hard drive. I've already use DaisyDisk and OmniDiskSweeper but both haven't detected anything.
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macOS Sierra USB Issues
Has anyone faced any issues with the external hard drives or pen-drives not being detected on a MacBook that has been upgraded to macOS Sierra 10.12?
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"Permission error" when creating files on a new hard drive in Mac Pro
I just installed a 6TB HDD in a 2008 Mac Pro with 10.11.4 and am trying to make a symlink on it, ln -s /origin /destination, but I get Permission denied errors. I then tried to just create a file ...
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Changing from Virtual Hard Drive to Blank External Hard Disk [closed]
I have a blank hard disk (1 TB) that has more space than the virtual disk I am running OS X El Capitan on (89 GB). My OS is running on VMWare Player version 12, being used on Windows 10 single ...
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Apple MacBook 13-inch mid-2010, 4gb RAM, 250 Gb HDD: Can I dual Boot to Windows 10?
I'd like to put a larger hdd into this macbook, and then install Windows 10 onto it. Has Anybody successfully updated their Mac-based Wintel install with Windows 10, and what is involved?
I realize ...
