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External hard drive only visible in System Profiler, doesn't mount, not visible in Disk Utility (Mac)
I have an external hard drive that does not mount to my Mac laptop, nor is it visible in Disk Utility. It is, however, visible in the System Profiler under the USB section. Any suggestions as to how I ...
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Imaging Windows HD with a OS X Disk Utility fails, “Invalid Argument”
I have a Windows laptop HDD that I want to create an image file with, using OS X's Disk Utility.
When I try to create an image it fails (invalid argument). I created a video of me attempting to ...
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A Windows 7 tool to create an image from my bootable USB stick
I am looking for an efficient and preferrably free tool
to take a full copy of my USB stick and make a disk image from it
with possibility to write back to it.
Actually I have a CF-Disk and I am ...
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Anomalous Behavior in Gnome Disk Utility 2.30.2
I have recently been experiencing some anomalous behavior in regards to the interaction between my external hard drive and my OS. Hopefully someone will recognize this problem. In any case, some ...
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Can I delete any unwanted file or folder in already written CD or DVD?
I have a DVD which is already written few folders along with files, but now I want to delete few unwanted folders along with files. Is it possible?
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Disk Utility has been Shrinking disk for several hours on my MAC OS X 10.7 LION [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How long should it take for gparted to shrink a 44 GB partition down to 10 GB
I was trying to make 2 partitions in my local drive of my macbook. Disk Utility has been ...
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What hard disk tool will let me test sequential read speed beginning at a specified location on the disk?
I have a laptop drive that was booting Windows 7 extremely slowly and. Eventually I discovered the first part of the drive doesn't register bad sectors but is extremely slow to test with any software ...
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Ubuntu Disk isn't showing up at Boot
I recently installed ubuntu on a flash drive, following all of the instructions on the ubuntu website.
When I started up my mac, it didn't appear in the boot menu. Has this happened to anyone else ...
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Which tool should I use to wipe free space on Windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to quickly and effectively wipe a Win7 x64 hard drive
Which tool should I use to wipe free space on Windows 7?
It should be free and preferably open source.
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Disk Utility tells me to repair disk permissions from the DVD, but my DVD drive isn't working
I have an iMac with Snow Leopard that shows it is low on disk space. In Disk Utility, I select the hard disk and click "Verify Disk". It gives me an error and says to click "Repair Disk Permissions".
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How do I get the Smartware tools working on the HDD itself?
WD My Passport 0740 - WD Smartware
I'm posting because I have a problem with the Smartware that was IN the HDD. A friend of mine accidentally deleted the folder Smartware (that I created and placed ...
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Raid 0 failing on a mac mini server
I'm trying to set up a software striped raid configuration on a mac mini 2011 running lion server. The procedure seemed to be pretty straight forward, but the result was far from the expected. Here's ...
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windows spanned volume fails after sleep (requires restart)
I have a 4TB spanned volume in windows 7 professional 64bit (2TB x2 and a single 1TB). It works great after a boot/reboot, but if I put the computer to sleep, it fails to mount/the spanned volume on ...
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How do I reformat an unmountable/unrecognised/unformatted USB drive?
How do I reformat an unmountable/unrecognised/unformatted USB drive? It will not mount or format on Windows Vista or OSX Tiger.
Disk Utility sees the hardware, but no partition to mount.
Testdisk ...
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Snow Leopard doesn't repair permissions, despite showing / saying its fixed them?
Sometime ago, I used carbon copy as I was replacing my hard drive in my Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. Afterwards, on my new drive I had some permission problems.
I've tried several times running a ...
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Spurious high disk io rate alerts from remote server
I have a server running on linode. The server is a headless Ubuntu 10.0.4 64 bit installation.
I have recently started getting high disk I/O alerts from the server. As far as I know, nothing much has ...
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Equivalent of badblocks on Windows or DOS
Is there a utility in DOS or Windows that is as thorough as badblocks on Linux?
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Mac OSX Terminal cmd/script to display HDD sectors pending allocation
I've been trying to find a way to get terminal to display results of a SMART status check in the terminal for a recovery drive I use.
The cmd diskutil info or diskutil info -plist / only say whether ...
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Copying a software RAID 1 to a normal SATA II disk
I need to copy my software RAID 0 (GA-P55-UD5, intel controller) to a normal SATA II disk. I've tried Clonezilla but it won't recognize my RAID volume; just the single disks that are part of it.
How ...
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MacBook Pro 13" (Mid-2009) hard drive utility disk read error
My MacBook Pro was running normally a few days ago but all of a sudden in the middle of a garage band session, I got the beachball. I then realized the whole computer was frozen. I have had this ...
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Create new partition on encrypted volume in OS X Lion
Updated: see below.
I encrypted a 500 GB partition on an external 1TB drive on OS X Lion. The other 500 GB was not used yet and I want to create another partition on the external drive now. Disk ...
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Disk Utility Error: Newer Version of Mac OS X needed?
In Snow Leopard's Disk Utility (OS X 10.6.8) what does the error:
Partition failed with the error:
This operation requires a newer version of Mac OS X for this disk
mean? I've never seen it ...
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how to make a OS hard drive extended with another hard drive
I have 30GB for my Windows Seven installation and an extra 320GB hard drive. I would like to extend them together so that I don't have to specify each and every installation of an application. I have ...
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osx snow leopard - how to merge partitions on external drive when one partition appears as a cd drive
I got a cool promotional usb drive and I would like to format it for personal use. It has two partitions: one appears as a regular external drive and is actually empty, while the other appears on my ...
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sdelete alternative on osx
In the sysinternals suite for windows there is this nifty sdelete tool for securely deleting individual files as well as overwriting unallocated disk space with randomness or zeroes ( the -c or -z ...
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Shrink a .sparseimage
I have a .sparseimage that occupies 90GB of space on my hard drive despite only having 30GB of files in it. How can I reclaim the empty space used by the .sparseimage and compact the file?
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Boot utilities for 3 TB hard drives
What hard disk/partitioning/GPT/cloning/etc. utilities are there to have on a bootable USB drive or CD/DVD, that can work with NTFS and other file systems, on hard drives greater than 2.1 TB?
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MacBook Pro not recognizing external HDD
My hard drive is about to flake out, and I'm trying to back everything up before it dies. However, it is now not recognizing my LaCie external hard drive. I can see the drive in Disk Utility, and I ...
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Mac Disk Utility Undo volume scheme change
My sister made a mistake when trying to reformat a hard drive, and buggered up a hard drive with her work on it. She says it happened very quickly which leads me to believe she's actually just ...
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Macbook Pro Hard Drive won't show up on disk startup
I have a Macbook Pro from 2007. It came with an installation CD for 10.4.8.
The first problem is that it won't even recognize the installation CD even though the CD seems perfectly fine. So I used ...
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tool to quickly check how many sectors there are on a external Hard drive - specifically an Ipod - preferably on windows
I've got an old ipod with bad sectors that i'm trying to format with error checking. At this point of time, i'm convinced that its checked more sectors than there are, and the check has been ACTIVELY ...
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System Reserved partition no longer marked as System
I recently posted a question to Super User about accidentally marking my external HDD's partition as Active and how I could undo my accidental mistake. I followed the instructions provided and they ...
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Clone a SATA disk to external USB disk and then back to SATA disk [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Easiest way to copy or clone boot partition onto new hard drive
I need to clone a SATA disk from a Windows 7 computer to an external USB disk. After that I will replace ...
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How to partition a 220 GB disk drive for redhat linux 4.8
I'm installing RHEL 4.x to a hard disk that already has windows 7 enterprise installed. I would like to dual-boot both the OSes. The hard drive size is about 220 GB (of which windows 7 occupies about ...
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External Hard Drive Won't Mount - MAC OSX
I have a Western Digital hard drive that's about 4 or 5 years old. It's 500 GB, USB. I use it to backup my Mac every so often. I had it partitioned: 1 side for full backups, and the other side for ...
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How do I format the whole disk after using my machine?
Is there any light utility that can format the whole disk including OS drive?
I need to erase sensitive data after using the machine.
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Is there a way to make Windows 7 install .iso onto USB drive from OSX?
I copied my windows 7 cd to a ISO and trying to source the image onto my USB drive from OSX. So far it doesn't seem like it's possible with disk utility. Is there something else I can do to make this ...
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After repairing permissions, Mac OS X won't boot
This morning I ran the Repair Permissions command from inside the Disk Utility. Ever since then my MacBook wont move past the splash screen when booting.
I've revolted in verbose mode and I see that ...
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Any recommendations for a good disk imaging software package for Windows XP, free if possible?
I've always used Ghost at work, but at home I don't have a copy.
Can anyone recommend some software which will image my main windows XP system partition to another partition ?
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disk partition issue in XP
How to partition disk dynamically on Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)? Currently, I only have one drive C, and I want to divide it into Drive C, Drive D and Drive E without data lost.
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bootable media to take a raw partition image?
I'm looking for a free/commercial application on a bootable media to quickly take raw partition images, preferably with network support for destination.
I normally use ddrescue, but initializing a ...
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Difference between using disk and its only partition in disk utility?
This isn't a problem but a simple question. In Mac OS X's included disk utility, you can perform actions on volumes through the list on the left by click on a drive, or any of its partitions. I've ...
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PerfectDisk 11 (Defragmenter): Difference between layout.ini management options
I would like to ask what is the difference in Windows 7 between these two settings in managing layout.ini and files needed to start the computer in PerfectDisk 11 Professional: (1) 'Let PerfectDisk ...
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Mac (PowerPC G5) gets kernel panics when booting off of installation disks
I've ran disk utility's disk verify on Mac OS 10.4 on a PowerPC G4, and it told me the computer's volume should be repaired. I lost the install disks for now, so I booted it off a Tiger installation ...
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diskutil command not found in OS X terminal
I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4 and am struggling with the command:
diskutil
Whenever I type in diskutil the terminal says:
-bash: diskutil: command not found
Does anyone know what the problem might ...
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Erase and other options disabled in Disk Utility
When accessing an SD-HC card on Snow Leapard many of the options to erase, partition and repair are disabled. The disk is appearing as a read-only file system formatted in FAT-32 so I can't delete the ...
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Difference between ISO, MDS & BIN/CUE disk image formats?
What is the difference between these major disk image formats? Are there any specific advantages / disadvantages for any of them?
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Formatted USB flash drive with Disk Utility on Mac and now it is not recognized on any Mac or Windows machine
I have formatted Canyon CN-MP4A USB flash drive with Disk Utility on Mac and now it is not recognized on any Mac or Windows machine. I have formatted with Disk Utility > drive > Erease > ...
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How can I turn off journalling on an OS X boot disk?
I'm new in all this OS X stuff. I'm running OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I want to be able to access and modify my disk under Ubuntu. For that I was told that I needed to turn of journalling on that disk. I've ...
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Disk map software needed
I'm looking for some disk mapping software for Windows (a software that graphically displays disk space usage) that doesn't use Cushion Treemaps.
