Commonly used to refer to Disk Utility.app, an application included with OS X.
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MacBook Air startup disk not found, but verified
I have a MacBook Air that has suddenly stopped booting at all. I booted into recovery mode and see the harddrive fine in Disk Utility. The partition is there as well marked: Mac OS X Base System. I ...
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What are “Missing thread recordng” erros when running fsck -fy?
There is some error reported when I run Disk Utility and verify the root volume on my OS X MacBook. So I boot and CMD-S into the shell mode and run /sbin/fsck -fy.
Errors are like:
** Checking ...
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Unable to open a dmg file error “file too large”
I created a dmg file of a 16 gb USB flashdrive a few weeks ago that was formatted fat32 and I am now unable to open the file. The file is only 804mb, but when I try and open it, I get an error window ...
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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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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase
Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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How do you format a 2GB SD card to FAT32? (Preferably with Disk Utility)
I've been looking around for a way to do this for a while, but haven't been able to find the answer. I need to format my 2GB SD card to FAT-32, but I don't see the option in Disk Utility.
If I ...
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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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palimpsest not opening the disk management
I am using Ubuntu. I found from web search that to open Disk management below command is needed:
sudo palimpsest
But when I am trying it in the terminal and result was : command not found.
I also ...
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Fix bad blocks on Mac hard disk
I have a hard disk that I scanned with TechTool and it reports one bad block. As far as I can tell, TechTool only scans and reports a failure. It doesn't fix anything.
Back in the day, Norton Disk ...
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Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive?
This morning CHKDSK ran on its own during boot. It scanned 1 out of 3 HDDs in my PC. Is it a warning sign that that particular HDD is about die?
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Not enough disk space when doing a SOAP request on mac osx
I'm on Mac osx, I'm sending a SOAP request and the response is:
There is not enough space on the disk.
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
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is there a remote version of KDirStat
I love KDirStat (or equivalent) but I would like to be able to run it on remote host (which doesn't have X11 installed). Is there anything avaible (and free) which will allow me to get a treemap of ...
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Enlarging disk partition on Mac OS X
I have deleted the primary partition from my computer, and installed Mac OS Lion on a second. Now I want to enlarge the "Lion" partition, to make it fill the whole drive. I've been struggling to ...
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I want to reformat my external hard disk but disk utility said it could not be unmounted
Hi I wanted to reformat my HP 500GB hard disk to MS DOS (FAT) by using Disk Utility but Disk Utility kept saying that the hard disk cannot be unmounted. I tried googling it but nothing seems to answer ...
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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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Cannot run diskutil, sudo or not
I cannot run diskutil on my brand new Retina Macbook Pro 2012. When I try to run it, (including sudo), the terminal says "command not found". I looked in usr/bin and usr/sbin and could not find ...
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How can I resolve the error “MediaKit reports partition (map) too small”?
I am unable to expand my Mac's hard disk. diskutility reports this error:
MediaKit reports partition (map) too small
How can I resolve this?
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Frequent Mac lockups due to fsck_hfs
My Macbook Pro (10.6.8) locks up every day at noon for several minutes (and often after sleep).
I put 'Activity Monitor' up front right before noon sorted by %CPU, and saw that it ran 'fsck_hfs'. ...
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Use sparse image bundle instead of split and concat
Is it possible to use sparse image bundles on the Mac in the same fashion as I would use files splitted with Terminals split command?
If I show the package contents of the sparse image bundle in the ...
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I forgot my encrypted disk password on OS X
My disk is formatted with Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). I have a super long and random password. It won't let me paste my password in and I keep manually typing it wrong. There is nothing on ...
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Cannot resize OS X partition
I am trying to resize my existing Mac OS Extended partition on my Macbook to install Windows 7 (using steps similar to these), but when ever I go to apply the changes, I get this error:
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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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How to back up “The disk has S.M.A.R.T. errors” and fix the errors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode
My computer won't start up past the login screen so first i tried Safe Mode [Shift+Start up] didn't work . Then I ...
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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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Recover from botched full disk encryption using FileVault2
I decided to enable full disk encryption using FileVault2 in OSX Mountain Lion, but near the end of the encryption process, I get a message telling me that it failed, and that I should disable and ...
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How is OS X Disk Utility's secure erase mode in comparison to other commerical secure delete methods/apps?
Within OS X, the utility Disk Utility has a secure erase for hard drive formatting. It has 1,7, and 33 pass options, which to my knowledge are very good writting random data to the drive. What does ...
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Verifying permissions on OSX
Last week i was having trouble installing homebrew onto a new mac running mountain lion, i tried adding command line tools for xcode and installing X11 aswell as following a load of other things i ...
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Hard Drive Bad Sector marking utility
I already have Windows XP, During installing Ubuntu(dual boot) the disk drive just stuck up at one place and doesn't seem to move ahead..
Is there a disk bad sector mark utility that just marks these ...
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System Does Not Boot From Various Bootable Recovery Disks
No matter what recovery system I have used, be it Acronis recovery disk or some other recovery disk that is intended for emergency system restoration, my system just stalls but still responds ...
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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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Safe and fast way to move a partition to begining of disk?
How can I move a partition to beginning of the disk in a fast and safe way?
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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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Create .img of a disk from command line?
I need to create a .bin or .img of a disk from the command line. I have tried using rawcopy (an .exe that I downloaded from the internet), but that is rubbish. Does anyone know of other ...
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How do you access the contents of a mounted DMG drive mounted through hdiutil and diskmout
My external USB drive failed. I made a .dmg image file of the drive using disk utility. Later I was not able to mount the .dmg image. I used terminal
hdiutil attach -noverify -nomount name.dmg
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Mysterious “media” volume mounted on desktop Mac OS X
I have a mysterious volume mounted on my desktop that I can't seem to forcibly unmount. I've tried using umount and also diskutil, but it seems to automatically remount itself. I've copied my hdd with ...
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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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Diskwarrior 4.4 rebuild won't see disk
I'm having a bit of trouble with my hard disk and disk utility can't 'repair' it.
I have DiskWarrior 4.4 but when I start up with it it won't 'see' my Hard Drive (although I can see its SMART status, ...
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OS X 10.7 and 10.8 continuously going corrupt on several machines, disk unable to repair, requires clean install
I'm managing about a dozen iMacs varying in age from 3 years to 6 months. Every iMac has an afterparty 256GB Crucial M4 SSD, which have all been installed since roughly the beginning of the year. ...
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Create disk image from flash drive
I have a 16 gb flash drive that is formatted using my mac, made bootable, and an OSX installation image put on it. I'd like to keep that drive around so I can do it again in the future, but I don't ...
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Util to check external USB Drive health?
I tried a few utils and none of them worked. Either USB wasnt supported or the drive was 'recognized'. I am trying to figure out if i should dump the drive or not. Its only a year old but the warranty ...
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What can I do when I get a “Cannot Allocate Memory” error after restoring a disk image?
I've downloaded Mac OS X Mountain Lion today and wanted to backup the installation image to a USB drive for later.
I've created a new empty partition of at least 8 GB size on the external drive using ...
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External USB hard drive acting like internal drive
The power went out and my external hard drive got pretty messed up. After several repair attempts I gave up and tried formatting the thing. I wasn't watching, but I believe Disk Utility hung on ...
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Truecrypt or default Disk Utility on Mac?
Windows by default doesn't come with a password protect folder option (other that Win7 ultimate), so I used to swear by Truecrypt which was great. But I've read in a couple of places that Mac OS X by ...
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How can I create a partition for OSX without erasing other partions on the disk?
I'm trying to install OS Lion on my desktop using uniBeast. I want OSX to be on the same disk as my Windows 7 installation, but the installer's disk utility won't let me create a new partition out of ...
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What does the Boot Camp Assistant do to my drive that I can't just do with Disk Utility?
What I understand is that Windows 7 will not install on GPT (GUID Partition Table) drives. Of course, all new Macs have their drives partitioned that way, and when you run the boot camp assistant, it ...
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USB Drive cannot detect in Windows 7
Have you ever plugged in a USB drive or any external device with a hard drive and wondered why you cannot see it in My Computer?
I often have, I believe my USB is not broke .. because if I plugin the ...
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Carbon copy cloner vs Disk Utility save disk image
im trying to replace my macbook pro hard drive and want to migrate the lion and windows 7 partitions to the new drive without having to reinstall anything
my question is..
What's the difference ...
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Zerofree never ends. Is it doing anything?
I have been trying to use zerofree to reduce the size of my VM.
It worked fine for one filesystem, but the other was mounted on / so it wouldn't let me.
Then I figured I could use the 'recovery ...
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Tool to retrieve information about which hard-disk is connected to which disk-controller (Windows)?
When servicing servers I often find lots of various disks connected to several HD-controllers.
To find and replace a specific disk in a server filled with disks often becomes rather tedious.
So the ...
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Automated Clonezilla like backups?
I have a laptop with two hard drives; one SSD (64gb) and one HDD (750gb). My SSD contains important files and OS (Windows) files.
I would like to store an image of my SSD on my HDD for backup ...
