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Connecting a USB 3 hard drive to a Mac Mini
I've got a USB 3 external hard drive and a Mac Mini 2012 with USB 3 ports. If I want to get USB 3 speeds on the hard drive, I assume I need a special USB 3 cable with the blue inserts. They seem to be ...
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External HDD partitioning - Mac OS X
I'm a Mac OS 10.8 user and I have a 1TB USB HDD partitioned before from my Mac in 3 parts. Now, I want to add another back-up partition but I'm not able to do it : I can't do anything on the HDD, not ...
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2.5 inch vs. 3.5 inch drive reliability [closed]
A few days ago I started getting the famous "Spinning Beach Balls" when read/writing to disk on my Mac (this isn't really a Mac specific question but it will refer to Mac tools, FWIW). In any case I ...
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What could I use to recover lost/damaged files from a Mac hard drive? [closed]
We frequently use the software GetDataBack (for FAT32 and for NTFS) to recover overwritten or lost files, sometimes from a faulty hard drive.
But is there something like this for Mac hard drives? ...
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Optimal way to share one external drive to multiple machines [duplicate]
I bought an external drive (WD "My Passport" 2Tb USB3.0) and am looking for the "right way" to share it between a PC and Mac. I am currently sharing a folder on the PC's HDD with my Mac over wifi ...
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diskutil mountDisk with password
I'm trying to mount a disk with password from the terminal, i try:
diskutil mount Harddrive
I Get:
Unable to find disk for Harddrive
This is because the disk isn't in Volumes until i entered the ...
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Accessing a Macbook Pro in Target Disk mode over Thunderbolt from Windows
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 with Thunderbolt booted into Target Disk Mode, as well as a Gigabyte motherboard model number GA-Z77X-UP4 TH running Windows 7. The MBP has two internal disks formatted ...
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Why is my portable WD My Passport drive not recognized?
My Western Digital My Passport portable drive is not recognized in OS X. It used to be recognized, but not anymore. It does not appear in /Volumes.
The hard drive is recognized by a Linux machine. I ...
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Connecting to a 2.5" laptop drive using USB
So I swapped my MBP hard drive with a SSD drive, and I want to connect to my old hard drive.
I bought a nextstar 3 external 2.5" drive enclosure that has a USB 2.0 interface. I watched an online ...
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Replacing mbp hdd with a ssd and using the hdd for backups? [closed]
Hi I would like to replace my macbook pros HDD with a SSD. I currently have a 750gb HDD in my mac and would still like to use this as a backup. Is there a bit of kit that I can use to allow me to use ...
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Mac Finder: WD My Passport won't mount
I really need your help. I have a WD My Passport 650GB (with Firewire and USB).
I'm using it for almost a year now and it always worked fine. While underway I simply plug it in via Firewire - at home ...
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My external disk made a clicking noise. What should I do?
I have a USB2+Firewire external disk that made a clicking noise, and Mac OS X immediately unmounted it and put up a dialog box saying that a peripheral is misbehaving. The disk made a clicking noise ...
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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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Can I use a USB attached Hard Drive on Win7 for TimeMachine backup?
I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive. I would like to use this as my Time Machine backup HDD for my new MacBook. After a bit of research I've found that I can't simply share the HDD via my ...
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formatted external hard drive (FAT32) is un recognizable in Windows 7
So I bought a new 500GB external hard drive. I have a Windows 7 and a OSX 10.5.2 Leopard (Which I'm very new to)
I've heard formatting the drive to Fat32 would make it compatible with Windows and ...
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External HDD sometimes slows down MacBook Pro
I have an external HDD which I leave attached to my MacBook Pro for most of the time.
Sometimes when the system is slow to response to a UI action, I notice that the MacBook is taking time to whir ...
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Trouble viewing files with non-English names on hard-disk
I have a problem that I don't even know where to begin looking for help (google isn't helping)
I have an external hard drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I had been using it with my ...
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Is it OK to install Xcode on a removable drive?
I have a MBP running 10.6.8 with a 120 SSD hard drive. I would like to use XCode on the machine, but that requires a decent amount of space so I was thinking about an external drive.
How closely is ...
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Best Drive Format for a 2TB Seagate External HDD, which can be supported in all OS
I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk External HDD. I want to format it. Which is the best disk format, which will be supported in all OS, like Windows, Linux and Mac?
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NTFS and FAT32 Drive not Writable
I am using Mac OS X 10.3.3+, and an external USB drive. I have partitioned the drive into the following:
200gb - NTFS
32gb - FAT32
8GB - NTFS
40 - NTFS
This takes up the entire drive. When I connect ...
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WD mybook Windows with Mac partition over the top. Is the windows information lost?
This is the worst technological day of my life, First my macbooks harddrive crashes. I try to use my friends Windows formatted hard drive (1.1TB used of 2TB) to make a mac partition to backup an image ...
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My western digital harddisk does not get detected on my macbook pro and imac
I accidently pulled out my western digital harddisk and ever since its not getting detected on my macbook pro and imac. The error msg which pops up says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this ...
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Mac - External hard drive backups
I have two external hard drives, WD 320GB and a WD 1TB.
I would like to backup my WD 320GB on a regular basis. Please could you inform me of a good application which could provide these needs:
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Which is the best file system to use in an external hard drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What filesystem for shared (read/write) PC/Mac external drive?
I've bought a Samsung S2 500GB External Hard Drive. The disk came with FAT32 file system, but I formatted ...
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cannot format HDD in OSX
I have a new 4TB external drive. If the device is on, my mac will fail to boot (blank white screen) and when the drive is turned off, reboot immediately resumes. I cannot boot to safe mode, single ...
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Why do firewire drives on Mac OS cause processes to go into uninterruptible wait?
I have a Western Digital My Passport Studio external hard drive. It works with either Firewire 800 or USB 2.0. I've noticed that when I have it connected to Firewire, after a few hours, processes on ...
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OSX Doesn't Recognize My External USB Hard-Drive Sometimes
After ejecting my external HDD, how can I get OSX to detect it without having to take it out of the USB and plugging it back in?
Sometimes plugging back in doesn't work and I have to restart my ...
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Can't access files on external drive after reformatting Macbook Pro
I recently had to reformat my Macbook Pro, and imported my account and settings from Time Machine via the Migration Assistant. Everything on the Mac itself is fine, but now I don't have permission to ...
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External HDD won't stay mounted
After turning time machine on and then off again for an external volume, the disk will spontaneously unmount and takes around 30 seconds to list directories. Disk utility can't find anything wrong ...
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I want to access the documents from my Mac that I backed up using Time Machine on my PC. How do I do this?
I can't take my iMac desktop with me to Colorado so I decided to take an old PC laptop I had. I backed up all of my Mac files using Time Machine onto an external hard drive. How do I access these ...
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How to operate several macs in different locations using one external hard drive
i operate from several different geographic locations ,regional and international and do not want to carry around a macbook everywhere, regionally i use a push bike so it gets too bulky with a ...
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Mac Time Machine drive is “too small” or “permanately damaged”?
I have a 80gb HD in my Mac Mini... but only about 30gb of it is in use. I thought an old 60gb HD would be MORE than enough space. (Since I don't need to keep many duplicate copies of old files. ...
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How to boot an MBP from an external HD?
I created a clone partition of my main drive with SuperDuper on an external (USB) drive. How can I boot from it?
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Can I resume backing up in Time Machine on my Mac?
I'm in the process right now of creating a backup in Time Machine, but I don't think I have enough time to fully make the back up.
If I cancel now (Press the little X button next to the "Backing up x ...
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Would there be any problem having a Mac Time Machine backup on a multi-partitioned external USB drive?
Question pretty sums it up - should I expect any problems having an external USB hard drive with 2 or more partitions and using one of those partitions as my Mac Time Machine backup (formatted HFS+ of ...
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A little issue with a RAID setup
I have a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB external hard disk drive. Internally, it has two 1TB drives configured in a RAID setup. I recently purchased a Drobo and no longer want to use ...
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Isolating external hard drive failure?
I have a fairly new (~1.5 years old) external WD My Book with a bunch of audio projects that I'd like to recover. I'm wondering if there are any clever tricks I can try before pulling the disk out of ...
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Programs keep waiting for external disk to spin up - how to ignore disk?
Like many Mac users I have an external Firewire disk hooked up to my Mac to be used by Time Machine. This works very well, backup-wise.
The problem is that very often when I use a Mac application and ...
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How to read and write Mac drives on Windows
I have some external hard drives that are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted. What software can you recommend for working with those drives when under Windows? Do you have any experience with this?
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increase performance of virtual machines on the 27" imac
I'm using a 27" iMac (i7, 8GB RAM) at work and normally run two or three virtual machines at the same time, which hurts the performance of each virtual machine.
I've learned on these forums the best ...
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Speed of Windows XP on external USB harddrive using VirtualBox on Mac
I am considering installing Windows XP on an external hard drive in a VM with VirtualBox, but I am worried about it's speed? Would the slow transfer rate of USB slow down the performance of VirtualBox ...
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Non-ejected Time Machine external HDD no longer connects to Mac
I accidentally unplugged (without ejecting) my formatted external Seagate HDD I've been using happily as a Time Machine on my Mac. Now the disk itself isn't recognised by the computer, and the light ...
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Using eSata on external hard drive
I have a Lacie D2 Quadra that I have been using through firewire 800. Mac pros at school have an eSata hookup, but my HD will not show up when I try to use it this way. I have assumed the drive is not ...
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Apple Time Machine hard drive
I'm thinking of purchasing a hard drive for the time machine option on my macbook pro.
If I buy a large hard drive, can I still use it to store my own stuff or does it all get used up by Time Machine ...
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I have recieved an external harddrive. How can I use it between my pc and mac simultaneously? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I share an external hard drive between a Mac and a PC?
I just received a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. I'd like to be able to use it on both my mac and pc ...
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Are Time Machine backups secure?
I have my Time Machine backups on an external disk (WD My Passport with no hardware encryption) and I'm worried if the data stored on the disk is safe in case somebody steals it and connect it to any ...
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How to repair permissions on a non-system HD?
I have my user folder on a another (internal) disk. Now I have
to repair permissions and don’t know how to do it. I suppose
to do this via the terminal would be the proper way.
If there is any tool, ...
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FAT32 External HDD formated with Mac OS not mountable on a Windows machine
I have an external HDD that I formated in FAT32 using Mac OS X. I don't know how but it's unmountable in a Windows XP machine running SP3. The HDD size is 500Gb and it contains a single partition. Is ...
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Should a Mac mount an USB external NTFS drive by default?
I Have an External USB hard disk (Seagate 500Gb) which came formatted as NTFS which I want to use to back up a friend's slightly creaky G4 MacBook. When I plug the drive in however, it does not appear ...
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Daisy-Chained firewire drives
I want to daisy-chain a couple of fw800 drives to my mac and sync data between them. If possible I would like to run software raid 1 on them. So I am looking for input around the following questions:
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