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Can I run Windows 8 dual boot on a mac using an external drive instead of having both OS's on the internal drive
Basically, I want to keep Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro's hard drive only, I don't want to partition the drive to install Windows 8. I'm already using Win7 and WinXP in Parallels Desktop ...
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Why SMART is passing while it indicates failure for RAW read error rate?
I have an external USB disk (WD Elements Caviar Green 2 To, WD20EADS-00W4B0) that started to fail (slow reads). My system logs didn't show anything unusual, this definitely indicates some supposedly ...
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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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Ejecting one drive locks disk utility
I have two external USB drives connected to my mac. If I use Disk Utility to eject one then Disk Utility locks-up until the external drive wakes from hibernation (unparks, spins up). Why?
This is ...
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OSX Drive plugged into Win 7 via external
A friend of mine's Apple laptop stopped booting. HDD issues. So he popped out the HDD and gave it to me to see if I could recover any files.
I've done this with PCs multiple times. Even if an HDD is ...
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Sharing external hard drive for backups and file exchange by Mac and PC through wi-fi
I've had problems using a BUFALLO 1T HDD for both Time Machine backups on the Mac (Intel based) and system backups on the PC (Win 7) as well as for file sharing for both of the computers via wifi ...
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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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How to use my new external HD for Time Machine backup
I use Mac OS X 10.6.8. I have a brand new external portable hard disk, a Seagate 1 TB, formatted as NTFS. I want to use it as backup drive for Time Machine.
When I open Time Machine, it does not ...
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OS X installation on an external HDD
I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or ...
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How to format an external hard drive as UDF on a Mac
I have an external USB hard drive that I'd like to format to UDF for cross-compatibility with Windows and Macs. I tried exFAT, but for whatever reason, because of the block size (56KB) of the format, ...
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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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Segate NTFS hard disk on Mountain Lion
I have Segate external hard disk which can hold upto 1 TB data. I was able to use this hard disk on my Mac laptop even after upgrading to Mountain Lion.
However since last 2 weeks I am not able to ...
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How to trigger a script when unmounting a hard drive or restarting?
I've recently installed NTFS-3G through Homebrew in order to access NTFS drives from OSX. There's a slight problem with it: after unmounting the drive, if you take a look at /Volumes/, you can still ...
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External hard drive to work with Windows, OSX & Linux?
I have an 1 TB external hard drive and I'm going to use it with OSX, Windows XP/7 and Ubuntu, mostly for backup. I'm thinking of creating a bigger FAT32 partition to exchange files between the OS's ...
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WD Passport Won't Mount
My WD Passport won't mount. However, it turns on when plugged into my macbook and doesn't make any strange noises. It took a small fall (just a few inches and it was on my couch) and I'm very ...
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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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What Filesystem should be used for a 4TB drive for both Windows and OSX compatibility? [closed]
Note: I am aware of similar questions. The one's I seen here are for Windows, OSX, and Linux (which I do not need). I also can use Mountain Lion, which the other questions did not mention.
I was ...
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mount external hard drive in safe boot mode - osx
osx question: Is it possible to mount an external hard drive whilst in safe boot mode? If so, how?
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external hard drive not responding
I made a big mistake by unplugging the external harddrive (2TB, western digital) while it was still copying files. I just forgot it was copying files.
Now the hard disk won't respond. When I plug it ...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can
I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT.
The formatting ...
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MacOSX: Truecrypt partition on HDDs with larger sector size than 512 bytes
I have an external USB 3.0 HDD which uses a sector size larger than 512 bytes (4kB). In Linux, I created a truecrypt encrypted partition on it, which works fine on any Linux or Windows Computer. ...
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How to partition a drive so it can be used for Windows and Mac OS X?
I want to use this 2TB hard drive with this hard drive docking station with Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Windows 7. What file system should I choose for the partition? I plan to do the initial partitioning ...
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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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Migrate user accounts to external drive. Avoid backing them all up to time machine again
I bought an additional external hard drive for my aging iMac in order to migrate /Users from the internal drive.
I use Time Machine to manage backups.
I know I can just copy the accounts and data to ...
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Can a hp SimpleSave 2TB External Hard Drive be recovered thats possibly been infected by a Mac computer?
A hp simplesave 2TB external HD owner, recently lent it out. When it came back, it couldn't be used with Windows anymore
They thought it may have become too full
It went to the 2nd person again with ...
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OS X Lion thinks Windows UDF-formatted external drive as exFAT and tells that the drive is invalid
I've recently bought a Mac, and I want to share my Seagate FreeAgent 1.5 TB external hard drive with both my Mac and my PC. I've searched and found that exFAT or UDF is the way to go to have ...
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Would it better to partition my secondary drive?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (MBP). The main drive is a Solid State Disk (SSD) with OSX. I have removed the SuperDrive and replaced it with a 750GB Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD) (this is the secondary drive).
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My Passport external drive, usb drive for Windows and for Mac
I'd like to have this My Password Essential external drive and my usb drive on both the Windows PC and the Mac. I have had them only on the Windows PC and have backed up a lot of files on them. I'd ...
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Ways to recover data from external hard drive
I use an external hard disk for backup of my mac with time machine (OS 10.5.8).
I have made something wrong and I have found important folders in the recycler bin. These folders come from external ...
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Global keyboard shortcut to eject external hard drive on Mac OSX Lion?
Is there a global keyboard shortcut to eject an external hard drive? If not, can I install one?
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Do I need to partition my external harddrive to use for both PC and Mac backups?
I have a Buffalo HD-CEU2 1TB external hard drive. I want to use it to back up my Mac and a Windows machine. If possible I would like to use the Time Machine software on my Mac to do this and just use ...
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Clone External Hard Drive Without Leaving a Record on the Drive Itself
I have an external hard drive which I need to make an exact copy of, but I need to do so without leaving any trace of the operation on the original drive.
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I suspect the ...
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Partition External Harddrive already using Time Machine?
I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac ...
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Why won't my drive boot over FireWire?
I have a brand new Western Digital MyPassport Studio, which I'd like to use as a utility drive. It will boot my Mac Pro over USB, but not over FireWire 800. Western Digital's support basically told me ...
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Install XP on an external USB stick in a macbook without OS X installation damage
I have a macbook pro running os x lion and would like to play some windows xp games (grand thef auto san andreas, etc). Through vmware fusion or parallels it is quite slow and my disk is full so ...
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Copy OS X from MacBook Pro to USB External Hard Drive
How can I copy my OS X to an external hard drive, so I may use the USB hard drive to start up my daughter's MacBook?
Her MacBook will not boot up, but instead shows a solid blue screen.
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Method for Booting Windows XP/7 from an External Hard Drive?
I currently own a Macbook Pro, and got rid of the optical drive to instead use a second hard drive in its place.
This second hard drive contains an installation of Windows 7, which was installed from ...
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Format NTFS external drive to OSX
Is there anyway of converting an external drive which is NTFS to OSX...I don't want to be able to write to NTFS from my Mac, I want to format the drive and use it as if its made for OSX in OSX format.
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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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How to copy files to read-only NTFS hard drive on a Mac
I want to copy my some files from Mac (Macbook-Air) to a USB external hard drive, formatted as NTFS.
How is it possible? Because when I do copy my files from the Mac and go to paste them on the ...
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Install OS X or Windows 7 from an external HDD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to setup Windows from an external hard drive?
I want to install an OS (Mac OS X, Windows 7 or 8 beta) from my external HDD, since I don't have any USB sticks or ...
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Keep connection to external HDD alive on Mac OSX
Currently I have an external hdd connected to my Mac Mini and (as a temporary measure) we are backing this up to Dropbox using a Symbolic Link. This works fine but the main problem is when the ...
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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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Lost ability to write to NTFS USB disk using MacFUSE and OS X
Up until recently I was able to read and write files from my MacBook Pro to my 1.5TB USB Western Digital HD. I recently lost that ability after a friend copied a folder onto the harddrive from his ...
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OSX: Automagically creating a list of the files/folders on external hard drives, to see what's on them when they're disconnected
I want to be able to see a list of the files and folders on my external hard drives, without having to plug them in first.
A program that scans external drives when they're plugged in and keeps a ...
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Secure Empty Trash shows over 60,000 items - Trash folder shows 60
On OS X 10.5.8, I opened all folders in the Trash & it shows 60 items total. I clicked "Secure Empty" and it showed over 60,000 items being deleted. I stopped the Secure Empty but I'm sure it ...
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Mac OS X - Problems with file permission into NTFS usb drive
I can read/write files within an NTFS external USB drive.
I have some problems with large files like AVI/MKV stored on an NTFS external drive. Those files appears greyed into Finder and, always using ...
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How to install Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu to an external hard drive from a Mac?
I have Macbook Pro. I have a portable USB hard drive and I want to install
Windows 7
Windows XP
Ubuntu
on that portable hard drive.
Does anybody know how to install all three operating systems ...
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Photoshop, please let go of my hard drive!
For some reason Photoshop is preventing me from ejecting my external hard drives.
None of the drives are set as a scratch disk
No files are even open. This is on a MacBook Pro, Photoshop CS5 and an ...
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How to use external hard disk in both Windows and Mac OS X?
I have one external hard drive (Seagate 320 GB). I have used my hard drive in a Windows XP system and it works fine (Read and write). But when I used it on a Mac, I couldn't write any file on the disk ...
