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Create Mac partition in Windows
On my Windows server machine I have a 1TB drive I want to partition down the middle, one half NTFS and the other HFS+. I don't necessarily need to be able to write or even read the HFS+ partition from ...
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How to create HFS+ partition on Windows 7 machine
I'm running Windows 7 and I would like to partition my D: volume and make it HFS+, but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this.
Has anyone done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS ...
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How to repair HFS+ extended attributes file?
Is there any tool able to repair/rebuild extended attributes file?
For now I tried fsck_hfs from Mac OS X 10.6.3 Retail DVD, fsck.hfsplus from GParted 0.5.2 livecd and Paragon Partition Manager 11. ...
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If I burn a dvd with files on mac, is it going to be readable on another systems?
I don't want to burn a DVD with files that is only going to be read by newer Windows versions, and not by a Linux box.
Can I trust on Mac's bultin DVD recorder in Finder in creating fully compatible ...
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Why are Mac OS X alias files so large?
On Mac OS X, I have two aliases in my Applications folder, each points to another folder. They are 1 MB each. Why so large?
I've found other sources on the Internet to say that yes, alias files can ...
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What characters are forbidden in OS X filenames?
Is there a list of characters which are not allowed in filenames and paths on OS X?
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Case sensitive folder names in OS X
I have two folders on a Tomcat server:
linkredirect
LINKredirect
(I know it is bad practice to use upper case, but it is out of my control)
Both directories are hosted on the server and there ...
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Change owner of folder on read-only drive in Ubuntu
My IMac died (power supply issue, out of warranty) and I removed the HDD so I could recover some files. I'm trying to copy files from my Desktop folder on the Mac HDD using Ubuntu 10.04 (running from ...
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How to mount a mobile hard drive of Mac OS to windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to read and write Mac drives on Windows
My friend has a 500G mobile hard drive which he used with his Mac. Part of the drive is used to install a Windows system.
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Why has my Mac been running fsck_hfs for two days now?
I first noticed that fsck_hfs was running, taking up 50-75% of a CPU, yesterday. It continues to run today.
ps shows that it is doing /sbin/fsck_hfs -f -n -x -E /dev/disk3. Only problem: I don’t ...
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Why do disk images hosted on a read-only HFS+ partition behave differently?
I have come across the following phenomenon and would like to know how leaky Windows' file system abstraction is or if there's something else involved.
I partitioned the hard disk of my MacBook Pro ...
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Corrupted files, hard drive test?
I'm currently on a macbook with a 1TB external hard drive connected trough a USB hub wich is connected on my macbook. The problem is, my disk, wich is partitioned in 2 (one HFS+ and one NTFS) keeps ...
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How can I find out what's on a certain block in an HFS+ formatted drive?
I've got a hard disk that has damaged blocks. I'm now copying it using ddrescue to an external drive.
I've got a file with the list of the damaged blocks, how can I find out which files are located ...
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On a Mac, how can I find all files on a NTFS partition that have the same name, given case *in*sensitivity?
Here's the deal, I have a huge mess of files on an external drive that is formatted as NTFS. I wish to copy all of these files onto my MacBook Pro.
NTFS, like sane filesystems, is case sensitive. HFS ...
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What are 'damaged files' on external hard drive (HFS format for OS X)?
I have an external HD formatted to default HFS (Mac OS Extended - Journaled) and very once and a while I get a folder called DamagedFiles in the root of the volume. The folder contains a collection ...
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How can I format a partition as HFS on a PC?
For various unimportant reasons, I want to format a partition using MacOS's native HFS filesystem.
Is there any software that will let me do this on a PC, without connecting the hard drive directly ...
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer mounting an external USB drive
I have a 1TB generic external hard drive containing a single HFS partition. I originally formatted this using Disk Utility and it worked fine. Now, for some reason, it's not auto-mounting when I start ...
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PowerPC boot CD that can read NTFS partitions
I am looking for a boot CD that will boot a power PC (linux, bsd, OSX) and allow read/write access to HFS+ and NTFS partitions. What is the best option?
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How do I look at disk journals under OS X?
About 2000 files just turned up missing on my Mac, with no clues as to where they went or how they were deleted. I have disk journaling enabled, so I'd like to look at the journals. Hopefully, ...
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Read OS X partition from Windows 7
I have installed Windows 7 onto my Macbook using Boot Camp, but i find the whole experience very quiet seeing I cannot access my music that resides on the OS X partition. Is there software out there ...
