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What is the safe way to scan external drive for viruses
I have an external drive which contains lots of important files and MacOS time machine backup. I had to plug it to a computer in our school and my drive is infected by viruses.
Now I'm worrying about ...
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Don want to use safe remove EX HDD in MAC OS...
I am using iMac with OS 10.6.8. Every time when I eject my External HDD I have to eject from finder. I want to use like Plug n Play just like in windows no need to give safe remove. If there is any ...
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Can't see external hard drive on Mac or PC
As mentioned in the title, I can't see my external hard drive on Mac finder and PC. I checked on Mac disk utility and it does appear over there.
I thought about trying to repair it but i'm afraid i'...
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New LaCie drive fails to mount on Mac OSX 10.8
I have a new LaCie d2 Quadra 4 TB external harddrive.
When I connect it to my Macbook pro with Firewire 800 cable (provided), the drive beeps about 20 times, then I get "The disk you inserted was ...
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Using Mac's Time Machine for an external drive connected only some of the time
I have just purchased a 1TB external hard drive to use as my Time Machine capsule.
I will not have it connected all of the time, I will probably only connect it every month or so.
Is there any way ...
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How to hide Eject Button in Mac OS X for the permanent external drive like JetDrive
How can I hide the Eject Button for a certain external drive in the Mac OS X?
Because usually the external drive like JetDrive or StorEdge, does not need to be removed (I want to extend the disk ...
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External HDD is not working on Mac notebook
I have this extenal HDD drive that connects to computer via cable with blue USB port (USB 3.0).
It's working perfectly fine with my new ASUS laptop, but it's not working with an old MacBook (OS X 10....
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Unable to create disk image using disk utility (Input/output error)
I want to create a disk image of source 100.03 GB Ext Hard Disk Media on destination 5TB Lacie ST5000DX000-1H2170 there is greater than 1TB remaining on the destination disk. The Disk Utility progress ...
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Seagate External Drive works on PC but not mac, sometimes
I've having some trouble with my Seagate USB External hard drive. It's formatted FAT32 and I use it primarily on my Mac (OSX Mavericks)
Every now and then (it's happened twice now), It would stop ...
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external usb (backup) hard drive: is power down or sleep more harmful
I have an external usb hard drive on which I clone my mac's hard drive. I have it on a clock timer. It turns on about 30 min. before the backup process starts and turns off roughly 30 min. after the ...
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Trying to boot OS X snow leopard from external hard drive, but not showing up as a startup disk
As the title says, I'm trying to boot from an external hard drive, but for whatever reason it isn't showing up under System Preferences>Startup Disk. I saved about 211 GB of data onto my external hard ...
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1Tb disk formatted on Linux won't mount on windows nor mac
I have an external HD (western digital) with 1Tb. I use Linux but I wanted to reserve a cross platform partition on the disk. I decided to create two partitions and used the "disks" application to do ...
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Can't get rsync to sync two external harddrives
I'm trying to use rsync to copy files from one external HDD to another external HDD.
I use the following commands
rsync -rv --exclude=.DS_Store ~/Volumes/Backed /Volumes/Hero
where Backed is the ...
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Sharing external USB drive via Mac Mini with server.app randomly disconnecting
I've got a Mac mini running server and a few people connecting. This is working fine and no issues so far. I bought a sharkoon USB external 5 bay RAID box and connected to the server and setup shares. ...
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How do I make a external drive appear as an internal drive?
I'm running OSX Mountain Lion, and have a firewire drive hooked up for storage. I would like to make it appear as if it's an internal drive as my online syncing software - sugarsync - doesn't allow ...
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