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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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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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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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Why does OS X insist on spinning up all external drives when loading a file from the local drive?
Why does OS X insist on spinning up all the attached external drives (firewire, usb) when loading a file from the local (internal) drive?
It's driving me insane that I have to wait for 3 attached ...
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