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How can I add a new partition to my HD without reformatting?
I have a 640GB external HD that has one partition formatted as HFS+. It's attached to a machine running OSX 10.6.6. Now I want to split some of the HD's free space into a new FAT32 partition, without ...
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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 Disk constantly reading/writing and not ejecting
I have a LaCie USB disk that when attached to my MacBook Pro does not stop reading or writing. It makes noise all the time, even when I don't do anything with it. The drive won't eject normally (i.e. ...
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How to prevent spotlight from searching external hard drives
I have an external hard drive connected to my Macbook Pro that I always leave on. When I use spotlight to search for something, it always searches this drive. I don't want it to do this because ...
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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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How to share an external USB drive over network in OS X?
I have an external USB drive mounted on my Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" box. I want to share a folder on this volume to another OS X computer over LAN. How is it possbile? If I simply enable the built-...
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Annoying "Save as" behavior in Snow Leopard
One of the tweaks in Snow Leopard that I really like is the way my external drive, used only for Time Machine backups, stays suspended unless a Time Machine backup is in progress.
Previously under ...
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