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Time Machine backup folder getting twice as big on other hdd?
So i have an old 1TB HDD for my Time Machine backups. Its nearly full (950gb used) and now i decided to move to a bigger HDD (i buyed a 5TB drive, but made partitions to split it to 2TB and 3TB, the ...
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Windows 10 to go on partition of external usb drive
I have an external drive with a free partition and all I want is creating a "windows 10 to go" on it so I can boot on this partition to run a live version of windows 10. Nonetheless, I only found ...
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OS X external disk eXfat disappear
I have a problem with the external drive formatted in exFAT.
When using the os x sierra drive is self unmounted and disappeared partition eXfat.
After reconnecting I had the message "disk can not be ...
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Cloning Raspberry Pi Image to External Hard Drive on Mac
Hi I'm looking to clone my 64gb microSD card (formatted as FAT32) for a Raspberry Pi to an external hard drive. I have the microSD inserted to my Mac and is /dev/disk2. I have the external hard drive ...
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OSX refuses to create a partition on my 4TB external, despite free space
I have a 4TB HGST external Hard Drive. The first partition is for backing up my Windows system, which is 3.5TB, and there is ~500GB "free space" to let OSX create it's own HFS+ partition for Time ...
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Create Compressed Back Up Image Mac Mavericks
I have a 3TB external drive, that for some reason is partitioned as a single Master Boot Record partition. Seagate, go figure.
I'm running a 1TB Mac with 10.9.4 and about 380GB used space. My ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Partition read/writeable USB drive between Mac OSX and Ubuntu
I am attempting to transfer a 6.1 GB file between a Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and a Mac OSX 10.6. As the file size is over 4GB I can't use Fat32 and I cant seem to format the USB drive to NTFS in either OS. ...
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