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Can I attach a 12 + 16 pin Mac SSD to an NVMe adaptor, and put that inside a USB enclosure?
I have an SSD drive from an old MacBook Air (A1465) and want to attach it to a 12 + 16 pin to NVMe adaptor, and put that inside a USB enclosure for use as an external hard drive, and to recover the ...
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Migrating from a 2TB MacBook Pro to a 500GB MacBook Air
We don't want to lose any of the files.
My plan is:
Buy an external 2TB SSD.
Copy ~1.6TB of files from the old Mac onto the SSD.
Use migration assistant to transfer the old Mac onto the new one, ...
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Unable to delete 3TB external EFI cold storage from MAC
I have an external WD 3TB , i used it for my hackintosh before, now i just want to delete everything in there and use it for my PC desktop, however it does not let me erase the drive completely.
My ...
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Can I boot from a hard drive which contains a copy of the entire filesystem?
I have a MacBook Air, which has a 120GB SSD. I copied the entire file system to another hard drive by just click-and-dragging the root directory. Is it possible boot from this hard drive? I know I can'...
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Catalina bricked my MacBook Pro
I have a MacBook Pro 2019 13", I tried to update it to the new Catalina 10.15. And the hell begun!
When the update started the screen went completely black, so I thought it needs me to press the ...
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Can SSD Storage from 2016 Macbook Pro be moved to 2019 Macbook Pro?
I have MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) with 1TB drive.
I would like to buy one of the new 2019 Macbook Pros with 256GB and swap the storage. I have seen the video on the 2016 ...
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How to debug the "System" part of my Mac that is taking up space
I am seeing this. I have been running a lot of Node.js data processing scripts to generate data on an external hard drive. I am logging a lot of stuff to the terminal windows that are running those ...
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Can I move the hard disk from one 2006 MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo to another?
I managed to find an identical copy on the second hand market of my 2006 MacBook. If something fails in my current one–as has happened on a couple of occasions—but the hard disk remains healthy, can I ...
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08 MacBook, currently OS 10.7, new drive, do I have to start with 10.5 startup again?
I have an 08 MacBook A1181 currently running Lion 10.7.5. When I installed this drive I had to start with the OEM restore disks and build up from there to 10.7.5. The problem I had at the time is the ...
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Computer hard drive is full and Macbook doesn't always recognize external drive
The issue I'm having is that my computer is out of disk space:
I have roughly 400GB worth of photos and growing. Even if I cleared some space from the hard drive on my Macbook, I wouldn't have enough ...
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Problems with hard drive housed in optical bay of 2011 17" Macbook Pro
So I've heard that 2011 MBPs are inconsistently compatible with 6mb/s hard drives in the optical bay, because the chipset was often 3mb/s. I had a 3mb/s drive in there and it worked like a charm. I ...
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Macbook Pro 15, mid 2014 - SSD external adapter/case
I have a Macbook Pro 15" mid 2014 - A1398 ($1999). It has liquid damage, so it's $1240 to repair = not worth it to repair. I have three questions for you guys..
Is it safe to sell it as it is? I'm ...
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How to read MacBook Air (2013) SSD via PCI card adapter from Windows?
I purchased an adapter which connects my MacBook Air (2013) SSD to PCI-E of motherboard.
However, I was unable to find a proper way to read it, even with MacDrive.
What I want to do is back up the ...
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Recover files from fried Macbook - receive access denied
I have a friend that has a Macbook that no longer works, however the hard drive is still functioning properly. I took the hard drive out of the laptop and installed it into a desktop PC, and then ...
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Why have multiple PNG files been transformed to glitches on the external hard drive?
Pictures have been made and edited using Adobe Photoshop and saved as PNG on a MacBook
If the hard drive of the PC is almost full the edited pictures will be copied to an external hard drive in order ...
