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How to prevent Mac OS X creating .DS_Store files on non Mac (HFS) Volumes?
Is there a way to prevent Mac OS X creating .DS_Store and other hidden meta-files on foreign volumes like NTFS and FAT?
I share an NTFS partition with data like Thunderird & Firefox's profiles and ...
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distinction between volume and partition (terminology)
What's the definition of, and distinction between, a volume and a partition?
Wikipedia notes that a partition is created before any files or directories are written to disk. But, then, in the next ...
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Install Mac OSX on a partition of a Windows notebook?
Can this be done? Don't care about legal issues just would like to know if possible. I have a 150GB partition on a HP DV6000 Vista machine and was tempted to try...
Note SuperUser does not condone ...
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Partitioning a bootable Flash drive
Is it possible to have a 2 partition Flash drive that looks like the following:
A partition that is bootable to OS X (this will require a GUID partition table)
A second partition formatted either ...
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Can Windows in macOS Boot Camp access an external HDD formatted as Journaled extended?
I currently have a MacBook Pro with an external HDD formatted as journaled extended and use this for my time machine backups.
I'm planning on adding Windows using Boot Camp but was wondering if ...
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VirtualBox running Windows on Mac OS X on its own partition
To try to speed up my Windows VirtualBox in a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X I intend to create a hard disk partition, same as for Boot Camp, and create a partition for Windows there. Would that speed ...
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trying to install windows after ubuntu
Recently I have wiped out my macbook pro and reinstalled ubuntu on it.And now I want to install windows alongside so I can have dual boot.After doing some research online, I have created a partition ...
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How can I fully backup Windows, Linux and various boot partitions of an external drive?
I have an external drive for my 2017 iMac with a Windows-to-go and Linux system installed on it. It took a lot of work to get this set up just the way I needed, and am trying to find a way to make ...
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How to use one external hard drive to back up Windows and Linux as well as macOS with Time Machine?
I have an external hard disk drive I use for all of my backups.
I created an NTFS partition that I backed up Windows 10 to.
Then I created an ext4 partition and backed up Linux Mint to that.
Now, I ...
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How to restore Mac from Windows 8
Recently I ran into a problem (as mentioned here) where I couldn't log into my OS X.
I have Windows 8 installed in a partition, but unfortunately the partition where OS X was installed has been ...
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Using the same storage drive with dual partitions
I'd like to use a dual partition from my ssd (Windows 7 & OS X).
I would also like them both to share my two internal SATA hard drives (which is generally where all my additional files that are ...
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Failed to boot Windows 10 after resizing volume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. ...
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Install Windows to partition from a virtual machine?
I am seeking workarounds to installing windows on an SSD partitioned (sharing with macOS) as the normal routes both are unfortunately unsuccessful on my end: boot camp install results in an ...
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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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How to clone an entire drive to part of another?
I have a triple boot between macOS Sierra, Windows 10, and Linux, on my 500gb ssd inside my laptop. How can I clone all of my partitions onto an external drive? It is 3tb and has an empty 600gb ...
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mac boot, and windows storage on same USB
I have a 64GB usb to install mac OS X on, but it will not use the whole drive so I would like to partition it. I want the other partition to be accessible from pc and mac. To install mac I need to use ...
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Are two partitions with HFS+ and exFAT more efficient or just one with exFAT for storing data?
I use Mac, Windows, and Linux(Ubuntu) computers, and one 1 TB external hard drive. I mainly use Mac, and don't want to use third party drivers. Is it more efficient to:
Use one partition for HFS(Mac ...
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Is it ok to repartition drives after dual booting windows and OS X yosemite?
recently i installed windows 7 along with mac OS X Yosemite(using bootcamp).Now i have two partitions one for mac and one for windows.
Now Can i split the windows partition in to two partitions ...
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partition drive not appearing in explorer
I originally had a 2 terabyte hard drive partitioned as a 256GB OSX partition, and a 1600~ Dynamic disc (shows up as two blocks on disc management)
After i went on disc utility to delete my ...
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Trouble Partition Hard Drive
In my PC I currently have a 1TB hard drive that I am trying to make into three partitions: one for Windows, one for OS X, and one as a storage for movies and Steam games, just to keep them separated. ...
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Is over provisioning on SSD just another partition or unreserved space and can it be alongside a dual boot partition OS setup?
I have a few machines I'd want to dual boot different OSs with but also maximise the lifetime of the SSD fitted to them.
I am aware that over-provisioning can help maximise the life of the SSD as it ...
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Bootcamp Win7 partition does not load
I am running Mac OS X and Bootcamp with Windows 7. I needed to have read/write access to data on Windows partition. Therefore I have created one more partition using Disk Utility.
The resulting ...
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2 Smaller Drives or 1 Large Partitioned for Separate OS
I have found a few questions similar to this, but those are assumed with a single OS and this is a different question. What I am wanting to do is have Windows and OS X on my computer. This is a custom ...
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OSX ghosting - need to reformat HDD
I have an OSX partition that does not take up the whole drive. Somehow, I managed to damage the unallocated space in a way that disk utility does not let me use it even though it is labeled "free ...
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