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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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