Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.
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Unable to mount or fix my Apple Raid mirrored volume
I have 2 identical external 2T disks, mirrored using diskutility.
Yesterday I realised that this volume was not mounted.
I started diskutility to see what was going on and it came up as a blank screen....
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Why does my exFAT external disk show errors on Windows and corrupt PDF files after formatting on macOS?
I partitioned an external disk as exFAT on my Mac using diskutil and the following commands:
diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk force disk2
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1024 count=1024
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Two separate Time Machine backups on single HFS+ drive?
I have been keeping Time Machine backups for two separate MacBooks on a single external hard drive by having two APFS volumes on the single APFS-formatted drive. No problems there. Both MacBooks ask ...
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Photos transfer from mac-book air to a hard disk
I have 7800 Photos on my photos of mac-book air, i need to transfer all the 7800 photos to a external harddisk. I created a separate folder with all the 7800 photos on the desktop now when i try to ...
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500 GB external hard drive broken after Boot Camp
I am running macOS 10.13.6 on a Mac mini 2011 and I decided to get Windows 8 using Boot Camp. The installation went well, but I couldn't switch back to macOS. On a different question, I got advice and ...
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Not able to access 500 GB space from my external drive
I have a 1.5 TB WD Elements hard drive. There were two containers with 500 GB space and 250 GB space respectively. I wanted to delete both of them and merge them in my 750 GB APFS volume.
I was able ...
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Macbook Air 2013 - 256GB SSD shows as 1.2GB in disk utility
I have "inherited" a 2013 MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD. The machine was formerly used with Windows 10 but I threw that out, along with the MacOS, and tried to install various versions of ...
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Diskutil partitionDisk Error: A writable disk is required (-69772)
I'm trying to format an external disk (identified as /dev/disk4) using diskutil partitionDisk on macOS. However, I'm encountering the following error:
Error creating partition map: A writable disk is ...
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"Device not configured" after external HD improperly unmounted
I accidently unplugged my external HD before the eject was done :-/
/Volumes/Red is still there and can't be deleted.
The HD still mounts but as /Volumes/Red 1.
How can I remove /Volumes/Red?
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Moving files to a new volume; keeping same Time Machine backup
My desktop (iMac) system includes the internal SSD and an external storage disk; call it 'A'. Both are backed up with Time Machine on another external drive, 'B'. Now, 'A' is getting full. I want to ...
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Overcome file recovery on Time Machine: error -36
I'm helping a friend who has suffered a big loss of data. She keeps some Time Machine snapshots on an external drive but when we try to recover a file we get an error message "...some data can't ...
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Third-party backup SSD not appearing
I've been using a third-party (LaCie) SSD for Time Machine backups ever since the HD in my Time Capsule router stopped working. (The SSD is plugged into the Time Capsule which also is my router.)
But ...
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27" iMac 5k VDH002, won't mount other disks
2015 27" iMac 5k with SDD. Diagnostic says "VDH002 issue with storage device" and it won't boot from the internal drive any more. Recovery can't mount any other disks to reinstall.
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Need assistance installing Windows 10 64bit on a late 2009 IMac 27in with a non functional optical drive
So far I have attempted the answer/instruction to this question.
I also attempted to UEFI boot install windows 10 from start up manager by creating a ExFAT Flash Drive with the contents of a mounted ...
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Following instructions to manually install Windows by manually creating Bootcamp partition during start up it doesn’t show up
I’m in the process of putting windows 7 on my late 2009 iMac. I’ve been working on this for a few days now. I couldn’t just use the normal Bootcamp assistant because of hardware issues and ended up ...
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