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Is it safe to clone Win 10 partition created in OS X Boot camp to a new drive?
I'm using a Mac Pro (2019) with the newest OS X available. I've created a Win 10 partition via Boot camp on the internal SSD. Now I want to transfer this OS to an external SSD. I'm planning to use ...
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ZFS Pool on internal ssd partition disappears after reboot, pre-existing partition (whatever it is) pops up instead
Mojave 10.14.6, OpenZFS installed with brew (OpenZFS on OS X 1.9.4 Mojave.pkg)
By "disappears" here I don't mean "it's not imported", I mean actually, really disappears (no output ...
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Remove "virtual" volumes from macOS Catalina after Big Sur beta?
I have played around with macOS Big Sur for a few weeks but I decided to downgrade to Catalina. Big Sur handles volumes a bit differently and creates a virtual volume - Data volume. The interesting ...
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Cloning HDD to SSD without Free Space
I'm partitioning my 1TB SSD to allow me install Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and Catalina on the same drive. I'd like all my files to be on the Catalina partition, apart from specific software which only ...
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Storage space "disappeared" on internal SSD of MacBook Air
After letting the FreeBSD installer to "automatically create an EFI partition" on my MacBook Air, there seems to be some problem with my internal SSD:
192:~ sunqingyao$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (...
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Missing SSD partition after reboot - shows unformatted
EDITED to clarify commenter's question.
This just happened to 2 different Mac Mini systems that I managed.
After reboot, got the flashing folder (no startup disk found). Opt-boot showed nothing. ...
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Can't format two partitions into a single one
I've recently bought a macbook pro with 512gb ssd that are divided into 2 drives:
These two partitions are both formatted as OS X Extended Journaled:
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When i try to merge them into a single ...
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Cannot resize partition on HFS+ drive using disk utility
I purchased a 2 TB SSD and cloned everything from my old 1 TB hard drive. But now I keep getting "Your startup disk is full" errors. So I removed the hard drive and connected it to my other computer. ...
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Partitioning issue after HDD to SSD sector copy and swap in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Recently decided to replace my nearly full 500GB hard disk drive with a 1TB SSD to breathe some new life into my mid-2010 MacBook Pro.
I used a “toaster”-style drive cloner (Dyconn Dubbler) to do a ...
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MacOS - creating continous space for partitioning
I have 80 GB free space, but disk utility only shows about 14 GB available for partitioning.
My understanding is that this could get fixed by defragging the disk. But MacOS has no defrag-tools and the ...
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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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mac osx copy bootable startvolume works but keeps filesystem
He there,
i have a macbook air with one ssd hdd that is unfortunetly formatted as journal extended case sensitive.
so i have an external hdd where i copied my whole startvolume bootable with the ...
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What is the best way to image MacBook Pro hard drive?
I am thinking about upgrading my mid-2012 MacBook Pro by replacing its HD with an SSD. However, I have four partitions (2-3 for Mac OS X, the rest for windows). So, I was wondering: what is the best ...
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Delete OSX partition and join remainder to Windows 7 partition
I have an iMac 27" with a SSD that has OSX installed on it. I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 partition. I found myself using Windows 7 more then OSX because I have a PC at work so I would like to ...
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Installing different OS'es into SSD partitions
Beginning of this week I took delivery of a new 27" iMac (fitted with a 250GB Solid State Drive in addition to the 1TB Optical drive), which came with Snow Leopard installed. Unfortunately, instead of ...
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