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disk failure

  1. Boneheadxan

    Disk Mounting Error with 8TB SSD

    Hey guys, I recently bought a Samsung 8TB QVO drive for hosting sound design and sample libraries for my audio work. The drive had been working fine for the past couple of weeks on my 16" M1 Max running Monterey. Unfortunately, the drive just won't mount anymore. It shows as greyed out in Disk...
  2. A

    Restarted while macOS catalina was installing

    I had restarted while the macOS catalina was installing and now my macintosh HD disk is gone and I cannot startup my computer to the login homescreen. When I go to disk utility there is only OS X Base system and 251 GB APPLE SSD. Did I completely break my macbook pro? What do I do to return it...
    • azriela
    • Thread
    • disk doctor disk failure emergency services start up
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  3. mac65

    Can I force a USB disk device to reconnect, maybe with a modified kext?

    I post this here because there may be some USB device driver hackers here who might know. I am working on a tool to read hard disks that have defective sectors. Most drives not only take a long time to respond once they encounter a bad sector, they also eventually disconnect themselves, not...
  4. S

    Macbook Air 2015 - Running slowly, freezing, kernel_task high usage

    Hello. 2 days ago my Macbook Air got very slowly and started to freezing when i want to open any of apps. I must to hold power button for 5-10 seconds for turn on my Macbook, when i hold the button for less than 5 seconds, I just hear the sound of starting Macbook and nothing after this. My...
    • Swagmen9
    • Thread
    • disk failure freezing high cpu usage slowly
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: MacBook Air
  5. Brawlzapper

    I think my MacBook Air SSD is dead. Help me.

    My MacBook Air SSD died, or at least I believe it did. I was using my MacBook air (mid 2013) and all of a sudden my Mac freezes, I didn’t know what to do so I just pressed the power button and my Mac restarted with a folder with a question mark. After googling the issue, I tried resetting...
  6. M

    iMac HDD clicking

    Hi there My iMac's HDD just started clicking slowly. As I wanted to restart and do a backup it started clicking and now it is not recognisable at all. I cannot restart it in target mode either. I can however start my iMac from external drive obviously and when I do so the HDD is not there at...
    • moey2k2001
    • Thread
    • disc recovery disk failure hdd failure imac
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: iMac
  7. MrAverigeUser

    A very good Video about ribbon cable issues….

    Instead of posting the url again and again for people having issues with it, I will post this here with the tags needed to automatically find it. Hope this is ok for the moderators. If not, just delete the Thread. (Disclaimer: I am neither the author of the video nor someone near to him. I just...
    • MrAverigeUser
    • Thread
    • beachball disk failure hdd failure hdd issues mbp mbp unstable ribbon cable ssd failure ssd issues
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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