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disk-utility

  1. Sciuriware

    Secure formatting takes centuries

    Hello, I am formatting some old 2Tb USB drives by Disk Utility on max. security. Well, it takes more than 24h a piece .... Any idea if this is better than formatting to the minimum and then filling up with trash-text (meaningless data)? ;JOOP!
  2. ThemePro

    Can't Boot up and Disk Utility First Aid Failed

    I have an iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015) El Capitan (10.11.2) and Windows 10 via Bootcamp. This morning after I had finished some work on the Windows side of the machine, I tried to boot up into El Capitan but it silently failed and the machine turned itself off at about the 2 minute point...
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  3. planetf1

    Extending system disk (vmware guest)

    Hi, I'm somewhat of a OS/X newbie. I have El Capitan installed under vmware. I setup a single virtual 60GB disk initially, but hit some space issues when I wanted to install xcode. I'm somewhat family with vmware, linux, windows/linux partitioning, lvm etc. Within vmware I could easily extend...
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