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  1. PeterJP

    Enlarging Time Machine space

    Hi, I have an MPB13 with a 256GB SSD that I'm backing up to an external drive and to a Linux server using Time Machine. The server used to have just a bit more space than the SSD, around 270GB. I just increased that space to 480GB. I wiped the old backup (still have that historical data on the...
  2. tarikbatal

    Bootup Failed!

    Hi Guys, Ive tried booting in safe mode, verbose mode, repairing the disk (first aid) within disk utility and nothing. It used to be that the computer would get to the end of the startup progress bar and then shut down. Now it's opening the terminal upon every start and nothing seems to be...
    • tarikbatal
    • Thread
    • bootup problem disk utility failed hard drive hard disk failure osx repair safe mode verbose mode
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  3. DKennedy2

    My USB drive shows up in Disk Utility but isn't mounting

    [EDIT: I'm no longer having this problem. I erased the USB drive in Disk Utility, which caused it to mount. However, now it's not showing up on the Windows laptop I'm using, which seems like a problem outside the scope of this forum. I may just transfer my files another way. Thanks to those who...
  4. jgraham0513

    No hard drive showing in disk utility...can't reinstall OS X

    About a week and a half ago, my computer froze and I restarted it and it would only reboot halfway. I then tried several different options in recovery mode (command+R) and nothing worked. I finally just erased the disk memory and was able to reinstall OS X, I lost all my files but the laptop was...
  5. A

    Can not format or erase hard drive using disk utility

    I was having boot issues where I couldn't boot into OSX. Thought the hard drive was bad. So I installed OSX on a flash drive, booted with that drive and used Diskwarrior to save my files. I purchased a new hard drive and tried 100 different times to format the drive using disk utility. It would...
    • airtas
    • Thread
    • disk utility disk warrior format hard disk hard drive cable osx sata cable
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  6. Shawzborne

    [Disk Utility] Apple Sparse Disk Image Mounted?

    Hi Everyone, What is this? I currently have no DMGs or any other devices mounted. Thank-you, Shawn
  7. matthiastj

    iMac hard drive can't be read

    So before this gets deleted since it looks like other threads, please read into the present issues because I have searched everywhere for the answer to this. It's an iMac A1224 and I get the flashing folder/question mark on startup. When I booted from an install drive and tried to find the hard...
    • matthiastj
    • Thread
    • disk utility flashing folder imac a1224 internal hdd media question mark
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iMac
  8. B

    Erase Free Space frozen

    So I'm using the Disk Utility to erase free space on my Macbook (running Mavericks). I had 77GB available on my 750GB drive before I started this. It got about 80% through (using the 3-pass version) and then seemingly froze on "creating secondary temp file"--and my available space had plummeted...
  9. jgelin

    Resolved Resizing Partition, can't use free space?

    Hello I am currently trying to make the partition Odin which is at 2TB to fill the entire 4TB disk and its free space, which resulted from me erasing its original second one. However, it does not seem that I am able to expand the partition so that it is taking up the 4TB because dragging on the...
  10. G

    Start Up Issues

    Hi, My macbook pro has been acting up. It will allow me to log in, but will fail and shut down halfway through logging in. Single user mode (trying to use fsck -fy) showed that "The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Disk utility & disk verification is being a tad vague. It...
    • GinaHay
    • Thread
    • disk utility exit code 8 fsck good but won't boot macbook pro start-up
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  11. fatttire

    Disk Utility won't let me create a CD/DVD disk image larger than 1.5GB

    I'm trying to create a 6GB Cd/dvd disk image on disk utility. However, when it is created, it always shows up as having 1.5GB of space. Anyone know why this happens and how I can fix it?
  12. D

    Can't delete a partition in Disk Utility.

    I tried to put a clean install of OS 10.12 on my Mac. I did this by making another partition in DU, then installing OS 10.12 on it using the installer you can find download on the App Store, planning to delete the original partition. But, for some reason, in Disk Utility, I can't seem to delete...
    • dannymout
    • Thread
    • disk utility mac partitions
    • Replies: 48
    • Forum: macOS
  13. A

    Can't Use MacBook Pro - boots into the recovery partition

    So I recently used the disk utility to erase my hard drives as they were full and were slowing down my Mac by A LOT Now whenever I try to turn my Macbook Pro on, I am led to the recovery page even without pressing cmd+R. When I try to reinstall the OS, after I'm prompted to enter my apple ID it...
  14. T

    I can't boot into windows after having resized my mac partition

    any help would be greatly appreciated diskutil list sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0 MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
  15. H

    Disk Utility Alternative for OS X

    Hi everyone Does anyone know of a good 3rd party disk utility for OS X ? The original disk utility doesn't always fix my hdd issues, but when I plug it into a Windows PC it fixes it. The new El Captain Disk Utility is pathetic! Any suggestions will be appreciated.
  16. M

    Hard disk problems

    I don't really know the best site for posting this, but i thought i'd try my luck here. I have just got a new external hard disk, the Seagate expansion, and i am trying to format it to work on my mac. I was told that i had to erase the disk and format it to OS X Extended (Journal) with the Disk...
  17. saguerra

    HELP! Windows has damaged Macintosh HD

    Hi folks, I really need some expertise on this one! I had OS X El Capitan and Windows 10 (bootcamp) installed on my MacBook Pro. Today i tried to boot Windows, and a screen appeared saying it couldn't boot, so i used windows 10 installation disk to "Fix Startup Problems". After it supposedly...
  18. rootdev

    Second hand PPC G5 without Disk Utility?

    Hello. Weird case. I have purchased a second hand power PC Mac G5 but don't have the Disk Utility installed. I wanted to know if it's possible to install this utility. I think could be a permissions problem also. If nothing works, I want to reinstall Leopard. What version is needed? The...
  19. Computers!

    Rename FAT partitions on SSD and now it wont mount

    Hello!, So I renamed my a third FAT partition, on my internal SSD drive from "Untitled" to something more professional (because I have clients that work over my shoulder). The partition was intended to be used for bootcamp. I ended up temporarily having to put some files on it. After renaming...
  20. C

    Help needed, partitioning an external RAID drive for Windows (El Capitan)

    Hi, new member here, So I have recently purchased a LaCie Big2 12tb HDD with RAID. This is to go with my iMac that has a Bootcamp Windows partition generally used for playing games. What I want to do is use the LaCie drive in a RAID 1 configuration for the OSX partition. I then want to create...
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