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disk utilty

  1. Change Agent

    ASRDataVolume I see 3 of them and a snapshot, is this normal?

    See enclosed pic. Is this normal? Why are they there? There are 3 ASRDataVolume ones, I numbered them. And there is the snapshot (green) on my volume holding the OS. Why is it there? Any help appreciated.
  2. K

    Beware, Disk images might look damaged

    I have several disk images ie .dmg files on my mac where I keep documents that I need to have secure. They are secured with a password. Now two weeks on on my new 16" on monterey I can't open a certain disk image. Some works and some wont open directly from finder. Instead of password prompt I...
  3. blackxacto

    Why do I have 21 snapshots in Disk Utility?

    Big Sur 11.4, 19,1 iMac: Booting in Internet Recovery mode and repairing my main SSD data, why am I keeping 21 snapshots of my main SSD? Wouldn’t 10 be suffiecient? Why not 5?
  4. dood_son

    Internal SSD not showing while booted from external drive

    Hello all, FACTS: I am trying to clone an external volume (located on a USB 3,5" 500GB HDD SATA drive) to an internal SSD flash drive of my A1398 15" Macbook Pro (mid-2014, 2.8 GHz i7, dedicated graphics). The problem that I am getting is that once booted from the external volume (a CCC clone...
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    • cloning disk utilty disk0s2 drive el capitan external internal invisible device mojave ssd
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  5. Q

    Verifying a Disk Image Is Successfully Ejected

    I recently upgraded from Lion to High Sierra and one thing that's bugging me is that Disk Utility is no longer logging (apparently as of El Capitan if I'm not mistaken). It is very important to me to get back the "Show Log" option. Can I? Otherwise, if that's not possible, I really need to...
  6. bb426

    iMac G3 help!!

    Here’s my problem: while booted into OS X Tiger install disk (1/4), I cannot get Disk Utility to successfully recognize the new SSD I installed. It hangs with a spinning wheel. At times, it might display the manufacturer name of the SSD (OWC Mercury), but hangs still. I have to power the iMac...
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    • Thread
    • disk utilty format imac g3 installation os 9 ssd tiger
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  7. savinorum

    Problem mounting external HD

    hi! i've been having some troubles as of today with one of my external HDs. it's a 1TB LG External HDD HXD7. it was originally mounted on a Windows PC so it used NTFS. i've been running it with Tuxera NTFS with exceptional, really rare problems. most of the time it worked fine. but today when i...
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