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  1. benji888

    PCIe SSD Stuck “deleting volume”

    I took a PCIe SSD out of a late 2013 iMac I put in an OWC external case to use with my Mac mini M2, (its an Aura Pro X2 480GB), however I forgot to erase it before taking it out of the iMac, now it won’t mount, so I’m trying to erase but it’s stuck “deleting volume”, I don’t think it’s working...
  2. Giuanniello

    How to create a RAID1 array?

    I have two LaCie 2Big disks, I just swapped the drives into a NAS and I'd like to use the 2x4TB WD RED for my photo archive in one of the two cases but I can't manage to make the LaCie RAID app to work (it has to install extensions that somehow I can't make to get installed), if I simply use...
  3. J

    HELP PLEASE! iMac mid-2011 not booting

    Hello, so my Mom had an iMac mid-2011 that she was gonna give to my sister. Problem is she tried to format it (after an update to Sierra as I understand it). She was following some websites instructions and now it only boots to disc recovery. I tried internet recovery but from my...
    • JRDad
    • Thread
    • diskutil diskutility help macos
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: iMac
  4. F23

    How to save DVD video to Mac?

    I have an M1 Mac Mini and a SuperDrive. I want to save the videos from the DVD to my Mac. Do I need special software? I am using disk utility to make a disk image but I'm not sure if that works. I want to make a copy of the videos for later playback and keep them on my internal mac storage as...
    • F23
    • Thread
    • disc diskutility dvd mac macmini superdrive
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Mac mini
  5. Maurício Esquiavoi

    MacBook Pro prohibited

    Hi there, I have one MacBook Pro mid 2010, first owner, last year it was upgraded, 500 ssd and 16ddr3. I don’t understand what happened, last week I was working and went to make some lunch and when I back the monitor was grey and prohibited. I read here in the forum, videos on YouTube how to...
  6. X

    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    Hello all, I have a 4TB drive that I have been using for about one year and half. It worked fine until this morning, when I unplugged it after selecting Force Eject and plugged it in again, it shows "The dish you inserted was not readable by this computer". Both my macbook and iMac indicated...
  7. satellitea100

    Help with MBP 2016 hangs on boot, Macintosh HD flickers.

    I have the following problem: My 2016 Macbook Pro (El Capitan) hangs on boot. The progress bar loads to near completion, after that it stops. The laptop heats up and eventually shuts down. What I need to do: Recover important data from the partition, then reinstall. No time machine saves are...
  8. D.Anki

    something wrong with disk utility... please help

    this following screen shot is of my disk utility screen after i made a partition and decided to delete it later, but couldn't, so i found a way using terminal with some commands and it worked. now look what happened, please help i only have 2 gb left to work with.
    • D.Anki
    • Thread
    • 1.10.11 apple disk utility diskutility fix help help needed mac macboook pro
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  9. MacBook Air1111

    PLEASE HELP

    I tried to factory’s reset by erasing all data in “Macintosh HD” then I tried to reinstall Mac OS but OS X Base System is a locked disk. And the only disks in my disk utility are APPLE SSD a few numbers and letters then Media and OS X base system! I don’t know what to do
  10. Johnrestrict

    Mac won't boot after mac shutting down during instlation

    hi my mac shut down during instlation and I keeps displaying this message that I have posted a photo of. I was advised to hold down Up,cmd, alt, shift, p, r to take me into macOS utilities. I then go onto disk utility and use first aid to see if there is any problems. I then click reinstall...
  11. L

    How to install OS with keyboard

    I'm needing to wipe my computer and basically get it ready to sell, and so I've managed to wipe the disc. However I've had to do so with the keyboard as my tap or click won't work (seems to be a common issue in Disk Utility). Now I'm trying to reinstall OS X, and I make it to the window where I...
    • Lschneds
    • Thread
    • diskutility install macbook trackpad
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  12. s5229

    MacBook Air can't install OS X *Need Expert Help*

    I have been working on this for 2 days now with 0 success. I have a first addition Macbook Air model A1237 that came with no hard drive due to it being donated from a college. I have no other working Macs to pull and image or backup from. I purchased a Zheino 128GB SSD and have successfully...
    • s5229
    • Thread
    • diskutility macbook air osx intaller ssd install troubleshooting
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  13. X

    Disk Utility reporting wrong used space

    Hi all, Last week I contacted Apple about this very same issue and after 30mins of looking around, we decided to do a clean install of El Capitan and it did seem to fix the issue. Now after a few days of usage, it is back. Here is the issue: Whenever I format any drive/memory card in FAT or...
  14. Giuanniello

    Can't format a hard drive

    So, long story short, I have a 750GB HD off a MacBookPro, when I plug it on my ElCapitan MBPro via external dock it doesn't appear in the finder, after a while I get the warning the disk needs to be formatted but the initialization through DiskUtility fails; I did try on another computer with...
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