external hard drive

I started a conversion to APFS for my time machine backup, an external Seagate Backup Plus, about 45 minutes ago. It's still stuck on the last step, "reporting pre-conversion statistics." I know converting an SSD should only take a minute or two, but I wasn't sure about normal HD's. How...

Hi all, I have had some issues with my refurb mid 2012 MBP beginning about a year after I purchased it. Wound up replacing (upgrading) the memory due to the 3 beeps issue in late 2015. Replaced it again under warranty this past November due to the same issues and the machine has been ok since...

Frequently when I call it a night, I unmount my external USB drive, turn it off and put my MBP to sleep. Frequently I find that my USB hard drive when turned back on does not mount and sometimes I can see it in Disk Utility and sometimes not. When I can see it if I select the drive and hit the...

With help from a user here, I was able to finally achieve an installation of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on my Late 2007 MacBook 13" White. I followed their instructions which happened to be the same as the instructions within MLPostFactor V. 0.3 and even followed along a YouTube video because it did...

I have a 2005 Mac Mini & iMac, both using iOS 10.5. I can't find my monitor adapter to hook the mini up to the ViewSonic monitor I used to use with it and I was wondering if I can just get it to show up on the desktop of the iMac as an external drive. I've hooked it up by usb and firewire but...

Hello! I'm planning to buy new external hard drive for Time Machine. I've heard some stories how even freshly bought computer might have spyware. Don't know if it applies to external hard drive too. 1) Is there any way to check if it is clean (Malwarebytes only scans for installed malicious...

Hi. I've got an external hard drive (Toshiba) that I've been using for storage for maybe two years now. It's been working perfectly and I've got it on HFS+. As of today I've been unable to use it with my iMac (2015, 27"). I cannot browse it as it doesn't show up in Finder etc, although I can...

I have an external hard drive that I formatted NTFS through the Paragon software so that it can read/write on both a Mac and PC. I can find the EHD in disk utility but it is grayed out. I want to be able to access the EHD from my Mac but cannot get the drive to mount. I've tried: - mounting...

I am desperately trying to get my MacBook Air to allow me to use a brand new external hard drive (thus the title My Passport Problem). When I try to open the installer JPNLanguagePack Installer.pkg I get the following message: JPNLanguagePack Installer.pkg can't be opened because it is from an...

Hey guys and gals, So I installed PB4 of Sierra this morning (Macbook Air 2012) but now I can't get one of my external hard drives to work. When I connect my Seagate 500GB Slim (which I use for TM backups), Sierra recognises it no problem. However, when I connect my Seagate 2TB Backup Plus...

Hey there, I am new to scripting but have done it before to copy folders from my external hard drive to folder on my computer but forgot how I did it, now my needs slightly changed. I have two types of external hard drives, one for MOVIES with each folder containing a jpeg images that...

Hey guys! I run my time machine once a month to back up my data. And I have Google Photos Backup in the cloud. At the end of each year I also export my iPhoto (yes, I have an old Mac)into external hard drive. However I noticed that once I transfer my iPhoto library onto the external hard drive...

So I have a 1TB external hard drive from Seagate. It has always worked great with my macbook air, but for the past few months it has been harder to connect it (Had to plug it in a few times before it connected, sometimes I had to restart the computer a few times before it would work). The last...

I'm looking to add an external RAID1 array to my iMac for some peace of mind. I need an absolute bare minimum of 3 TB (so 2 x 3 TB), but at least 4 TB is what I am really looking for. More would of course be nice but it seems that drive prices increase pretty rapidly past 4 TB per drive (even...

Dear Mac experts. I have a problem that I can't solve. Please help. 1. My setup: iMac 27" 4GHz quad. core i7 (two weeks old) + OS El Capitan + LaCie 6Tbyte external HD. 2. My problem: Two weeks ago I got my new IMac. Used migration assistant to move all files from my MBP to the new iMac...

I have a MACbook Pro. It's been infected with a virus. I want to back it up but will the virus affect my external hard drive? What should I do? Please advise.

Hello, I'm sure there is something I am not doing right but not sure what exactly... I have no problem moving files (i.e. copying) from my Mac desktop to my LaCie external hard drive, but once they are on the external hard drive, I cannot move them around on the finder screen for the external...

Help! My Macbook Pro was restored to factory settings at the Apple Store as it had a few problems. This was fine because i had backed up all my data using an external hard drive with time machine. However I plug in my external hard drive to put all of my files back on my laptop, but the...

Hi. I'm currently using Mavericks and I want to upgrade to El Capitan in the next few days. What I would like to know is if my mavericks' backups will work with the new osx (i.e., will I be able to access files on that backups?). Also, I would like to know if I can use the same hard drive to...

Dear all mac users! I have now scoured the web for a solution to my problem. My Mac only has 128 GB of storage and 8 GB of memory (RAM), and it has started to run quite slow to the point where it has become a nuisance. I cannot upgrade my Mac with Apple, so I will have to solve the problem...