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  1. ipanini

    repair 8TB sata drive that reports wrong size - HOWTO?

    Hi, I'm looking for help to try to fix a harddrive that is reporting a completely wrong size. It is a Seagate Archive 8TB harddrive. Research has 16383 cylinders, 16 heads and sector(size?) is 63. I would expect that in terminal working with diskutil or fdisk should be able to reformat the...
  2. L

    MacBook Air ‘15 formatted now can’t install OS

    i tried erasing my brother’s MacBook Ai, now it gives me the file with ? error when I turn it on, I go in recovery mode with cmd+R as it won’t let me do any of the other combinations. I then try to install Sierra and at -16 (or -360) seconds it gives me the error An error occurred while...
    • Liakos11
    • Thread
    • format format hd macbook air not installing
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: MacBook Air
  3. C

    All Devices Hard Drive formatting in High Sierra

    I plan to install two 8tb sata drives in my 2010 mac pro. Will they format to full 8TB with high sierra? Thank you!!!
    • Chempink02
    • Thread
    • 10.3.9 format hd mac pro (2010)
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: iOS 13
  4. W

    How to password-protect HSF+ disks now that HSF+ encryption not possible?

    If I understand correctly, Big Sur doesn't allow me to create an HSF+ encrypted disk anymore—and even when control-clicking an HSF+ disk and choosing "Encrypt", it converts it to APFS. How, then, can I create a password-protected HSF+ disk on an external USB drive? I don't want to use it for...
  5. L

    backup / disk format with Superduper

    is the data on the disk at risk during conversion? should one trust the app to make the conversion? other options/methods? risk to data primary concern. another clone prior necessary? xternal disk encrypted, two partitions
    • longgonesam
    • Thread
    • apfs (encrypted) backup format hd hfs+
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  6. CocktailHour

    Format ext, Copy Files

    Hello! I'm running 10.13.6, and need to put my film on a Linux formatted drive so that a movie theater can play it. This means I need to format a thumbdrive for say, ext3, then mount it, and then use something like cp to copy the files over. Been searching all over, but only finding...
    • CocktailHour
    • Thread
    • dcp ext ext3 ext4 format format hd linux
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: macOS
  7. S

    Disk Utility Formatting Mojave Drive

    After installing beta 2, I started having most of my built in MacOS applications crash with minimal use (without any obvious reason). Upon running disk utility, I found that my drive had been corrupted by the new install. I attempted a repair with no success. But... no big deal, it’s time to...
  8. L

    Help: Could not mount disk1s2 after erase

    Hey, I'm new to this forum and, don't know much about Mac. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 edition. I recently Installed a used SSD (Samsung Evo 850 250gb) in place of my HD, and took out the optical drive and placed my HD there instead. I have a USB to boot High Sierra on the new SSD, which...
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