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hard drive errors

  1. LeoI07

    Resolved How to fix an external hard drive partition?

    I have this 12 TB external hard disk drive with the main partition being an 11 TB exFAT partition. The thing is, this partition is somehow broken, and when it gets mounted macOS will often display an error saying "macOS can't repair the disk" and that I should back up all the files on it; macOS...
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  2. pranaman

    Disk Utility Errors - WD My Book Studio

    Helping a friend with her 17" A1297 MBP with OS X 10.11.6,El Capitan. Her 2 TB My Book external drive used to run Time Machine, and has about 300 GB free. It stopped backing up. I ran Disk Utility on it, and get many errors. I looked for, but didn't see a log. I read the...
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