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  1. M

    Hard disk problems

    I don't really know the best site for posting this, but i thought i'd try my luck here. I have just got a new external hard disk, the Seagate expansion, and i am trying to format it to work on my mac. I was told that i had to erase the disk and format it to OS X Extended (Journal) with the Disk...
  2. P

    Can't access any external portable hard drive unless I restart

    I bought my rMB used in February, along with the Apple USB-C HDMI multiport adapter, Apple USB-C VGA multiport adapter, and Apple USB-C to USB adapter. For a long time, I could access my two fairly new external portable hard drives just fine if I plugged them in via one of these adapters. But...
  3. P4ulypops

    iPad Pro Camera Adaptor :: Videos

    Hi All, I'm going to Hospital for a big op, at the end of the month - and i'll be in there for a couple of weeks... I have a iPad Pro, and a USB3 hard drive filled with video-content i've aquired over the years; MKVs, MP4s, AVIs... I'm not sure of all the formats, but Plex plays them all. I...
  4. R

    El Capitan upgrade fail, can't access HD

    I have a Macbook Pro 2010 13 inches, and I had Yosemite installed. I decided to download El Capitan from the Apple Store and then proceeded to the installation, which was gonna take 30 minutes. My charger or my charger cord has been showing weird issues: sometimes when plugged, if I touch the...
  5. arthurecho

    imac 27 i3

    hello mac community ! i want your advice on the following issue I have with my Imac I3 3,2ghz I3 2tb hitachi hd I notice my computer is making a noisy noise constantly, the hd is grinding but that's not really a problem, it's a noise like something is running and i hear it. the thing is that...
  6. J

    Kernel Panic! Could it be my Hard Drive. Please Help!!

    I got a Brand New Retina iMac 27 inch with a Fusion Drive. Yesterday as I was working the machine restarted and went into a panic loop. it loads until half way the loading bar with the apple logo and it goes into a message that reads "Your computer restarted because of a problem" I tried all...
  7. yrduougyuc

    Beefing up old iMac as Time Machine Server

    So today I dropped my external hard drive containing my backups and it's not turning on anymore. This got me thinking, carrying around my backups with me is kind of stupid (I travel quite a lot), so I had an idea: I've got a 2006 iMac at home, as well as a version of 10.6 Server which should run...
  8. yaxomoxay

    External HD stopped mounting. Can't mount it!

    Hi guys - I don't know what happened but I can't mount my external HD anymore (it has external power source, so it's not that, plus it turns on). This is what Disk Utility Shows: I noticed the Owners: Disabled. And this is what I see if I run diskutil from terminal to get info: This...
  9. C

    Help needed, partitioning an external RAID drive for Windows (El Capitan)

    Hi, new member here, So I have recently purchased a LaCie Big2 12tb HDD with RAID. This is to go with my iMac that has a Bootcamp Windows partition generally used for playing games. What I want to do is use the LaCie drive in a RAID 1 configuration for the OSX partition. I then want to create...
  10. S

    Unable To Boot Up

    When I turn on my MBP (late 2013) all I get is a flashing briefcase with a question mark . This first happened yesterday and I followed the apple instructions for recovery (Command + R) but when I reached the Utilities screen I couldn't use the Restore or Reinstall options as neither could see...
  11. B

    Using a ex hardrive without reformating

    I am a photographer and artist. normally i use pc so my external hard drive is formatted in ntfs i wouldn't mind changing the format if i had a place for everything. my hard drive is the focal point of everything i do. i have about 1 and a quarter terabytes of info on it. i have nothing large...
  12. kcorbbrock

    Resolved Resize Internal SSD

    I recently upgraded my original internal 750GB disk drive to a new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD. Before installing, I cloned the original drive to this new SSD. After install, I realized there was an unallocated amount of free space (209.91GB) that I unintentional partitioned. I've tried to resize...
  13. J

    How to transfer my hard drive's files to an ssd

    Hey, so, as they do, earlier last month, my hard drive started to fail on my mid 2012 macbook pro. I bought an ssd (samsung evo 850) and tried to clone my hard drive to the ssd using Carbon Copy Cloner. No matter how many times I tried, every time I tried to clone it would stay copying for 12-20...
  14. N

    upgrades to macbook air 13" mid-2013 (6,2) ?

    hello...im getting sick of my computer telling me that my disk is almost full and full...then my computer starts acting weird and i gotta look for stuff to delete (i have a 128gb). is there any way that i can max out my storage to like 1TB or something without hauling around an external drive...
  15. blut haus

    Resolved PowerMac G5 hard drive

    I have a PowerMac G5 dual 1.8GHz model. I picked up a new 500GB SATA WD blue hard drive to replace the original. I popped the drive in and started up off the DVD to install 10.5. The disk utility refuses to see the drive. I tested it in another machine and it shows up just fine, so I don't...
  16. F

    HELP! HD locked on reinstall!

    hi lovely peeps! So I'm stuck, I wanted to start my Mac from scratch with a fresh install of EI Capitan but now my hard drive is locked! Please see the attached images. https://www.dropbox.com/s/s023l3g3di72hhi/2016-01-17 13.00.51.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/fv3ffcyobuxp26j/2016-01-17...
  17. B

    Is my MacBook Pro hard drive dead?

    The hard drive on my computer stopped booting up. Apple MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 with 500GB Hard drive (spinning type) MacBookPro5,3 OS X 10.11.2 I cannot think of anything that might have caused it to suddenly stop. My suspicion is the drive needs to be...
  18. J

    PleaseHelp!...MBPr Black screen/chime heard/no response to various booting options

    Please advise if you think it could be the logic board/harddrive/SATA cable or another issue. Thanks in advance! MacBook Pro Retina 13" (Late 2013) Model A1502 C02LJ7G9FH01 500gb SSD Bought Nov 5th 2013 from Apple Store Sydney Australia Live in Uk Not under Apple care warranty Crash...
  19. R

    Re-formatting an external hard drive

    Hello all. Please excuse my almost total lack of computing expertise or even using the correct words, but I could certainly use people's help here! The situation is that I have come to acquire a Macbook Air but the external hard drive I have been using up til now (a Samsung M3 Portable 2TB)...
  20. S

    Macbook Pro crashes when I watch a movie

    Hey everyone, I recently bought a new hard drive SSD SanDisk 480GB after the apple store told me my previous hard drive was the issue of crashing. After installing the SSD drive with the new Operating System, my computer still crashes. It also crashes to Civilization 5. Can anyone help with...