usb drive

Morning everyone. I could use some assistance with USB drives, formatting them and their permissions on MacOS Ventura please. When inserting a brand new USB thumb drive into my Macbook Air M1 using Ventura 13.6.3 it automatically formats to MS Dos Fat32 and provides only custom access with no...

hi friends - I have a drive mystery, trying to solve for a professional friend. It appears simple on the surface but there are complications. It is a Iomega typical 500GB external drive. It has a valid HFS partition of ~490GB, 141GB of that 'used', which checks out Healthy in Disk Utility...

Based on the details below, I am curious. If I have a 512GB drive in my Mac, can I partition that drive, for Time Machine backups? Thus, if needed, use said partition to perform a restore of sorts? Details: Error: SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired) Link...

Hey, My usb flash stick has stopped working. I was wondering if you guys have any ideas how to get it mounted again. It began when I tried to delete an item from it. My comp showed an error and wouldn't move the file to trash. In frustration I pulled out the usb drive. Now it won't mount. When...

Im trying to play a movie on my smart tv using a usb drive. Ive formatted it as MS-DOS FAT but the drive isnt found on the smart tv. Ive also formatted other usb drives by the same method and th drive isnt recognised in Windows 7. Im beginning to think that maybe Disk Utility isnt formatting the...

I've been having this issue where external drives sometimes don't mount, but do after restart. My MBP is USB-C (no regular USB ports), and I'm using a USB-C hub/adapter. Wondering if it's the hub that's causing it? Before restarting, I've tried unplugging and re-plugging, both the drive and...

Hi I just got my first macbook 3 days ago and I need help. Im trying to transfer a 2gb file to my exfat formatted USB drive. It starts transfering around 50mb then stops. It says “about 2 minutes” but the transfer doesn’t progress. It can easily transfer smaller files like MS word files with no...

Hi there. I recently installed Mojave on my main device and attempted to create a boot drive for my older iMac which is in need of repair. Like most of you known, Mojave no longer shows previously purchased macOS in the app store. Apple has even come out and said to use devices with High Sierra...

Not sure if this is the correct spot to post this, but here goes... I recently installed Yosemite and it's working well, but when I removed the Install USB Yosemite wouldn't boot. I must have forgotten to copy something when I installed Clover but I don't know what. Does anyone know what I need...

Hi guys I used the following terminal commands to stop MacOS automatically mounting an external USB drive... sudo pico /etc/fstab UUID=NUMBER none hfs rw,noauto Source: https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-prevent-a-volume-from-mounting-at-boot-in-os-x/# (The USB drive is attached to a...

Not entirely sure if this belongs in this particular forum, but someone let me know if I need to move it. I just purchased the Western Digital My Passport Ultra 3TB disk (old model WDBBKD0030BBK-NESN) for use on my MacBook Pro 15 inch mid-2015 running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. I plan to use the...

I bought a usb drive which has a lightning connector on it which connects to my iphone. Are there any apps out there which would encrypt the files and photos stored on the drive that's accessed by my iOS device as well as other devices such as PC/android as it also has a micro usb port in it...

Hello all, I hope this is an acceptable place to ask this. I am quite frustrated, mostly at myself due to this failure. Let me tell you what happened and what I've tried. I had a FCP X project on a 128GB thumb drive (3.0 by PNY) that I was creating favorites in clips from. No extensive...

[EDIT: I'm no longer having this problem. I erased the USB drive in Disk Utility, which caused it to mount. However, now it's not showing up on the Windows laptop I'm using, which seems like a problem outside the scope of this forum. I may just transfer my files another way. Thanks to those who...