MacBook Air :: How To Check External Disk Capacity
Sep 9, 2014how can I check the free space capacity of an external disk connected to my MacBook Air?
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MacBook Pro :: Unable To Check External Hard Disk / Cannot Find The Disk
Feb 15, 2011I've download a Seagate Diagnostics programme to check whether my external Seagate FreeAgent Desk is working properly or not. However, when I run the programme, it indicates that cannot find the disk.
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Jun 10, 2010I bought a 3rd party battery for my MBP. I put it in and after cycling the battery i noticed that the full charge capacity was only 3990mAh (supposed to be 5500mAh). I returned the battery today and got and an upgraded replacement. this shows the full charge capacity at 4995mAh (supposed to be 5600mAh).
is this normal. Do I just need to give it some time or is it something with the batteries.
MacBook Pro :: Can't Check SSD As Startup Disk
Nov 9, 2010I got an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD and it runs fine and it's fast when using the computer. But the boot up time is so ridicules slow, slower then my old 500GB 7200RPM drive. My boot up time is around 37 sec with the SSD. The Apple logo came's up and the spinning wheel spinning forever!.
I think I know what the problem is, it's searching for like 25 sec for the first boot drive, and it can't find my SSD. Other people I know here on Macrumors just checked the SSD in the "Start up" in System Preferences and reboot, then they getting fast boot time. When I check my SSD and press reboot, it's still slow and when I later check the Start Up disk, none disk is selected (neither the SSD or "Network startup"...
Here is how it always look like when going in to System Preferences -> Startup Disk after a reboot, none is selected... (sorry for the Swedish language, I hope you will understand)
What should I do to fix this problem? (I've tried to reset NVRAM, PRAM and SMC, but with no luck).
OS X Mavericks :: Utility Disk - Check Disk Not Working?
Jun 29, 2014I have a MacBook Pro running Mavericks.
Recently I noticed that if I run Check Disk in Disk Utility, all the process works correctly but at the end it doesn't tell me that everything is correct (in green).
On the contrary, if I run it in recovery mode, (reboot w cmd-r), it works correctly to the end with the correct green result at the end.
Applications :: High Capacity Disk Format For Mac
Feb 27, 2009Blue-Ray has not been yet supported by Mac, I'm just wondering is there any high capacity disk can hold 25 GB audio files or more?
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Feb 9, 2012I'm new to this whole mac thing, and maybe I'm overlooking something....but this just doesn't seem right. If I click on the hard disk of my new 13" MBA 256G, and choose get info, I get the following:
Capacity: 250.14GB
Available: 296.42GB
How the heck does Lion think that I have more free space than the drive can even hold?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: AirPort Showing Different Time Capsule Disk Capacity
Sep 8, 2010I just secure erased my Time Capsule disk through AirPort Utility to set it up with my new iMac. After erasing the 1TB disk, AirPort said that the disk capacity is only 931GB even though the Time Machine preferences displayed 998GB available prior to me initiating the first backup. Does anyone know why this discrepancy exists? It should be noted that the previous backup on the Time Capsule disk from my old Mac took up about 68GB so is AirPort Utility just struggling to show the new capacity after the secure erase?
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May 5, 2012I have Mid 2011 iMac of 500GB hard disk capacity. Is it possible to add/increase the hard disk capacity internally, say add another 500GB or replace it with 1 TB drive?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Need Fastest External Drive With 1.5TB Capacity?
Apr 19, 2009I need a new external drive for my macbook pro. I need 1.5TB of capacity and found the Seagate FreeAgent Desk. But I am not sure if I should go with the Mac version which features a firewire 800 connection. Is it that much faster? And will the usb 2.0 interface be enough for 1080p playback?
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Mar 4, 2012I've got an old - 2 years - Maxtor 500GB USB external unit attached to my iMac running OSX 10.7.3 - which is used for backups. I received a couple of errors when copying some files so decided it would be best to erase it and start again with it.I used Disc Utility to erase it ( Mac OS Extended Journaled) but - and lord knows how I did this - its now telling me its got a capacity of 901 GB...
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iBooks Author, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
MacBook Pro :: External Hard Drive - Disk Utility Can't Repair Disk
Jun 27, 2014I have a Seagate 1 TB Backup Plus Drive which was working perfectly fine until I plugged it into a USB hub. It detected it while in the hub and I was able to get files off of it, but when I ejected it from the hub and put it back into the USB slot on the computer it was not detected by finder. It shows up in the disk utility and I clicked verify and repair and it says:
Verify and Repair volume “Seagate Backup Plus Drive”
Checking file system
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Is there any way to get this to work properly again? Or if not is there a way for me to recover my files on the external hard drive?
I have a Macbook PRO late 2011 running OS X Mavericks.
MacBook Pro :: Apple Hardware Check Does Check Hardrives?
Jun 8, 2010As the Title of The Post says, i need to know if Apple Hardware check, Does check the hard drive. I'm getting a little bit more frequent hard drive clicks so i want to make sure my HD is not failing. So i need to know as so as possible if Apple hardware check looks for Hard drive Problems. And if it does not. Can someone point me into some Utilities i can use?
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Dec 4, 2010I currently have external storage devices by DataRobotics - 2 DroboPro and 1 DroboElite. I bought the new MacPro 2 months ago and have been having problems with the Drobo devices disconnecting constantly. After a lot of diagnostics including Apple replacing the logic board in my MacPro, it was identified that the issue was with the iSCSI initiator that DataRobotics uses. It is not 64bit kernal compatible and as a result, the drives disconnect randomly especially when moving data from one external drive to the other. I am forced to boot the MacPro in 32bit kernel mode for the drives to work properly. DataRobotics is not committing to fixing the 64bit kernel issue so I'm now looking to replace this technology.
I found some interesting technology by Netgear and was considering buying their product, however, I had the worst experience ever with dealing with pre-sales & technical support department, after dealing with 4 different individuals, I concluded that they have no clue about their own products, the staff is so junior, it's as if I called a completely different company when talking about their own product. I am therefore going to stay away from that company.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Have To Check & Repair Disk Permissions On Every Restart
Apr 7, 2012why I have to check & repair disk permissions every time I have to restart my MacBook Pro. When I do the check I get various messages eg 'Library should be '0', is '80'. And other variations for Library.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Brand New IMac Runs A Disk Check On Start Up?
Feb 16, 2012I've owned this iMac for less then 20 hours
Mac OSX 10.7.3
21.5"
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ram
"Mid 2011"
It was purchased brand new. I used it for one hour yesterday, run the set up, install updates. thats all I have done with it. Today I awake to it presenting a loading bar of some sort under the Apple logo and Spinning wheel. I researched the bar, and found that it was a progress bar for a disk check, and since it doesnt complete (I let it do its thing) something must be wrong, However when i run disk utility, it can find now error in the disk. but my sound and video play pack does not work unless i restart the machine. this seems like an unessecary process. what are the possible causes?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: How To Check Smart Status On External
Nov 18, 2010Any way to really check for hardware failure on an external FW800 drive. I'm interested in being able to check for bad/pending sectors. SMART status on external drives is not supported in disk utility or SmartCTL
What else is out there?
OS X :: Encrypting External Disk And Backup On Second External Disk
Jan 5, 2011As I have a MBP 17" and a MBA Ultimate 11.6" I have copied all data that I need onto a 1 TB external disk and made 4 partitions on it, one for each type of data ( movies/music, data , software etc etc ). 1. I want to password lock/encrypt it yet be able to access it from both laptops as regular data would be.2. I want to create a backup of the 1 TB disk above, on to another 1 TB external disk and make it encrypted/password protected also. Maybe follow the partition structure maybe not, thats not paramount.What's the best way (apart from .dmg file) to achieve this given the data on disk in point 1 will change often as I create/edit more files.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Disk Utility Can't Repair Disk (1 Partition) On External Hard Drive
Apr 24, 2012I have a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio FW800 external that has 5 partitions, connected to my 2011 iMac. I had help doing the partitions and don't really remember the reasoning, but one is just for my SuperDuper! backup, one is Miscellaneous, one for movie clips off my camcorder, one for misc scanned photo's and one for my genealogy research. I back up using Time Machine to a Time Capsule and also to this WD hard drive with SuperDuper!
Recently I'm getting a pop up message that "Mac OS X can't repair the disk "Genealogy"'. And it needs to be reformatted. It's become a read only disk. When I look in Disk Utility it shows all the partitions as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" EXCEPT for the one in question. I also noticed that there are a lot of files with "date created" being the same date in 1969! These files may be letters I've written or photo's I added to that partition within the last few years.
I think I have to completely reformat the entire external hard drive to repair this, but I want to make sure. Because it's going to be a major hassle backing it all up to another external (having to get one first) and then figuring out how to make the files that have turned "read only" in that one partition, back to their original state! Does this sound right, that I have to reformat the entire external hard drive? And how do I get the read-only files back to their original state.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Leopard :: Disk Write Cache Corruption On External Hard Disk?
Feb 15, 2011Recently I purchased an external hard disk, to put all of my pictures of my baby due to space limitations on my internal laptop drive. Since my Canon camera 10 megapixel pictures take up a ton of space this was occurring at an alarming rate. My intention was also to back up to DVD but never got to it. This is both a comment and a question.
Now said baby, is getting really good at pulling cords etc. He managed to do this on the external drive firewire cable. As far as i know the drive was not in the process of actually writing. However, after a few minutes and trying to re-plug the drive the OS crashed with a Grey Screen of Death hardware error that tells you that you need to push the power button..
This apparently corrupted the drive's directory. Upon reboot the drive would not mount. Since there were time machine backups on the drive too Diskwarrior was not able to reconstruct the drive in the built in memory available on the computer. Time machine stores millions of files and Diskwarrior apparently wants to keep it all in memory at once. Since my computer has 2GB you would hope that would be enough but apparently not. So that failed. Other utilities seemed to be able to find the files but not restore the directory. I also took it to the apple store they were not able to recover it.
I have to say this is extremely distressing, and hard to believe that a simple accident like this could cost the loss of thousands of pictures. I did send it to a rescue company but that was expensive but I think apple needs to do something about this situation.
On Windows there is a way to disable the write cache for external drives. This is not available for Mac OS X. This would prevent this rather common occurrence of a plug accidentally becoming disengaged when the drive is not in the process of writing. This reduces the odds but I still think apple, in order to become clearly superior, needs a better solution.
I know Apple has experimented with ZFS would this not eliminate this possibility of this kind of disaster? Is this in Snow Leopard desktop? I know they are thinking this is a business customer focused technology but clearly if it can eliminate this kind of thing then I think it is extremely useful to their non server customers. Perhaps there are other ways of dealing with this issue but ZFS is designed to deal with these issues. HFS+ is extremely fragile to disk corruption.
I know my situation is not that uncommon and this is not the first time this has happened to me with an external drive. You would think I had learned. I hate to think of how many other people have had the same thing happen to them.
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MacBook Pro
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: External Disk Not Showing Up In Disk Utility - Erase Partition
Sep 7, 2009Anyone knows why my external HD (USB disk connected to Airport extreme) does not show up in disk utility? (It sits on my desktop just fine and is fully functional) I' want to erase a partition but now i don't know how.
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Aug 6, 2010I have an external 500GB Freecom USB HDD with two Data partitions on it (FAT32 and NTFS). With a Windows tool, I made the two partitions smaller in order to free up some space (ca. 200GB) for an additional Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. This partition I wanted to create with the Mac OSX 10.6.4 Disk Utility. When I pluged in my USB HDD in my new iMac it mounted the two partitions, NTFS and EXT32 and the Disk Utility tool also showed the free (unpartitioned, almost 200GB) space on the HDD. Then, I chose to create a new Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition and let the tool do it. ...which I probably shouldn't have done. Disk utility stopped and showed an error message saying that it cannot read the partitions anymore and that it needs to be closed. No partitions can be mounted anymore since then on this HDD. Here is the logfile entry of Disk Utility (unfortunately, it's in German):............
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Apr 2, 2012I have a 20" mid 2007 iMac I would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard. My problem is I would like to do a clean install but before I erase my hard drive I would like to make sure it in good shape. I found my AHT disc and found that the version number is 3A127 is for a 24" iMac. I don't know why I have the wrong disc. Is it usuable in the 20" iMac?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Mid 2007 iMac
MacBook :: Get An External Disk Drive For 5,1
Apr 12, 2012My disk drive on my MacBook 5,1 (model #A1278) is bust. It will not accept a dvd/cd at all, it won't let it in...not an inch! seems like it's stuck in eject? as if there is a disk inside but as far as i know there is not. Nothing i have tried makes any difference. So i am wondering if i can buy an external disk drive, but this info is not obvious to me on the Apple Store website!
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
MacBook Pro :: It Won't Mount External Disk
Jun 20, 2012I have a new Macbook Pro with a retina display that won't mount a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Plus external 1TB drive. The drive shows up in the System Report under the USB tag. However Disk Utility does not see it. The drive shows up and is able to be erased and partitioned and mounted with another Macbook Pro running 10.6.8. So, the drive itself is good. how to get the drive to mount on the new Macbook Pro?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Air :: Have An External Drive And Can't Eject The Disk From It
Feb 17, 2012Ejecting a cd from external drive
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MacBook Air, iOS 5.0.1
MacBook Pro :: Unable To Attach External Disk Through USB?
Mar 1, 2012I bought my Macbook Pro 13 inc, 500 GB, i5, OS X Lion, 2 days ago and this is my first Mac .I cant see my external disk (Philips), Samsung Galaxy S by using USB ports (i tried both USB enterances, but not working). I checked my Hardware by Apple Hardware Test (extended test done) and it says 'No trouble found'I checked Utilities and USB devices are not written in the list, only 500 GB SATA disk shown. I uploaded MacFuse-Tuxera and ntfs-3g-2010 softwares for using USB devices but i cant solve the problem too... My USB devices are not shown in desktop and utilities lists How can i solve this problem, my devices work in Windows 7 - PC as usual, but in Macbook Pro, they dont work, please support me. I dont think that it can be hardware problem, Mac is new and devices are ok. Operating systems are different only.
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MacBook
Pro
MacBook Pro :: Change Permission Of External Disk?
Apr 17, 2012It is full permission in windows , I am logged in as admin in mac and there is no option in permissions menu in " get info " of this disk.I can not copy anything on my external disk?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Pro :: Format An External Hard Disk For Mac?
Apr 28, 2012I have format an External Hard disk for Mac. Can you advise how to format back to FAT32 format for Window
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: How To Password Protect External Disk
May 2, 2012I havve a segate external hard drive that I would liketo store sensitive data on. Is there a way to require a password to enable mounting?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
