MacBook Pro :: Can't Access Macintosh HD
Jul 4, 2012
I just bought a new 15" Macbook Pro last two days, and today I used Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 7.
I devided 250GB of my HD for Mac, and the rest for Boot Camp Windows. During Windows 7 installation I maked format the boot camp partition and resized it to 50GB so I have unallocated 450GB free space. After Windows 7 installation completed, I used Disk Management on Windows to create another new partition with FAT formatted. Then I restarted my Macbook Pro to use Boot Camp Assistant to download Boot Camp Driver due to I forgot to download at the firs time.
But I didn't see my Macintosh HD and even Recovery HD on the start up disk selection menu (Hold Option during start-up)I try all things from Apple Support page even try to recover via Internet (Command + R during start-up) and make a Lion Recovery Disk (USD Flash Drive)I have another Macbook run Lion too so I try everything that should work but it's still not work.Finally, I log on to windows and format all Macintosh Partition for a hope to clean install the new Mac OS X Lion, but it still not work.he last thing I haved tried was to exchange my new Macbook Pro hard disk with my unibody 2008 macbook and try to install new Mac OS X Lion. After completed install all new Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (.0), I put the macbook pro hard disk back to the new Macbook Pro and try to boot it but it shows up the Stop Sign.
Info:MacBookPro, Windows7
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Jun 3, 2012
I have installed windows 7 on bootcamp, and currently running max os Lion currently i am having issues accessing the mac os itself. When i turned it on and off or restart it, it always gives me a bootup screen that said Mac OS Utilities, just like the picture in this link : [URL]I tried restarting it several times, it does not boot up my Macbook, to my desktop. I trist the windows it works just fine. Then i tried recovering it 3x, which each takes 6-7 hours to do it. and it still always keep booting up the same thing over and over again.
i tried re-installing the OS, but its always giving me message, "this mac os lion is damaged, cannot be installed in this computer" something like that. i've been trying to fix it a day or so, it still wont boot up my Desktop.. I tried restaring it and choosing my disk "Macintosh HD" but it still gives me a recover screen. I also tried pressing the option key then choose my disk, and it still doing the same thing.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 31, 2010
My MacBook has had song big problems, and all I can get it to do is boot up with the Mac OS X install disk, or the DVD I put ubuntu on earlier. Otherwise I get the grey screen with a folder and question mark flashing on the screen. I am unable to reinstall OS X because of the error, so we (I and a guy on this site) have worked out I need to backup my files using ubuntu, format the computer and then reinstall the OS.
I don't have an external hard drive, but I found ubuntu allows me to use my iPhone in the same way. I have backed up most of my files now, but I cannot access the main folders;
Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music or Pictures and I get the following message:
"The Folder contents could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "_____".
Another problem is to put these files back onto my newly formatted MacBook, I will have to access my iPhone using ubuntu, and I can't put items onto the Macintosh HD because I get the message; "Error while copying to '(name)'.
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Jul 3, 2012
After reinstall of OS X 10.7.4, I restored an older copy from Time Machine backup. I want to completely replace the current "Macintosh HD" folder with the folder that TM put inside it. I created a separate user account, that did not exist before to do it. Do I need to create a root account? Is there an easy way to copy /Macintosh HD/Macintosh HD/to/Macintosh HD/?
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iMac (24-inch), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 18, 2009
White MacBook running Leopard gets stuck at grey start up screen with spinning wheel after the Sharing & Permissions for everyone on the "Macintosh HD" was changed to "no access". I booted off of system disk and ran Verify Permissions and that gave me the message " Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit" Archive and Install failed as well. Tried booting off of Disk Warrior CD but MacBook kept restarting while holding down the C-key.
Luckily I did a back-up last week using Time Machine. But I would still like to refrain from a clean install if I can help it. There were a few new files and installs that occurred after the last back-up. Albeit not a major problem. So now I'm trying to change Permissions for the HD using Terminal. Current settings listed below.
total 12
d-wx-wx-wt@ 2 root admin 1024 May 18 06:50 .Trashes
--w--w--w- 1 root admin 4096 May 18 06:50 ._.Trashes
drwxrwx---@ 47 root admin 1666 May 18 06:57 Macintosh HD
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin May 18 06:32 Mac OS X Install DVD
But when I use the "chmod 755 Macintosh HD/" command in the Volumes Directory I get "chmod: Macintosh HD/: No such file or directory. Are their 3 spaces in that command? Or am I missing something else?
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Apr 8, 2012
FaceTime cant be installed on “Macintosh HD” because the version of Mac OS X is too new. I removed all traces of FaceTime and still not able to install from App store. New to macbook pro with Lion.
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Jun 26, 2012
I've replaced the hard drive with a ssd hd and intalled Lion on it. Now I've 128GB hd called "ssd" and 500GB hd called "Macintosh HD" (the old one). I've would like to erase Macintosh HD but is not possible. If I try I've an alert with "Is not possible to unmount the drive".
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Dec 9, 2014
I've used PCs for awhile, but lately I was toying with some of my computers info and found under the "About This Mac" my computer has 130 GB worth of "Backups". I have 18GB audio which I though was a lot, and 48 GB of movies, 22GB of photos, 27 GB of apps, and 74 GB of other. Overall I have 177 GB free out of 500 GB total.
I want to clear my hard drive, what's a good way to do this? And why do I have so many "Backups"? What do these do? I use Time Machine--I don't know if that's relevant.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Dec 5, 2014
I have a Retina 13-inch Late 2013, Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 with a memory of $GB MHz DDR3 and my start up disk is the Macintosh HD, how to repair my MAC, it has been corrupted due to not enough storage available, how am I going to set the repair on this issue? Can I purchase an additional storage to solve this issue or should I just get another external drive instead?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Apr 18, 2010
1. how do i get the MACINTOSH HARD DRIVE onto my desktop?
2. my battery reader thingy says i got like 7 hours? with +2 brightness. thought it supposed to be near 10 hours (just doing websurfing,itunes,adium)2.5 should i calibrate it asap?
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Apr 23, 2012
Runtime Corruption detected on Macintosh Hd, fsck will be forced on next mount.
Hfs_swap_BTDNode:record #-1 invalid offset (0x0000)
Hfs: node=14669 fileID=4 volume=Macintosh HD device=/dev/disk0s2
0 [level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [Errtype FS] [MountPT /]
What does this mean and how do I fix it? It came up during safe boot which I used because I have the gray screen with apple logo and waiting that won't let me log all the way onto the computer.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 19, 2012
i bought osx lion a month ago and cannot figure out how to download it to my macbook os. i have been told to download it to the macintosh hd drive on my macbook but it will not let me. What can i do. i have 7gb available, i have the whatever core i have to have.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 29, 2012
I deleted my Macintosh HD permanently mac won't work.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 30, 2012
Yesturday suddenly my macbook pro just quit on me. It got really slow, and eventually froze up, so i reset the computer, but to my suprise, it would'nt start up again, it was stuck on a BLANK loading screen, one in 5/6 times rebooting it would go to the apple logo. eventually i put in the OS disk, and again, it would'nt get past the screen even while holding down 'c' eventually after countless tries, it did get past, but now it says, "Select the disk where you want to install Mac OS X" and its not showing anything under that. I went to the disk utility, and it would not show my Macintosh Hd, so I think there is something wrong with the hard drive, but I've looked online and people have complained about it being a data ribon problem as well.
-Late 2010 model, macbook pro
by the way I had the newest Os installed, but I only have the Snow Leopord Cd.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Hard drive, OS
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Sep 7, 2014
My Macintosh disk info shows almost full but my all of my deta is not enough to make it full. i removed many of files and photos but it does not create any space empty even after deleting my files and photos.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1
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Dec 18, 2009
I saw this on the internet and I was wondering if anyone has been able to do that here. I would love to hear your experience with the procedure. Here is the link that I ran into. Really interesting [URL]
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Jun 13, 2012
I deleted my startup disk in my computer (Macintosh HD) and can't boot my computer. I am in disk utility when my computer starts up and I don't know what to do. Can't reinstall lion because I have no startup disk in my computer it just boots me to disk utility.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Dec 3, 2014
New to Mac and just updated from Maverick to Yosemite on my Mac Book Air. I have an icon/app that shows Macintosh HD on my desktop. don't know what to do to get it off desktop.
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Dec 7, 2014
How do I recover the data after erase the Macintosh HD disk and also reinstall the system?My laptop could not be turned on last Wednesday, but I needed to finish up my assignment and submit on Saturday.I searched online a way to keep my data but the laptop could be fix up.
Under disk utility, I erased the Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then reinstalled the system.It's said that in this way my data will be all kept, but when I finally got my laptop turned on.All my data was gone including my files, applications, and so on.
Hardware Overview: Model Name: MacBook Air Model Identifier: MacBookAir4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 1.6 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 2 GB Boot ROM Version: MBA41.0077.B11 SMC Version (system): 1.74f4
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MacBook Air
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May 21, 2012
I turned off my macbook pro last night, then when I went to turn it on this morning, I got a flashing folder with a question mark. So I ran lion internet recovery. Disk utility came up and so I tried to repair the disk and reinstall lion osx, the problem is my mac HD isn't showing up, so I couldn't run either. I haven't turned off my mac in a few weeks, I usually just put it to sleep at night or let it go idle. How to back-up my files.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 26, 2014
My 2012 MacBook Pro got stuck on the screen with the apple logo and spinning wheel after I tried restarting it.i haven't updated it recently and it was working fine before I restarted it. I did command-r when restarting and when trying to repair the disk I got the following message:
Checking file system
checking journaled HFS Plus volume
checking extents overflow file
checking catalog file
keys out of order (red)
rebuilding catalog B-tree
The volume macintosh hd couldn't not be repaired (red)
volume repair complete
updating boot support partitions for the volume as required
error:disk utility can't repair this disk....disk, and restore your backed-up files (red)
what do i do?? is my computer crashed?
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MacBook Pro
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Jul 4, 2010
i accidentally dragged the macintosh HD off my finder side bar menu and it went "POOF" in a cloud. how do i get it back?
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Jun 26, 2014
Model - Macbook Pro 2013 Retina
Issue - In the disk utility, the free space under partition and Macintosh HD do not reflect on each other. There is the difference of about 10GB between these two.
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Apr 22, 2012
The default 'Macintosh HD' hard drive on my Intel Mac Pro (OSX10.6.8) is almost full and I'd like to clone it to a new larger capacity drive. To keep things simple I will remove the existing drive and keep it safe as a backup. I understand that I can clone the drive to a new one and make the new one bootable using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or the Apple Disk Utility but I just have a couple of quick questions.
Firstly I believe I must partition the new disk in Disk Utility using a GUID Partition table. What about the naming of the disk? Again to keep things simple I would like the new disk to be named 'Macintosh HD'.
Regardless of what I name the new disk when it is initially formatted/partitioned will the cloning process also copy the 'Macintosh HD' name to it? Can you have two disks with the same name connected to the Mac Pro at the same time during the clone process?
Secondly, will the cloning process in the Apple Disk Utility automatically make the new drive bootable or are there further steps required after the clone is made?
Finally, if I use the Apple Disk Utility to create the clone should I do this from the original Snow Leopard DVD that came with the Mac Pro or should I use the latest version that is on the installed Mac OSX?
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Oct 18, 2006
Any suggestions for backing up a macintosh system? I have a Imac G5 running OS X 10.4.8. I'm not sure the size the size of the drive; it's one of the Apple standard ones, I'm guessing 400 MB.
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Aug 29, 2010
The name of the Macintosh HD has somehow been changed to a tiny little circle with an "x" it. I think this may have been done accidentally, but I also would like to eliminate the possibility that it indicates some sort of problem. Of course I know how to highlight the icon and select the naming area and just rename it, bit does anyone know if the little circle with the "x" means anything other than someone just accidentally renamed the Macintosh HD somehow?
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Aug 26, 2009
I did this in the past, but it has reappeared since I just updated my Mac. How do you hide this on the Desktop?
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Nov 10, 2009
I am buying a Western Digital (probably) External Hard Disk Drive today. It will either be 250GB or 320GB, depends on how much money I'm going to have with me. I wanted to know what the best way to format it is so it can be 'read and write' on both Macintosh and Windows in the same time. But if that's not possible, then at least Windows only (Win7) since that's what I use for games and now games are in huge sizes, just got Call of Duty 6 and it's like 11GBs.
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Dec 10, 2009
I was trying to change the icon of my "Macintosh HD" on my iMac. I'd done this earlier on my Macbook Pro, and I had the same problem as I'm having now. I eventually got it done on the 'Book Pro but I don't remember what I had to do. When clicking "Get Info", in the left-top corner the icon isn't there. It's blank and says "png". Why does the icon not show up? I can't copy-paste it, and it's stuck that way.
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Dec 23, 2009
I use to have the macintosh hd icon on the desktop but today when i booted up it wasnt there. I read on another blog that u have to check something on order to display it but im unable to find where to find this
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