OS X :: Can I Install SL On A Brand New Hard Drive
Aug 25, 2009I want to use my old hard drive as a bootable drive just in case SL gets messed up.
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OS X :: Which Brand Of Hard Drive Is To Buy
Jun 11, 2009IS IT WORTH BUYIN A NAME BRAND HARD DRIVE VS GENERIC?
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Jun 12, 2010After my MacBook hard drive had failed, I decided that I needed to purchase a newer hard drive to replace the old one.Which brand and which hard drive models do you guys suggest?
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Sep 6, 2010I have a 500 gig hard drive that was given to me that I'd like to put in it but I'm worried about voiding the warranty. I've looked up replacing it and it seems simple.
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Oct 19, 2010Im looking to upgrade my hard drive, I've heard bad things about both of these drives.. can anyone recommend an alternate that's reliable?
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Feb 11, 2008While reading up on the Early 2008 Mac Pro before mine shipped, Macworld wrote that "The eight-core 2.8GHz system lagged in some of our tests, results we attribute to its somewhat sluggish Seagate hard drive." referring to the OEM 320GB. When my 2008 Mac Pro arrived I was happy to see it's a Western Digital instead. (always preferred them over seagate... far quieter)
MacBook Pro :: Hard Drive Parking On Brand New Pro
Dec 29, 2009I just got a brand new macbook pro 15 inch 2.53 ghz with the 250 gb, 5400 rpm hard drive. It sound like hard drive is parking and unparking (clicking) a lot when the computer is a idle or just sitting at the desk top. Is this normal, and how do you stop it?
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Mar 30, 2010I recently purchased a 13" Unibody MBP, with the 250gb HDD. Im looking to upgrade that to a 640GB HD, and I have been looking at newegg. They currently have 3-4 of them up there, and 2 of them (The WD and the Samsung) have reviews saying not to use it in the MBP, because the Hard Drive will constantly spin down and go to sleep.
View 9 Replies View RelatedPower Mac G5 :: Brand New LaCie Hard Drive Is Dead?
Oct 15, 2007I have a G5 (Late 2005) and I just bought a LaCie Quadra 500GB hard drive last week and I have it connected with Firewire 800. I was away for the weekend and left the surge protecter unplugged while I was gone. I came home today and plugged everything back in and powered up. My G5 does not recognize the LaCie Drive. It powers on and I can hear it running, but it will not mount on the desktop. I checked the cables and everything is connected.
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G5 Dual 2.3 GHz
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
MacBook Air :: Brand New Super-drive Not Working With Brand New 11-inch Mid 2012?
Jul 2, 2012just came home from Apple Store today with new computer and superdrive, which is not showing up when plugged in. When I put a CD in it reads it for a few seconds then spits it out. I am on the road so getting to an Apple Store will not be easy for the next week.
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MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: Carbon Copy Clone - Size / Brand External Hard Drive
Nov 1, 2010I have a MacBook from Christmas 2009. I'm very happy with it. I am using an external HD, a Western Digital Passport with 500 GB for my Time Machine backups. The MacBook seems to have a 250GB hard drive, but no firewire connection. So far I have used up about half of my WD Passport external with Time Machine backups. I have about 6500 photos and almost 12GB of iTunes music, and I don't want a catastrophic failure to cause me to lose it all. In addition to the Time Machine backup, I'm considering using Carbon Copy Clone with an additional external hard drive for a complete backup. I'm not very Mac or programming savvy, so I'm looking for an idiot proof method. What do you guys think of CCC, and what size/brand external HD do you recommend? I think CCC has to have an HFS+ formatted drive. I don't want to keep it connected all the time, but I would like to occasionally clone the MacBook harddrive so I always have a fairly current bootable backup.
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Apr 9, 2012I have a 2008 macbook pro with brand new 500GB hard drive and 6GB new RAM. My old hard drive is backed up on external drive, via time machine. When the shop put in the new hard drive (there was nothing wrong with old one, it was just stuffed to the brim), they loaded snow leopard from a disk, but I haven't put anything from the old drive back on yet....I haven't even configured my mail and am just reading mail from ipad and phone these days.
Should I install Lion before I restore all the old backed-up stuff, or is it important to have anything, ( like maybe preferences) already on the computer when I download Lion. I want to be selective when restoring from time machine, because my old hard drive had a lot of ancient software and junk on it that had migrated from every computer we've ever owned, and that is many, many.So, I'm just stuck on the best way to proceed. Also, should I install the latest update for 10.6.8 before I download Lion? I see today that some new updates have become available; java, security, safari, and apple software installer.
MacBook Pro :: Remove Hard Drive - Install In External Enclosure And Install OS X?
Jan 5, 2011My MBP was recently squished in a motorcycle accident and its hard drive and superdrive were destroyed. Is it possible to buy a new hard drive, put it in an external USB 2.0 enclosure, then install OS X on it using the discs that came with my destroyed MBP in a different Mac, then put the hard drive into the squished computer and have it use that hard drive as its startup disk? The motherboard on the squished computer is fine, I just can't install OS X on it because it has a broken superdrive.
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Jan 30, 2010I'm using a iMac PowerPC G5 that I've received from my brother. He gave it to me with a fresh install of Leopard on it, but he unfortunately no longer has the disc that came with the computer that he also used to format it before handing it to me. With that said, I ordered a new internal hard drive. Naturally, I'll need to re-install Leopard, but I don't have an install disc anywhere. How is this going to be possible? Or will it not be? Do I have to buy a new Leopard install disc? If so where and how much?
View 6 Replies View RelatedMacBook :: Install OS On Blank Hard Drive Without Install Disc
Jun 3, 2014I have an aluminum Macbook from late 2008, model A1278. I just had to replace the hard drive, and need to install an OS on the currently blank HDD. Problem is, my CD drive doesn't work, so I can't just install from a disc. I had installed Mountain Lion on my old hard drive, but the original OS was Snow Leopard. I haven't succeeded in getting any of my information off my old HDD. Is there another way to install either Snow Leopard or Lion onto my new hard drive?
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Mar 6, 2009Clearly there must be a way to do this, right? Can I install off an external hard drive? Off a USB drive? Share my macbook pro's DVD drive somehow? If the hard drive on the mac mini is completely reformatted and I plug it into the USB port on the external hard drive which I partition and install the Leopard DMG would it be able to boot off of it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMacBook :: Install New Hard Drive / No DVD Drive / Gray Screen Of Death
Aug 29, 2014I have never backed up my Macbook 2.1 duo before yesterday. While in the process of backing up I was using photoshop, and my computer froze. I waited 30 min and then decided to shut it down. When I tried to turn it on it will not boot-up, I only get the grey screen of death. I had just recently upgraded to Snow Leopard this week. I used an external DVD drive which seemed to cause issues. So I thought I might be able to use that to install a clean version on this busted drive, well nothing worked, tried holding option key, holding down the C key. I ordered another drive that says its compatible with my drive. Since the my mac doesnt seem to acknowledge my drive, I bought an external housing for my new internal. I want to format and load Snow leopard onto the new hard drive using my girl friends mac. then put in my macbook. I would like to know if this will work? how I need to format my drive in disk utility.. Is it possible that it is not my Hard Drive?
Another side note, I just upgraded my RAM from 1GB to 4GB on my Macbook 2.1, I did try and putting my old ram back in just incase that was the issue.
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MacBook, iOS 6, 2.1 13" intel duo
MacBook Pro :: Hard Drive Makes Crunching Sound / Partitioned Drive To Install Windows?
Aug 28, 2009So I just partitioned my drive to install Windows and noticed that my hard drive is now making that "crunching" sound that some hard drives make. It started during my Windows installation, and it happens regularly in Windows.
I also briefly hear it while OSX is starting up, but it doesn't seem to happen much in OSX. I've launched a bunch of applications and it is still pretty much silent. Any ideas what could cause this? Could it be NTFS? I have several hard drives in my PC that don't make that sound. I am using a 17" MacBook Pro unibody with the regular 320gb 5400rpm drive that it comes with.
OS X :: Cannot Install Software On Hard Drive
Nov 14, 2010I have had this iMac i7 for over a month and I cannot figure out, how to install software/transfer software onto the HDD and NOT the SSD.
The SSD is GREAT, but there are certain things like iWorks and several other programs that i do not NEED the extra speed and reliability if it means I can fit more powerful software onto the SSD (final cut, dragon stop motion, corral painter...)
there are also programs like iMovie and iPhoto I do not need on the ssd because I have aperture and final cut.
Now here is the problem: when i try to install some misc. software onto the HDD, it says that I cannot because "You can only install this software on the disk that is running Mac OS X." How do I also get the HDD to also run Mac OS X?
Mac Pro :: Can Install Leopard On A Second Hard Drive
Feb 26, 2008on my Mac Pro (2.66Ghz) I have two hard drives. One contains Leopard and the other hd is used for Time Machine back-ups.I want to add another hard drive that will contain Leopard and Windows XP using Bootcamp.fter I install Leopard on the newer hard drive how can I choose which hard drive to boot from? Also, on a bad day I want to boot to the XP partition on the new drive
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Jul 17, 2009installed OS X on an external usb hard drive and than booted from it on a PC?
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Aug 28, 2009you had an ISO of Snow Leopard and an external hard drive. Can you install from the ISO instead of burning the ISO to a DVD and install from the DVD?
View 8 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Can't Install SL With Upgraded Hard Drive?
Aug 28, 2009After making sure my Macbook was properly backed up (Time Machine and cloned to external), I put the SL disk in. Waited the 30 minutes for the install and got the language selection window. Then, after clicking continue once or twice I got to the Install Mac OS X window where the hard drive SHOULD have been and that little white box is blank. Disk utility only shows my DVD drive. Not sure what is going on....
Seems that this happens with the original Leopard install disks as well so I am mistaken and this is NOT a SL issue. I did put in a Western Digital 320 gig drive as an upgrade an am pretty sure that I cloned my old drive to it. Wondering if there is a problem with the Mac recognizing the drive or a jumper setting that I need to play with. Apple care has been great and is still on the phone working with me on this.
UPDATE: Installed by putting HDD into firewire enclosure and then back in after install was done. Seems to be working fine now.
OS X :: How To Install SL Onto External Hard Drive
Aug 31, 2009is it possible to install SL onto an external harddrive and make it bootable? usb or firewire? i want to do this before i do an actual upgrade on my internal and play with it for a while.my leopard is running perfect right now so i want to play with SL on an external until some kinks are ironed out.
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Oct 29, 2009I'm in a bind. I want to sell my MacBook Pro, but my dad threw away the installation DVDs that would allow me to erase the hard drive. What's the best option here? I was thinking that I could purchase the upgrade version of Leopard on Ebay since it's cheaper than the full version of snow leopard... but would that allow me to erase the hard drive?
View 14 Replies View RelatedMac Pro :: Install A Backed Up Hard Drive?
Apr 10, 2012I recently had my hard drive expire on my G5 I have a back up of all data and applications that is on an external hard drive.
How do I now install this back on to my G5 and its new hard drive? Is it as simple as drag and drop? Do I have to reinstall all the applications?
I have wondered with all this talk about back ups, how it actually works.
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4)
MacBook Pro :: Possible To Install 1TB Hard Drive
May 22, 2012Can you install a 1tb hard drive into a 15" macbook pro late 2011.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Mac Pro :: Boot Hard Drive Install
Dec 4, 2014I got a Mac Pro (mid2010) with no HD installed. Do I need to do any switch settings on the drive before I put it in the machine?
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Mac Pro, 2.8 QCX / 3X1G (MC560LL/A)
OS X :: 10.4 Dvd From My Macbook To Install On My External Hard Drive
Feb 5, 2009is there anyway I can use my OS X 10.4 dvd from my macbook to install on my external hard drive and then run it on an older mac? if so how can I do this?
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Apr 15, 2009It is a B&W G3 Desktop rev 1 350 mhz 1GB with 6GB Quantum startup volume with 9.2.2, and an aCard, Maxtor 120GB that is going to have Tiger on it.
Two OSs on Two Hard Drives and one OS on each hard drive on one apple desktop.
The hard drive is connected and the Apple System Profiler on 9.2.2 6GB startup volume detects the aCard and the Hard Drive, but when I select which hard drive to install, there is the original hard drive, and nothing else.
How do I install 10.4 on the Maxtor Hard Drive? Is there a key combination that I have to hold down while it is starting up?
