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Aug 28, 2009

I have 5 choices and don't know what to choose. I'm formatting a 500 gb internal hard drive. Mac os extended (journaled) is the first choice. Should I choose that?

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now that the refresh is finally here, I've decided to once again attempt to buy a baseline imac...

I tried a couple months back, but they were plagued with issues. One feature that I didn't like was the noisy hard drives:

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I replaced it 3 times...the last 2 being noisy hitachi hard drives...

it seems the western digital drive is the least noisy...the problem is making sure I'm gonna get one...

can I call up apple and ask for a specific hard drive?

I'm tired of rolling the dice on a computer that's going to be in my life for 5+ years...

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Nov 5, 2009

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Googleing this for hours has lead with all kinds of information on how to go to GUID FROM Apple Partition Map but not the other way around. I know GUID is the new hottness.. but this drive will be used exclusively to connect to my XBOX 360 and it supposedly only reads HFS+ when its formatted with Apple Partition Map. (I have tried it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GUID, and the XBOX does NOT recognize it) I do not want to use Fat 32, (I know that that is the other major option) beacuse it limits file size.

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Jan 8, 2009

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May 5, 2009

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Jun 26, 2012

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Jul 19, 2010

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Aside from making me reluctant to travel with this laptop (luckily I have an Air as well, but that does not work for all my needs). On my most recent trip not only did the volume get corrupted, the machine did not recognize the drive, or any drives on the machine (incl. the dvd drive). Only after removing the drive completely, a combination of the boot up key sequences for resetting the machine, and booting off the cd, did I manage to get the machine to eventually recognize the hard drive. I am unable to determine if this is a faulty drive, or a faulty machine. I have run the Apple Hardware Diagnostics which give the all clear - I have nothing to stress test the drive, and I am running out of debug options and patience. Although this laptop is getting "long in the tooth", it still works like a champ (except when it crashes), and my only gripe being its weight.

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Apr 20, 2009

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Nov 22, 2009

I am having issues with formatting my main drive in my Macbook Pro (mid 2009) to install Leopard.

I have booted off of several Leopard and Snow Leopard install discs and attempted to use Disk Utility to format my drive. Everytime I try to format the drive I get one of two errors: 1. input/output error OR 2. Unable to allocate memory.

I have tried using several hard drives.

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Jan 18, 2010

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May 2, 2012

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Oct 2, 2009

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Apr 3, 2009

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My question is whether I can backup all the computers on the network or if the Mac will not be backed up because of the different hard drive formats on the computers.

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Apr 27, 2012

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I have OS X Lion. I recently purchased this Macbook Pro 15" laptop, and I am planning on returning it, to get the newer upgraded laptop, as the store manager said I can do this, since I purchased my laptop within 30 days of the announcement of a new MacBook Pro. I would like to format everything, before I return it back to the store, however, it never came with an installation cd. How can I do this? I have tried ways that I have heard, such as creating a new admin user account and deleting all the other accounts. Also I have erased all the free space using the disk utility section. However, it will not allow me to erase the hard drive. Is there a way to do this without an installation cd?

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Nov 2, 2010

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i'm creating my partitions with disk utility, but i hit a snag when choosing a partition scheme...apparently i cannot choose a different scheme for each partition.

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