I have issues w/ one of the partitions on my hard drive. Can I remove one (of two) w/o erasing the entire disk?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iPad2, iOS 7.0.4,
I use a 250GB external HD for most of my working files. It has five equal partitions. In one of the partitions--Cedar Mill (see attached images) --another partition (CM News) shows up in Finder. Inside CM News is another copy of itself ad infinitum...
I am reluctant to delete them without knowing what I'm doing. How they got this way.
I haven't noticed any particular problems, except possibly slow search times for opening/finding files...
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Hi. What do I select for # of partitions on a MacBook Pro 15 inch? I haven't started yet, but I was hoping to understand what this means before I take it apart.
Any other advice before I start? I saw a good YouTube video that seems to make is easy to do.
I've just ordered a Seagate 500gb portable hard drive. I want it for backing up my 250gb Macbook, storing films and also for exchanging files between computers (Mac and Windows).
After reading various posts on the forums I'm planning on making 3 partitions:
1) 300gb for time machine backup. Mac OS X Extended (Is this the same format as HFS+ just a different name?)
2) 15gb for exchanging files. FAT32
3) The remainder for storing films. Mac OS X Extended.
Have i got these formats correct and are they suitable?
Also, i read that FAT32 is fragile and data can get wiped off it. If this did happen to the FAT32 partition, would it jsut affect that partition or could it damage data in all the partitions?
I have still another EHD/TM question and I can't quite figure out where to ask for the help I need.
I have a Mac Pro OS 10.5.8 with 2 internal drives and a large EHD that I was using solely for Time Machine Back Up. After a recent conversation with tech support at Apple, I've decided that I should have still one more full copy of stuff that is critical to me--my original photographs. I currently only have the backup copy on TM.
So, I want to take my large LaCie EHD and partition it. I want to store things as follows:
1. Internal HD #1-primary HD containing all data except original photos
2. Internal HD #2-HD that contains nothing but original photos
3. EHD (LaCie):
a. Partition #1: Second copy of original photos
b. Partition #2: Time Machine back up of HD #1 and HD #2.
It seems as if it is easy enough to do the partition but I'm wondering if there is a way to get my original photos to go into both HD #2 and Partition #1 of the EHD at the same time that I import them via a card reader.
If not, I'm wondering how I can set this up so that I don't have to remember to copy the photos from HD #2 to the EHD. Do I have to use another back up program? If so, any recommendations? Will using another program mess up Time Machine? What am I not thinking about?
I know this isn't "Windows" per say, but I couldn't really find a closer forum to post in. I installed Ubuntu following their online guide using Bootcamp and such because I was curious. Now, it's not really working as much as I would like it to, and I'd like to remove the 90 or so Gigabytes I gave to Ubuntu in my partition.
I tried using the Disk Utility, and it always gets stuck on "preparing to remove partition". I waited for an hour and a half once, and it still had not progressed. I also tried using the Disk Utility off of my Mac OS X installation disk and saw the same failures and results. What can I do to remove this plaguing Ubuntu partition off of my hard drive for good?
How does one go about using an external HD for backing up on both Mac and Windows machines?
I would ideally like to use Time Machine on the mac side. I have a 1TB Western Digital. Plenty of space, because i dont have that much stuff to back up.
Is it possible to merge two partitions at Mac hard drive without re-installing the OS.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I just booted into Windows and saw that there were some Windows Updates available and it asked me to reboot the computer however it failed to boot into Windows. So I restarted and tried to boot into OS X instead, but that didn't work either.
So I put in the OS X install DVD and checked out Disk Utility. Turned out that all my partitions where screwed up. There were 3 partitions listed as Windows_ldm, with incorrect sizes (I had 4 partitions before).
Long story short: I'm now reinstalling OS X and I lost everything I had on the drive, I think. I'll try some restore software once I've gotten OS X installed.
A little pissed right now... How the heck can Windows F up the entire drive?
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Can a coy of Maverick be downloaded to a flash drive or external hard drive?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 4 GB RAM, Win XP Pro-Boot Camp
Can I create 2 partitions into portable hard disk where the first formatted as HFS+ to use only for Time Machine source, the latter formatted as exFAT/FAT32 to use to swap file from OSX/Windows ?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), i7, 3 TB HD, 8 gb RAM
All mac os x mavericks partitions lost even recovery partition!! what should i do to reinstall mavericks again?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
