Ok, so I've posted about this problem several times before, but I now stumbled (again) on this thread: [URL]
There seems to be a solution, but I have no idea how to remove this (I do have an external WD HDD). I just don't find anything related to Western Digital.
I was surprised yesterday to find that holding down option key during restart did NOT bring up the Startup Manager screen.Usign Lion, wireless Appple Keyboard and external HD connected with FireWire. Is the isue the wireless keyboard? The Firewire connected drive?I was able to go to System Preferences and choose my startup volume but I much prefer the more temporary state pressing option key when rebooting to choose which volume for startup
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MacbookPro (Unibody) 2.8 Ghz 4 Gig Ram; 24, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Hubby'siMac 20" 2009 ,10.6.6. 2 Gig RAM
I installed a Virtual Drive a while ago, and now I can't get rid of it. An icon sits in the title bar and a Disk is present in Disk Utility. How can I remove these?
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I installed a Virtual Drive a while ago, and now I can't get rid of it. An icon sits in the title bar and a Disk is present in Disk Utility. How can I remove these?
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Mac mini (Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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PowerMac, Mac OS 9.2.x, Apple SuperDrive G3 Desktop
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Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 2011 model, 15 inch 2.2 GHz 8GB RAM
So I decided to go through with a clean install of Lion, since my MacBook is filled with unorganized junk and I just felt like getting a fresh start (I've also had connectivity problems with Airport, although it hasn't really bothered me much since I don't mind an old school network cable).I formatted a bootable USB thumb drive with the Lion OS .dmg file, restarted the computer while holding the alt button and selected to boot from the USB. The screen then showed the regular boot screen (whitish background with a grey Apple logo in the middle and a spinning loading icon right beneath the logo). After about 20 seconds, the Apple logo was replaced with a grey stop sign (a circle with a line straight across) and the loading icon kept spinning.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have issues w/ one of the partitions on my hard drive. Can I remove one (of two) w/o erasing the entire disk?Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iPad2, iOS 7.0.4,
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I currently have about 143 Gb of memory taken up on my internal hard drive as Backup. Â
At least this is what I see when I go to About This Mac / StorageÂ
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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)
