OS X :: Snow Leopard: External Hard Drive Won't Eject When Downloading?
Sep 4, 2009
This is a major issue for me, as I feel like I'm going to end up damaging my hard drive.
I am downloading a legal torrent to my external hard drive, however when I quit Transmission and try to eject my external drive, nothing happens. Snow Leopard doesn't even say it is in use like it is meant to. It just does nothing to eject the drive.
So I end up having to yank the USB plug out.
What gives? It ejects normally as long as I don't download to it.
View 1 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Aug 31, 2009
Is it possible to install Snow Leopard from a disc image on an external drive?
View 7 Replies
View Related
Feb 9, 2012
Looking to upgrade to Lion but want to back up to external hard drive first. I have OS X 10.6. Time capsule vs another plug in? I already have wirless via internet service so is Time capsule worth the $ vs another plug in product?
Info:
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Mar 18, 2012
I have an external hard drive which I first used with my pc. It is formatted for NTFS. Now with my new MBP, I want to back up data, and I am having no luck. The external hard drive is a Verbatim brand, 500GB. On their website FAT32 download dosnt work! I have tried disk utility with no luck. What am I missing?
Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 15, 2009
Supposedly, the external is in use and cannot be ejected, but i don't think it's in use. I've only recently been encountering this problem, and i have no idea why. I've tried quitting every application, but it still claims to be in use.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 16, 2010
I have no id� whats wrong, I want to install Snow Leopard(from the external) on my Core2duo Macbook pro, which is running Leopard at the moment.
I have a Snow Leopard image, and I have used Disc utility to partition the external hard drive (GUID), and I assume the partition and install went well on the external, because in Disc start the external appears as OSX 10.6.
Then the problem: The macbook wont boot from the newly made external it just gives me this sign (of course without the colours).
I have tried to start the macbook normal, and with the option key held down were the external pops up.
I have also tried to chose the external in disc start and reboot with no luck.
I have tried to start the Snow Leopard install(external) within Leopard where the install start fine, but when it reboots and wants to continue the install, the sign appears.
The external harddrive is a 5400rpm 40gb 2,5" which is only powered by the usb port maybe thats the problem?
View 12 Replies
View Related
Feb 13, 2012
How to adapt an external hard drive with Snow leopard (from my sold Mac Pro) to my Mac Book Pro with Lion?I would like to use the external on a permanant basis as it has 2T without deleting a lot of the programs.
Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 17, 2012
Has any one used Disk Repair on an external hard drive? Does it erase everything?
Info:
Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 5, 2012
How to adapt an external hard drive with Snow leopard (from my sold Mac Pro) to my Mac Book Pro with Lion? Any hints on where to start? I would like to use the external on a permanent basis as it has 2T without deleting a lot of the programs.
Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
View 4 Replies
View Related
Apr 30, 2012
When I was copying my picture folder to external hard drive I stopped it now I dont see my orginal files on my computer. Say hidden files
Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jun 4, 2012
I've been having this problem for a while now and its only with images and videos when i try to open any picture or video this msg comes up "The file couldn’t be opened because there is no such file" and i can only open it if i copied the file from my hard drive to my computer.when i open the info for the same picture (one in on the hard drive and one my computer) the one on the hard drive has nothing under "more info" while the one on my computer has a lot of details under "more info" .
Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 12 Replies
View Related
Apr 23, 2009
Supposedly, the external is in use and cannot be ejected, but i don't think it's in use. I've only recently been encountering this problem, and i have no idea why. I've tried quitting every application, but it still claims to be in use.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Oct 31, 2009
I recently bought a new 1TB external seagate hard drive to use as media storage for FCP on my G5 quad.
I brought it home and started it up, partitioned into 3 pieces and then I ejected it.
Now it won't be recognized by my Mac. I feel like I've tried everything. Last night I unplugged the firewire and power cable, then this morning I flicked it on just to see what happened. It worked! I added some files to the drive and ejected it again to see if it would restart. Nothing...
So I waited another 15 minutes and tried again, nothing.
Any idea why the drive seems to turn into a brick after I eject it?
Hopefully it'll work after I wait another few hours again, but that doesn't seem like a working hard drive to me.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 12, 2012
I have installed my hard drive from a previous but terminally I'll iMac that was running Snow Leopard into a Sata to USB enclosure. This is displaying on the desktop of my new iMac running Lion as an external Hard drive,also system preferences sees it as a start up source.My question is , is it safe to restart into Snow leopard without causing a kernel panic and if it does boot will it be fast enough to use as it as a USB drive.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 3, 2012
I went to make a copy of an important drive and accidentally re-formatted it (re-formatted mac journaled, originally mac journaled). The drive contained a bunch of important disk image files which I need to retrieve whole. I'm fairly confident that the files are still there and only the table information got overwritten, as the re-format took about 30 seconds. None of the recovery software I've seen however, can retrieve .dmg files, or such large files (these are up to 32 gb each in size).how I can retrieve these disk image files?
Info:
Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 7, 2014
How do I safely "eject" my 2 TB Seagate external hard drive after backing my Mac Air onto it? I need to update my operating software, never had since I first got it. So I bought the Seagate HD, plugged it in and Time Machine just started running. Now I'd really like to be able to confirm that my entire machine backed up completely, and I think it is best to unplug the hard drive before upgrading the OS...is that right?
Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 8, 2014
I am having problems ejecting the external hard drive that I use to back up my laptop. It is a 2012 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.5. My external hard drive is a WD 2 TB My Book Studio. I use it to back up my laptop with Time Machine. Every time I try to eject my disk now I am told that "The disk (Diskname) wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it." I have tried some solutions like to stop Spotlight from indexing the disk and to try and turn off TimeMachine, but neither of these worked. The only thing that has worked so far is to log out of my user name and log back in with a guest user and eject it from there. This takes up a lot of time and is ultimately not really a sustainable way of working on my computer.
Info:
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 7, 2009
i was wondering if it is possible to install snow leopard without a superdrive or the remote disc utility, but from an external hard disk drive which the snow leopard files have been put on.i have already googled to the end of the world. no success so far.
View 12 Replies
View Related
Mar 7, 2012
I have a HITACHI touro desk 3TB external hard dive connected to my iMac OS X version 10.6.8 Every time i start up the system it stays on a grey screen until I unplug the usb of the external hard drive then the system boots up normally. I have tried connecting different usb cables, plug in to different usb ports, and nothing works. I have other external hard drives and they don't give me any problems. is a pain plugging and unplugging the usb cable.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 1, 2012
the only screen I get is the apple logo then an x, and ? mark. it keeps repeating this. computer was new to a backup on external hard drive. Iphotos were put on external then trashed. about 3200 images. I thought this was slowing it up. the macbook pro it is non functional now. aboaut a 3-4 year old computer.
Info:
iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.0.1
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 28, 2014
Rather than empty the trash which now contains all the data on my external drive I ejected the external drive immediately. When I ejected the WD external hard drive the trash bin no longer displayed any trash inside of it, and when I re-connected the external drive the "trash" (contents of my external drive) appears again in the trash. Is there a way to break the connection which has formed between my data on the external drive, and my trash bin? I was simply trying to eject my external drive as I've done hundreds of times by dragging the icon to the trash/eject area. I don't want to risk losing the data. I restored my computer, and upgraded to Mavericks.
Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 18, 2012
How do you restore your itunes music folder from time machine back-up to an external portable hard drive?
Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 7 Replies
View Related
Jan 18, 2009
I rarely use my superdrive, so I thought it might be more practical to have the button eject my external hard drive(s). Is there a way to do this through OS X or a third party app?
View 8 Replies
View Related
May 24, 2012
Both my daughter and I have an imac and the disc keeps coming out. It takes 1 - 2 hours to get the disc to stay in and be recognized.
Info:
iMac
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 8, 2012
So I bought a 2tb external drive to save space on my main drive - I copied all my movies and have been dropping a bunch of mini dv tapes onto it - but when I open the drive none of them show up
When I get info in disk utility I get one that shows I have avaialble 1.99TB of 2 TB - and right below it says 890 MB are used - don't get it
Tried the disk utility and it says they are working fine .... repair did not seem to do anything
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 8 Replies
View Related
Apr 15, 2012
My backup external hard drive hasn't work since I installed Snow Leopard. Bad:( I am still learning about my MAC and would just like to re-format the hard dive and set everything up again. I want to upgrade to Lion but can't untill I backup what I.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 14, 2010
Just updated to 10.6 from 10.4, and one of the first things I notice is that it keeps spinning up my three external harddrives at actions that should not set them in use, like starting an application or opening the trash. It seems pretty random, though I'm suspecting it has something to do with mdworker, quicklookd or both. If anyone knows of a solution that doesn't involve unmounting the harddrives, do tell.
View 11 Replies
View Related
Feb 8, 2008
Can Tiger or Leopard server be installed on an external hard drive?
View 7 Replies
View Related
May 21, 2012
in mac book air how can we use external hard drive as storage of actual hdd.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 11, 2012
I am looking at getting an external hard drive ...but before that, someone suggested i could use the second internal hard drive...but how do i find out if i do?If i don't, can someone recommend a good external hard drive?
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
View 2 Replies
View Related
