OS X :: Working With External HD On Different Computer?
Sep 3, 2009
My macbook needs to go to the mac doctor, and I am thinking about using the clone on my external hooked up to my husband's macbook to get mail, download bank files, etc. Questions: Will I need to boot to the external to do my "business", or can I just access the drive from his desktop and do what I need to do? Also, will want to update my iTunes (podcasts) to my iPod while my computer is gone. Can I do that from the external clone as well? Seems I'd need to boot from the external to do that, or my iPod would see his iTunes?
My plan has been to get a good Super Duper backup right before I take the MB in, use the clone while it is gone, and when it comes back, just do a SD clone from the external to the internal. Anyone see any problems with my plan?
I have a WD external hard drive with 2 partitions, a FAT32 partition and a normally Mac-formatted partition. I use the Mac formatted partition for Time Machine and the FAT32 partition for miscellaneous storage. My Mac is a February 2008 2.4GHz MacBook.
Everything was going fine until about September until my hard drive suddenly wouldn't connect to my Mac or my friend's computer running XP. He suggested that I take the drive out of the enclosure and he lent me a separate SATA-USB adapter to use. This worked, and I was using it for a while. However, my friend soon needed his adapter back, so I retried the original enclosure and it started working again.
This was about a month ago, and it has been working fine ever since until yesterday, when I accidentally knocked the power cord out while it was performing a Time Machine backup (stupid, I know). I think i finally killed the original enclosure because it won't even spin anymore, but when I borrowed my friends adapter again, it worked fine on his computer (it recognized the FAT32 partition, but obviously not the Mac-formatted partition). However, It still will not load on my Mac. I tried it on several different computer running both Vista and XP - including my boot-camped XP partition - and it worked fine on all of them. I have not been able to try it on any other Macs.
I will report back when I get the opportunity to try my hard drive it on another Mac (probably tomorrow afternoon), but I wanted to post now in case anyone's seen this problem before.
My computer keeps stalling and rotating beachball won't allow me to move forwards or backwards. Ultimately I need to turn off the power. I have tried resetting the PRAM and SMC but neither seems to help for too long.
Tried to restart didn't work. Light is on, but nothing makes noise or anyhting. Been charging it for hours so it has power. Tested the chord on my ther computer and it worked
I have tried a few thinsgs to try and get it to work including reseating the cables and that has not helped. As the title says, the back light works as i can see the screen getting blacker/greyer. Also the external output works as well. I'm not sure what to do at this point because I can't find information on an inverter board for the LCD, only the LED backlight think this could be an issue with the video card 8600M or is my LCD dead and I need a new one?
On a side note I have taken very good care of this computer, no drops, making sure the HDD is parked before moving, having it in a protective case, etc. The only difference is that I gave this to my sister to use and after a few days it died. (seems everything she gets that's electronic dies these days, meaning I probably shouldn't give her anything that has a circuit board in it....)
the ODD fan of my computer is not working anymore. is it risky to keep on using my imac till i take it to the apple service? by the way, there is a strange "clicking sound" coming from the back of my computer. i did the AHT and it said the hardware is ok but the odd fan. the error code is 4MOT/1/40000002: ODD-0
The sound no longer works on my computer, however when I check in system preferences it says everthing is fime, also the microphone still works. All I did was un plug my headphones from the computer. I did go to system preferences and changed it back to internal speakers, but that did nothing.
I got to work yesterday and opened my iBook. Nothing. So I turned it on. Nothing. I checked the battery and it was dead. I let it charge all day it did not charge. I put a new battery in it today. Before I put the battery in it had 3 bars of life left. As soon as I put it in it went down to 1. It still won't power on. Any ideas? All of my info for work is on this computer. I am getting a Macbook soon so is there any way to transfer info from a non working computer?
If I were to connect a Mac Pro to a TV via the DVI output and using a DVI to HDMI cable, could I still work on the computer at the same time while the movie is being played on the TV. I want to rip my whole DVD collection to the HDD.
I know that I could do this with AppleTV but I want to be able to go directly from the Mac to the TV and be able to play movies in 1080 vs. 720.
Also, am I right to assume that the video quality would be the same through the Mac as opposed to a DVD player?
after my computer had been broken I sent it to apple, but somehow I can not login and I am using a guestuser right now. I am pretty sure that I am using writing in the right password but it does not let me in. How can I login again?
I should make sure "Built-in Output" is selected in my sound settings, but that option doesn't even appear. It's as if my computer forgot it had built in speakers...
My computer is connected to my wifi, and all other devices are working, but my macbook air is not sending any i messages, connecting to the internet, or the itunes store
I have a broken Macbook which by the genius bar staff. My machine can be repair for £300. I feel it not necessary
to pay that amount so I am selling the machine for its part etc. However, in order for me to sell the item on ebay, I will need which OS it's running on and all the other details needed to list this item.
My questions is; how to find the details about my computer (I cannot switch on the machine).
Every time my computer goes to sleep, the connection to my magic mouse is lost. I have to press the button on the bottom and get the Bluetooth to find my mouse again everytime, but then it works fine. The battery level is at 93%. It loses the mouse connection every time the computer goes to sleep. I even set the mouse as a favorite, and it did nothing.
I am having a problem with my external hard drive. I was using it the other day working with some of the files on it and it shut down my computer a couple times. The second time it did this, after the computer shut down, I would turn it on and then it would go right back off until I removed the hard drive and turned it on and it was fine. Now my computer won't recognize the hard drive at all when i plug it in. The light on the hard drive will come on but it will not show up on my computer.
The hard drive is a WD 1TB Passport and it still works fine with every other computer I plug it into, PCs and macs both.I have a late 2008 13" Aluminum Macbook
I always end up staring at my computer screen too long and loose track of time(Photo Editing), which I don't think is healthy. Does anyone know any software for Macs that will monitor how long I've been working and remind me to take breaks, etc?
OX 10.4.11. Screen freezes when I stop working on computer. Usually can happen anywhere from 5 minutes to hours after I leave and come back. It doesnt happen when I'm working on computer and it doesnt seem to matter what programs I leave open. Ive tried zapping the pram...disabling the screensaver..I did an archive and install of the operating sysem (actually surprized myself by doing that one ) Ive run a disk utility and hardware check.. My computer is running a lot faster now, but it still has frozen up and needs to be restarted by holding down the button for a few seconds.
I just purchased a used G4 Laptop 1.67 with OS Leopard on it. I have an external HD which has a clone from another computer I wish to transfer to my new computer. This clone of course is a startup. The OS on my clone is Tiger and it is from another G4 Laptop. Any problem with just hooking up my external HD to the new computer and cloning it to the new computer?
I bought an Airport Extreme 1 GB. The internal drive is able to be seen and mapped by a Windows computer. I have an external USB 350 GB drive that I connected. I went into the utility and configured it for sharing but I can not connect to it. I enabled file sharing, chose disk password, set it, and after updating the internal is accessible but the external is not seen by my Windows computer. The external is viewable within the Disks area of the utility.
I'm booting an iMac from an external hard drive. WoW is on that hard drive and I was wondering since WoW has a reputation of slowing down computers, if I play while on the external drive will it still degrade performance of the computer when it's booted off the internal hard drive? ANd if it does, how noticeable will it be?
I am on Snow Leopard btw. I have a 1 TB external HD that I'm using with Firewire 400 and I've noticed that it seems to slow down my computer. Like for instance I'll boot up my computer and it will take forever for it to start up. Then, as soon as I turn off my drive it boots up immediately. Or I'll use Spotlight and then basically it gets stuck with a spinning beach ball and as soon as I turn off the drive everything is fast again.
I was copying over a SD card via the SD Card read to my internal hard drive. Half way through it froze. And it wouldn't let me do anything. I removed the memory card and all I or was a spinning rainbow circle. So I powered off the MacBook manually (holding power button). When it started up again it came to the apple logo. And froze. So like a idiot I manually powered off the MacBook again. Next time it booted it showed me the stop sign.I tried to boot from cd (holding C while laptop starts), the disk spins but ends up hanging on a White screen. Now I don't mind reinstalling OS x over it. But I just need one folder from It. Is there anyway I can connect this MacBook to my mac pro browse the MacBook internal hard drive and copy over the folder I need?
Just set up a new Mac Pro (8-core) and plugged in my old M-Audio powered speakers (about 10yrs old but still going strong!). I use a mini-jack splitter cable that outputs stereo RCA to the speakers, plugged into the speaker port on the nMP. There is a constant, low hum coming out of one of the speakers; it sounds a little like CPU noise and it is NOT affected by volume settings from the Mac or the speaker knob. It's the right-side speaker which is unpowered, connected to the left unit via speaker wire (the left unit has the power switch and audio inputs and is not affected.)
I've tried moving the speaker wire up and away from power cables (two Dell monitors directly next to the speakers) but that doesn't work; it doesn't sound quite like a DC hum anyway though. The speakers aren't heavily shielded (they usually pick up interference from an iPhone placed too close) so maybe it's always going to be an issue. I used to have them plugged into a 2006 Mac Pro via an analog mixer which I've removed from the chain.
I have had this issue for years now on all my Macs.
It happens to me with my current iMac intel, which has 2 firewire drives connected to it (one 800 and one 400).
When the firewire drives randomly spin it, it sometimes makes my iMac stall a bit. Like the beach-ball will sometimes even come up, but otherwise it just like it freezes a split second while it's bringing the hard drive back up the speed.
Why does it do that, and is there anyway around it?
It makes using an external drive frustrating and hurts the beautiful mac experience.
I have 4GB of memory, very fast computer otherwise, so it's not that.
I was wondering if it's possible to send video to another computer using a network, and use it as an external screen. Now the biggest problem: The slave computer has to be a windows computer.
We have LCD screens with built-in computer, and it's windows. It's used for a lighting show.
