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disk utility

  1. wandapec

    Move Jet DriveLite SD card from External to Internal Storage

    I recently purchased a Transcend JetDrive Lite SD card for additional storage. I formatted it as OS X Extended and it shows up as an External drive... The problem with it is that every time my Mac goes in to sleep mode, it ejects it and I get the 'Disk Not Ejected Properly' error. A friend of...
  2. jadot

    Drobo DAS not mounting and Disk Utility won't Launch

    It's there - the Drobo, I mean and the HDD that is passing through is mounting so the cable is fine (FW800 into TB adapter, into iMac). Did utility won't launch, just hangs, and there's no way to get this sucker in my finder.
  3. kcorbbrock

    Resolved Resize Internal SSD

    I recently upgraded my original internal 750GB disk drive to a new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD. Before installing, I cloned the original drive to this new SSD. After install, I realized there was an unallocated amount of free space (209.91GB) that I unintentional partitioned. I've tried to resize...
  4. Gersh66

    Resolved Macintosh HD Volume Repair Help

    Hello everyone, Recently, I've been trying to run bootcamp on my 2011 Macbook Pro. While doing this, I never could get a successful partition for windows due to an error. After following steps to verify and repair my Macintosh HD, I keep receiving an error that "The volume Macintosh HD was...
  5. jeanggi90

    External hard disk issue

    Hey guys I have had some problems with my MBP, so I have made a complete Time Machine Backup on an external hard disk which has 3 partitions on it (2x Mac OS Extended journaled and 1x MS-DOS FAT). After I had erased my build in hd and reinstalled OS X i want to copy the data from the backup...
  6. C

    Erased disk has 57 files, 1.1 gig (4TB drive). OK?

    Is that normal? I erased the drive and I also erased the 1 partition it created. It's formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
  7. A

    Can I repair this external hard drive?

    So my 3 TB hard drive took a fall and now it is clicking, and I got this screen in disk utility: (attached) I already have been to a data recovery place and cannot pay for the service, SO, is there anything I can do? Can I somehow temporarily see the files on the drive and transfer what I can...
  8. mcburney

    trying to create RAID 1 volume called “Backup”

    Hi All I'm trying to setup a mirror RAID on my new LaCie 2Big volume. I've partitioned the volume to two drives (I think) and I have typed in this into terminal: diskutil appleRAID create mirror Backup JHFS+ disk2s2 disk2s3 but I get the following error message: Started RAID operation...
  9. KG101

    Unable to create partitioned drive and install windows.

    Hi, I have been trying for some time to install windows on my late 2013 Imac Yosemite 10.10.5. I originally used bootcamp but when selecting a drive to install windows on I was unable to with the following error message. "Windows could not be installed to this disk, the selected...