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disk utility error

  1. Z

    MacBook Pro 2015 Crashing (hash mismatch)

    my mac has been crashing everytime I start it up (about two minutes after logging on) I had an error pop up that said hash mismatch so I came to disk utility and it gave me the error that is in the images that I'll attach tried to clean install and at 2 minutes left it gives me an error, and...
  2. K

    New M1 MacBook Pros will not format the SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives

    I bought two of the SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives (that are rated at up to 2000 MB/s) and tried to format them using Disk Utility in the latest MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip running OS Monterey 12.0.1. They both would not format. I worked with Apple tech support and we...
  3. V

    Do you have Time Machine HD failures with Big Sur 11.5.2?

    Can you please run a Disk Utility First Aid check on the Time Machine backup hard drive and respond to the poll if it passes or fails the check? This is for users of Big Sur 11.5.2 and you use spinning disk hard drive(s) for TM backups. Please also indicate the type of Mac you have (e.g., 2013...
  4. tovviyah

    Can't log in to icloud, unknown error occurred

    Hello everyone, So I recently changed the Hard Drive cable of my 13-inch Macbook Pro (Mid 2012), because it wasn't detecting the SSD anymore. But now I'm faced with a new problem. I can't seem to log in to any of my internet accounts including icloud, Onedrive, and google. icloud will be able...
  5. S

    Disk Utility crashed while partitioning, can't boot into or restore MacOS

    Hi all, I have an iMac 14,1 with a 1TB HDD, formerly running Mojave. I was creating a partition for a Linux installation when Disk Utility crashed. I reopened it to find that the partition for Linux exists but is in APFS format, and my MacOS partition has been renamed to disk0s2 with 'unknown'...
  6. M

    Sudden and Intermittent Slow Write Speeds To WD Elements 10 Tb HD

    Hi I have a newish 10 Tb WD Elements external desktop HD. It has been in use less than 2 weeks and isn't always on. I have filled about 3 Tb of it. I had it on for a few hours yesterday and was surprised that the light was still blinking and there were occasional sounds from it when not in use...
  7. M

    How To Tell If Spotlight Is Indexing External HDD In Catalina

    Hi I have a newish 10 Tb WD Elements external desktop HD. It has been in use less than 2 weeks and isn't always on. I have filled about 3 Tb of it. I had it on for a few hours yesterday and was surprised that the light was still blinking and there were occasional sounds from it when not in use...
  8. Martina.mora

    Need help backing up files

    Hi, i'm in trouble! My imac takes forever to boot. I started holding cmnd + r and use disk utility to run first aids but it can't solve the issue. Now i need to back up all my files and later restore to 0 my hard drive, this is what i undestand so far. (Sorry for my bad english) does anybody...