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  1. Kenny4556

    Disk Utility (HELP)

    Okay, so first off, I messed up hard. I downloaded Windows 10 to my Mac via Bootcamp. By accident and me being dumb, I deleted Windows off of my mac through the windows side. Now I did backup my mac beforehand, so I was able to reinstall macOS Catalina, but I had to reinstall through Bootcamp...
  2. x13gamer

    2012 Mini boots fine sometimes... Prohibited symbol others

    A 2012 Mac Mini that I have owned since October recently booted with the prohibited symbol. I have tried reinstalling the original software and have tried restoring using recovery mode and it will work for some time and then go back to the same issue a few days later. I ran ETRECheck and got...
  3. B

    New purchase - 512SSD or 2TB Fusion drive?

    Hi Everyone, I have two related questions - I'm torn between getting the 512GB SSD drive and the 2TB Fusion Drive. I think I would prefer the SSD drive but I'm worried about how small it is. I hope to learn how to edit video in Final Cut Pro, and I'm not sure if a faster hard drive is better...
  4. macpeach55

    Installing High Sierra after Splitting a Fusion drive & adding a 2TB SSD

    Hi, I just had my HDD replaced by with an EVO 860 SSD, and intended to use only the Evo & just ignore the 128Gb drive. However the Company who did it re-fused the new Drive with the Apple 128 GB SSD re-creating a Fusion Drive. Unfortunately this produces a drive where you cannot add any...
  5. raulsbd79

    iMac 2017 21.5 return

    Hi everyone, I’m within the 14 days cool off period and I have decided to return my 2017 4K 21.5” 8 Ram 5400rpm iMac to Apple.. It’s my first imac machine and I didn’t know about the differences on hard drives.. My first question is how to backup all my pictures and apps I already had on it...
  6. C

    Restore from Time Machine

    Dear all, I have one 480GB SSD and 1T HDD in my Mac Mini. Previously, the SSD was for booting the Mac Mini, and the 1T HDD was named as "media" and used for storage of photos and mp3. All those files were backup by Time Machine. Recently, I fresh install the Mac OS X El Capitan. The New OS...