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hard drive issue

  1. newbtomacs

    hard drive used for time machine backup is not showing content when I downgrade from BigSur to Catalina

    I was running BigSur on a mid 2015 iMac, but realized that I needed to downgrade to Catalina to run a specific program. I bought a WD HDD, used time machine to back up my computer, and then successfully erased my iMac and installed Catalina. However, now I can't see the contents of my WD hard...
  2. J

    Please help! Corrupt External HDD in MSDOS format not mounting osX Catalina after black screen crash, how do I use terminal fsck or diskutil?

    Hello I think my partition map is corrupted? can anyone help with my hard drive and using fsck or similar as disk utility cannot repair and I have tried fsck but need help with the process of it And to see if disk is being held by fsck_msdos or fsck_exfat command - tried ps aux | grep to see...
  3. Z

    iMac Hard Drive Issues

    Hey there. I've got a late 2015 27in Mojave (should be latest 10.X version) iMac whose hard drive may have died so I'm trying to salvage what I can. No currently valid warranty, so here we go. Last week I woke it from sleep on 12/7 and all actions were taking an unnaturally long time to...
    • z3phyreon
    • Thread
    • hard disk failure hard drive issue imac (27" late 2015)
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iMac
  4. dockess22

    Accidentally deleted mounted internal hd from disk utility - need to reinstall OS

    Hi, Had the flashing question mark appear on startup on my 2012 MacBook and tried to erase and start from scratch. I don't know exactly what I did as it's been a few weeks but I did accidentally deleted the internal hd mounted under volumes in disk utility. So now I only see the base volume in...
  5. T

    Tried several new hard drives, new hard drive cables, hard drives won’t show up in disc utility.

    Please help!!!! I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro and it has died on me. At first it crashed, I bought a new cable and it was fine. Then it crashed again. New hard drive. Tried booting it up. It got halfway through the bar on the loading screen and didn’t get any further. Tried restarting it...
    • TiCiKay
    • Thread
    • flashing folder hard drive failure hard drive issue
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  6. Ncaroline

    iMac doesn't recognize new hard drive

    Hopefully somebody here can help me. A few weeks ago my iMac wouldn't turn on anymore and I brought it in. The guy told me that the hard drive is bad and needs to replaced. He wanted to $225. At this point i didnt wanted to spend that money on my iMac mid 2010, so I thought I will give it a shot...
    • Ncaroline
    • Thread
    • hard drive issue imac 2010 sata cable
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iMac
  7. E

    Solved - Mysterious Slow Drive Speed on Mac Mini (tricky one)

    I have a 2012 Mac Mini, it's been slow since I got it (second hand). I recently did a HDD drive swap (as in a few minutes ago) and it's still slow. Parts Computer - 2012 Mac Mini Quad Core (non-server) 8GB Ram 1TB HDD (originally from Apple) I usually keep a drobo connected as well as a...
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