disk utility

Hi, I have a 2tb Seagate External HDD divided into two 1tb expansions for backups and external storage, respectively. As of a few days ago I have been able to mount and access the external storage partition; however the backup partition does not mount. As a last ditch effort I'm considering...

I just bought a brand new mid 2015 MacBook Pro with a 1TB drive. I just started using it today and have barely done anything on it yet. I have attempted to partition the drive in half using Disk Utility. How long should this normally take? It has been almost an hour and it seems to have...

Hello Everybody, I am new to the Forum...think ist will be fun... So my Problem: I had windows 10 on an Bootcamp Partition...working Fine no Problems...but recently I decided to remove it since I wasn't really using it. So I tried removing it with Bootcamp Assistant...but the Assistant have me...

Just installed a Toshiba X300 4TB in my MacPro. Partitioned and erased in Apple's Disk Utility. Why does it display different info (at the bottom) for this drive as compared to my other 3 drives? Why the difference in the info that is displayed? Is anything wrong with these Toshiba drives or...

How? This article says yes, using Disk Utility. Select your sparse image in the left sidebar, select File:Change password. Here's the thing, When the sparse image is mounted, change password is grayed out. And when I unmount the sparse image, it no longer appears in the left sidebar to be...

Our medical office has several Macs including a rarely used Windows VM via VMWare Fusion on one machine and a couple of chromebooks. We prefer to do most of our work on the Macs. We need to send large PDFs of medical records from our online EMR to other offices occasionally. If these are...

I have a 15" MacBook Pro mid-2010, running Sierra 10.12.1. I use Safari and Mail. Processor: 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 288 MB Recently I've experienced more and more beach ball spinning, sluggish behavior (slow to open programs, windows...

I have a hard drive with one partition on it named 'WINDOWS' I have it formatted as FAT and Master Boot Record. When trying to restore it with a Windows 7 iso it says restore process has failed and I get this from the 'More details' section in Disk Utility Validating target... Validating...

Hi Guys, I had Windows installed via bootcamp, and decided to remove it using the Bootcamp Assistant however the following error popped up. I immediately googled it, and people were saying to go to Disk Utility and remove the windows partition and resize the Mac OS partition but that's where...

Hi guys, Got a serious problem. My external WD 1TB hard drive had 3 partitions, One major at (800GB) and the other two occupying the remaining space. I also had my time machine set up on this major partition (named AJ's Mac) Aj's Mac Aj Mixed Aj Windows - Somehow yesterday afternoon , Aj's Mac...

I have a SATA hard drive that I connect to my Macbook using a USB-SATA cable. Everything used to work fine, before I cloned my OSX to the external HDD, and used Diskutility to restore recovery partition. Then I formatted the external HDD using (parted) on Linux, doing these instructions: >...

Hi everyone, I finally became so annoyed by the little notification telling me to update to sierra that I finally stopped binge watching doctor who and hit install. I seriously wish I hadn't at this point. This was last night, I figured, okay, click install, let it reboot while you're making...

I resized my bootcamp partition using the minitool partition wizard (I've later discovered this wasn't the correct way to do it, I know) and now the bootcamp partition does not show up in OS X, and I can't mount it. Also, in disk utility, the 100GB that I added to the bootcamp partition is...

Some weird hard drive issue I've noticed in the past few weeks. After I ran a disk utility check on my hard drive, the system reported incorrect block counts related to files I just deleted. I ran the repair feature of disk utility and it successfully repaired the volume. I ran another disk...

Hello, I really hope you can help a newbie! I have two internal hard drives on my ancient Mac pro 2008. One I want to keep with Yosemite, but the other I want to reinstall Snow Leopard on, so i can run FCP 7 without the problems I have running it with Yosemite. I have erased the drive, so there...

I'm using a 2TB Samsung (Model: HD204UI) 3.5 inch hard drive in a Sharkoon QuickPort Duo USB 3 dock, and most of the time it works fine, it's fast, no problems. I use it to back up another external drive with a little app called Backup Buddy, so it's not the end of the world if it dies. I just...

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Hi. I've got an external hard drive (Toshiba) that I've been using for storage for maybe two years now. It's been working perfectly and I've got it on HFS+. As of today I've been unable to use it with my iMac (2015, 27"). I cannot browse it as it doesn't show up in Finder etc, although I can...

Hi, I have an MPB13 with a 256GB SSD that I'm backing up to an external drive and to a Linux server using Time Machine. The server used to have just a bit more space than the SSD, around 270GB. I just increased that space to 480GB. I wiped the old backup (still have that historical data on the...

Hi Guys, Ive tried booting in safe mode, verbose mode, repairing the disk (first aid) within disk utility and nothing. It used to be that the computer would get to the end of the startup progress bar and then shut down. Now it's opening the terminal upon every start and nothing seems to be...