hard disk

After dealing with this problem several years ago, I thought it had been left far behind. But I recently got a new Toshiba 3TB HD and hooked it up to my server running High Sierra (SSD, 16 GB RAM, 2012) Did not look closely at what Disk Utility was doing, but chose to initialize it in APFS as...

Hi, I'm turning in a 2011 iMac and wanted to erase the hard drive first but Disk Utility won't let click 'erase', the only options it lets me have are 'partition' and 'first aid'. I updated to the newest OS and ran First Aid hoping that would solve it but still isn't working. Does anyone have...

hello! I am attempting to connect 2 MacBook pros via a thunderbolt cable, in order to run a data recovery on one of the MacBooks. Ie: a host computer (mine) the target mode computer (my sister’s MacBook) with the intention to load hers onto mine as an external HD to scan using third party...

I was stopping in at Aldi, a German-owned semi-supermarket chain, and they have a center aisle where they offer spot specials on all kinds of non-grocery items. They were selling Toshiba Canvio Basics USB 3.0 portable hard drives (1.0 TB) for only $49. I grabbed the last one. My question: I'm...

Has anyone else had a problem with This? I upgraded to High Sierra and it wouldn’t recognise this drive until I switched to a usb cable. Any ideas what might be wrong?

I thought I would come to this thread to ask. I purchased a new 2017 iMac, spec wise, it has 3.5GHz Intel core i5 CPU, Radeon Pro 575, 8GB RAM and 1TB fusion drive, so it's the mid configuration out of three available stock options. I've noticed this issue on my outgoing late 2015 iMac with...

Hi, I just recently found my old 30GB iPod Video. I replaced the HDD when I bought it because I bought it second hand with a damaged hard drive (many dead sectors and skipping songs). It was working well but then started to fail to boot (sad iPod icon) and I just abandoned it as smartphones...

Hi there, I've tried every fix i know, and combed through countless forums to try and find a related problem, to no avail. So here I am reaching out to the community for help. Thank you in advance! Here's the beef: I bought I preowned 13" MBP mid2012 about a year ago. It has aftermarket SSD...

Hi everyone! I had some problems my macbook pro didn't load, the colored wheel was loading and nothing, so the service made a Hard disk scan and formatted it. I had some info backed up, and some not, all my photos are lost, and I am really desperate to have them back! Is it possible? I read...

I have an iMac7,1 (aluminium, the older thicker one), and a 5,1 Mac Pro. I've moved on from my iMac because it wasn't powerful enough, but I'd still want to keep its contents. Yes, I've moved the easy files to the Pro ages ago but the iMac contains some project files that are a sum of endless...

I've got over 100gb of available iCloud storage and my Mac is nearly full. So I moved some of my large video files to iCloud to free up space on my Mac. The problem is that the files are still stored locally on my Mac! Is there any way to store the files only on iCloud so I can free up space on...

I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my existing hard drive to a new larger one, and got 4 errors for 'bad files/bad spots' on the source drive. Funny thing is that HD Utility says 'Hey, dude. Nothing's wrong here'. Is there a utility that can do a 'surface scan' on the drive and see if there are...

A search seems to mostly bring up guides on how to move the iTunes library with migration assistant or otherwise restore it into a default location, but since I don't store things in the default location, it turned out to be a bit harder to find resolutions. Over the years, I have done so much...

In disk utility it says they are internal hard disks. I have to check the box "Hard disks" in the finder preferences in order for them to show up on the desktop. When on the desktop they have the same icon as the "Macintosh HD" Hard disk instead of the orange external hard drive icon. How can I...

I was having boot issues where I couldn't boot into OSX. Thought the hard drive was bad. So I installed OSX on a flash drive, booted with that drive and used Diskwarrior to save my files. I purchased a new hard drive and tried 100 different times to format the drive using disk utility. It would...

2012 MacBook Pro 13" NON-Retina. The computer has been running dreadfully slow on 5400RPM HDD so I decided to upgrade to SSD. I installed the SSD; however, The system won't recognize the drive. I tried another drive, and still no luck. Makes me wonder if the seriously slow performance and the...

Maybe this has been discussed before but I need a specific answer.. I have a Macbook Pro (early 2011) version. The internal HDD seems to be slow in performance and I've been suggested to replace it with a SSD. Did some searching in various forums and sites. Thing is I need a better performance...