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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...

Hey all, So I'm in the process of switching files from my family's mac to my laptop. We have an external Seagate 1TB drive that has a bunch of my stuff on it. It's formatted for Mac but I thought it was also able to switch to PC as well (didn't do research and this is in fact not true) so I go...

Do you have a fix for this particular scenario: 1) Two partitions boot drive, the second one formatted exFAT 2) Relocate Home directory to Partition2 using the default way: System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Advanced Options -> Home directory 3) Install Skype 4) At first launch Skype...

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...

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...

Hello! I've just tried to install Windows 10 on my Macbook with a 32GB USB using Bootcamp. Everything was fine until I came to the part where I need to pick the partition where I want to install my Windows 10 and of course I've picked the Bootcamp partition but actually I couldn't click on...

On my '09 Mac Pro I've been using a 120GB SSD for my scratch disk and plan to put it, along with my 250GB SSD boot drive, on a SATA III PCIe 2 controller card which splits 4 SATA channels between 2 SATA and 2 eSATA ports. My other HDs can stay on the system SATA II, which means I won't really be...

Hi everyone. So I have an iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I'm currently updated to OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. My internal hard drive recently failed and I replaced it with a Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD. After replacing the hard drive and reinstalling the OS everything was...

Hey all, so I am not really a mac guy but got my mom a macmini a while ago ... unfortunately there is still programs that aren't available for mac osx 10.8.4 (can you believe it?!?!) so I had to set her up with Bootcamp and install Win7 on it. Now after that Win7 saw the MacOSHD but couldn't...

Sorry, I know I'm asking a lot of question, but, then again, that's how one can learn, right? With the iMac 1TB Fusion Drive, can I wipe it and create partitions (I'm using an external SSD for the OS). Then, I'd use one partition for Time Machine backups, and the other for cloned backups. The...

Hello I am currently trying to make the partition Odin which is at 2TB to fill the entire 4TB disk and its free space, which resulted from me erasing its original second one. However, it does not seem that I am able to expand the partition so that it is taking up the 4TB because dragging on the...

Hey guys. i'm currently using bootcamp right now but I am unable to boot into the Mac OS of my hard drive. I have a 2010 Macbook Pro using a Momentus XT Hybrid SSD, which was installed in it 5 years ago. I hope it's not a symptom of a hard drive failure. my bootcamp side works as expected. I am...

Hi, I have OS X El Capitan version 10.11.4 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", 2014). I am using mac for a month. Everything is great except one thing: CASE-SENSITIVE type of boot disk. Steam is ok, I can install it on another partition and other apps too, but Adobe soft can't. I would like to...

Hi all, I have questions about two scenarios -computer with one physical hard drive partitioned into three volumes. part1- boot mavericks - FileVault2 turned on part2- empty - encrypted via right click part3- empty - encrypted via right click When I encrypt volumes by right clicking I can...

I created two partitions on an ssd using OS 10.8.5 Disk Utility (13) and note that there are four extra small partitions which add up to about 580 mb were also created in the process. One is reported as type EFI System Partition (about 210MB) in Drive Genius 3, while the other three are...

So after i installed windows 10, my mac (el captain)reset and when i tried setting up windows there was no partition for windows, after going into disk utility i found that the bootcamp partition was non existent, have no idea what to do or to regain the missing space (32 gb)

Hi there. I'm trying to install Linux on my MacBook Air but seem to have fallen at the first hurdle and am unable to partition my disk. I open Disk Utility, I have ~70GB of free space and when I click partition at the top it starts the process. What I then find is that Disk Utility says...

Hello!, So I renamed my a third FAT partition, on my internal SSD drive from "Untitled" to something more professional (because I have clients that work over my shoulder). The partition was intended to be used for bootcamp. I ended up temporarily having to put some files on it. After renaming...

Hi, My school is giving out copies of Windows to students so I jumped on the opportunity seeing as there are some Windows games I've been dying to play. A friend directed me to this article (Method 2) to set up Win10 on my external HDD. However, the only external HDD I have is a 2TB drive that...

Help! My Macbook Pro was restored to factory settings at the Apple Store as it had a few problems. This was fine because i had backed up all my data using an external hard drive with time machine. However I plug in my external hard drive to put all of my files back on my laptop, but the...