Reinstalled Snow Leopard but ejected my external drive before this. Then, when done, plugged back in via USB as my usual custom....and Time Machine still shows up, but the External Seagate drive does not. I made sure that in Finder/Preferences that the external disc box as others was checked. I tried a different cord, and different port. I opened up Disc Utility and the External HD's partioned Time Machine is available but the other part, now renamed something else (a default name from manufacturer?) is greyed out and I cannot touch it.
Any thoughts? Should i now go to the boot disc of Snow Leopard? Not sure why TM shows but the rest does not.
posted by chicaboom
on Mar 31, 2013 -
11 answers
Need advice on how to update an older MacBook Pro with a new hard drive. I have a late-2008 MacBook Pro: 2.53 GHz, 320GB hard drive, 8GM RAM (4GB in two slots). My drive is getting full and I don't have the cash at the moment for a brand new laptop. Should I replace the optical drive with a SSD? Or just upgrade the regular hard drive with a new one with 750GB or 1TB?
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posted by barnone
on Nov 23, 2012 -
15 answers
I like to keep my home office incredibly devoid of machine noise. To that end, other than my sound system (where I choose the noise), my workstation consists of 1.) A Mac mini running Lion Server on Raid 0 3.5" drives (2 x 500GB) and 2.)A Lacie quadra 1TB drive doing Firewire 800 Time Machine backups every hour (I put up with the Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, every hour without being annoyed). I need more storage, but don't want to increase the (lack of) noise factor...
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posted by Rafaelloello
on May 14, 2012 -
12 answers
How do I format an external hard drive so that it can be used on both a PC and a Mac ... DUMMIES version ?
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posted by lobstah
on Nov 9, 2010 -
23 answers
For a work project, I need to utilize a "business card cd" to download a camera driver. I'm using a Macbook, whose slot drive can't deal with an irregularly shaped CD. Help? (Minor snowflake details inside.)
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posted by (The Rt Hon.) MP
on Oct 11, 2010 -
13 answers
I dropped my external hard drive—badly—but it's still working in every way I can think of. How worried should I be that it will still fail?
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posted by cloudburst
on Feb 20, 2010 -
6 answers
Great MeFites, I come bearing but a humble request. I bought a MacBook Pro about six months before Leopard was released. When it finally came out, I installed it on a partition on an external drive, which I would boot from (because OS X is awesome like that, amirite?) so I could test out all my apps. Now I'm ready to commit to Leopard full-time - what's the best way to go about transplanting my Leopard partition?
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posted by indiewizard
on Aug 18, 2008 -
6 answers
I'm looking for some best practice advice in moving my iTunes music and my iPhoto images off my local hard drive. The 160GB drive on my Macbook is about full. I know I can use a USB/Firewire/Network-attached external hard drive, but has anyone had luck using a service such as Amazon's S3 for this. I know if works fine for storing the files, but how usable is it to actually 'get' the files?
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posted by namith
on Apr 9, 2008 -
4 answers
What kind of transfer speeds should I be expecting from my new external Firewire 800 drive?
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posted by Venadium
on Jan 29, 2008 -
10 answers
I have an external hard drive on my Christmas list. I'd like to make the shopping easy on them by giving specific choices. I've done some searching (here and via Gooooogle) but I need that extra oomph from the genius that is the hive mind.
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posted by Epsilon-minus semi moron
on Dec 9, 2007 -
12 answers
Will attaching an external Firewire drive to my G4 Mac Mini make a big difference to booting speeds and application loading times?
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posted by salmacis
on Nov 20, 2007 -
11 answers
When using an external hard-drive with a Mac, is a speed advantage gained by using a drive formatted with HFS+ (over FAT32/etc.)? And while I'm asking...
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posted by wavejumper
on Oct 29, 2007 -
11 answers
I have a Mac laptop, which replaced my PC which I used for many years.....I recently found out that there is some files and such on my PC that I need to take of my computer and store onto my new external hard drive....Yes, I should of did this before hand....
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posted by TwilightKid
on Sep 20, 2007 -
12 answers
What do I need to know about hard drive enclosures? My computer (PC) died this morning and I want to pull out the 2 hard drives and use them as external drives for my new Mac. I don't know if they're FAT32 or NTFS. I don't know if they're IDE or SATA. How do I find out? Do I need to? A little background on my old PC. It was one of the first P4 3.0 PCs with hyperthreading technology. I've had it for ~4 years
posted by smithmac_99
on Aug 28, 2007 -
13 answers
Can/should I re-use the enclosure for a hard drive I have outgrown as a housing for a new hard drive, or should I just buy new? Either way, what should I be buying?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Jun 2, 2007 -
7 answers
Is there a way to reuse an apple powerbook g4 battery to power a macbook pro? I know that it doesn't fit, but I'm hoping there is some kind of external pack that can accept and charge a powerbook battery but which can power a macbook pro. Any ideas?
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posted by jwiener
on Apr 5, 2007 -
5 answers
Is there any way to get my western digital external hard drive to properly display the disappeared files & folders on it so that I can back them up?
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posted by pantufla
on Mar 30, 2007 -
7 answers
OSXFileSharingFilter: I have a friend who's trying to make himself a great file server off an old iBook - and has hit a snag involving a MyBook external hard drive. The problem makes no sense to me, and my Google-fu as failed me once again.
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posted by plaidrabbit
on Mar 11, 2007 -
7 answers
Why can I use a usb drive interchangeably between my Mac and PC, but not an external drive?
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posted by horsemuth
on Jan 11, 2007 -
8 answers
How do I configure a 2.5" 60 gig usb external drive to boot Windows XP on a PC as well as be able to boot Mac OS X 10.4 on an Intel MacBook?
posted by h2
on Oct 10, 2006 -
4 answers
I have a Mac, my friend has a PC, we want to share music with an external hard drive. However, upon connecting the hard drive to his PC we discovered that the hard drive is formatted for a Mac, so we can't access the drive without reformatting and losing all the files. Is there a program that retrieves info without having to reformat?
posted by MNDZ
on Aug 25, 2006 -
4 answers
iTunesFilter. How can I have iTune "see" tracks already present on my external drive? OS 10.4.2
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posted by cahlers
on Jan 7, 2006 -
8 answers
I'm having trouble recovering my data from my external HDD after I used Carbon Cloner for Mac 10.4.3.
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posted by SeizeTheDay
on Dec 18, 2005 -
7 answers
Will an IDE DVD Burner "just work" with an iMac G5, if put in an external drive enclosure, and plugged in via Firewire or USB 2.0?
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posted by teece
on Dec 10, 2005 -
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