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Topic "Disk utility" was discussed 18,512 times on 762 sites in last 3 months
Started 1 day, 2 hours ago (2009-11-26 01:41:00)
by macrookie2009
I have an external hard drive containing wmv files. Can I use the disk utility on my Macbook to duplicate the (windows formatted) drive? I want to give the copy (destination) to someone else to view on a pc computer.
Started 1 day, 16 hours ago (2009-11-25 12:21:00)
by adam-royles
Hi everyone, I am trying to repair my disk so I can install bootcamp, but when I reboot my machine and run disk utility and choose repair disk, it hangs. Does anyone have any ideas ? thanks Adam
Started 1 day, 18 hours ago (2009-11-25 10:16:00)
by CrystalX3D
I have an external hard drive with several partitions. Two of these partitions are a Linux partition and Linux Swap partition. I have (had) the disk setup to boot into linux on my PC. The other partition was a large NTFS that I wanted to reformat into FAT32 so that I could write to it from my mac. I used the erase volume command in Disk Utility to create the FAT32 file system, ...
Started 1 day, 19 hours ago (2009-11-25 09:23:00)
by Hans J. Rieche
I want to scratch the contents of a CD-RW or DVD-RW using tht hard disk utility. But this is impossible, the software indicates 'read only'. Even for a new CD the utility says 'read only'. But in the finder the information for the CD is 'read and write'. What can be the reason? A specific parameter that I by accident set? Or a hardware problem?...
Started 2 days, 21 hours ago (2009-11-24 07:07:00)
by Angela Zou
The other day while I was looking around my Windows XP, I accidentally deleted the Mac partition from Window's Disk Management under Computer Management. I couldn't undo the action so I hurried to the Mac version, which was fine. Then I try to restart in Windows, which couldn't work, not even in Safe Mode. I thought about deleting it through Boot Camp, which I used and spent 30 ...
Started 4 days, 7 hours ago (2009-11-22 21:23:00)
by BallyT
My machine became "slow" (ex.pc users) so I desired to reboot, I closed and shut down then re-started. I then saw a folder with a question mark centre screen. Upon discussion with a fellow Mac user I reboot again, this time with Disk 1 in from original package. This brought up language open (selected english) and then went to disk utilities - I did not continue to do any install etc. ...
Started 4 days, 16 hours ago (2009-11-22 12:12:00)
by kgitto
I restored my 80GB iPod classic with disk utility after i partitioned it to run OSX off of but now itunes wont recognize it. When i unplug it it still runs but it doesnt have any music or videos. i tried restoring it when it was in disk mode with diskutility but im not sure what settings to use right now it is useless and i would love to be able to find a solution to my problem...
Started 5 days, 4 hours ago (2009-11-21 23:58:00)
by Tootzy in Toronto
(I may be a noobie, but I'm a dedicated convert.) I'm running 10.5 on my Acer D150 and loving it. While trying to get Time Machine to work I messed up some file and cannot repair permissions. I'm getting error msgs like "Empty path in "com.apple.repair -permissions.pkg-group" receipt. Cannot run apple installer. I would like to restore the system back to my system backup on (proven) ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-18 09:53:00)
by Bryce Inman
I recently purchased a Western Digital 1 Terabyte "My Book" and started having problems dumping video onto it from Final Cut. On the FCP forum somebody pointed out that I need to make sure my drive was formatted for the Mac (it wasn't). I didn't have much data on the drive, so I just dumped it elsewhere and tried to reformat the drive to Max OS Extended (Jounaled). I think I've ...
Started 3 days, 4 hours ago (2009-11-24 00:03:00)
by asschafer
MW Nerds: need a disk fixing utility try to open my video hard drive in explorer and it says the folder is empty, yet it shows that it has the same occupied space as it did before i ran checkdisk earlier (windows has been freezing, lagging, and generally acting weird lately with no signs of spy/ad/malware or anything) any idears? thanks...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-18 11:41:00)
by rwinterborne
I have an external hd that I removed from a user's Mac workstation (it was fully functional) and I want to attach it to the OSX server. However, after attaching it to the server, I cannot see it in Disk Utility. It does show up under System Profiler under the connection type. I have tried USB and Firewire; I have rebooted the HD and the server. Any thoughts?
Started 6 days, 5 hours ago (2009-11-20 22:40:00)
by gsahli
Try this: sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/[name of the drive goes here] then: sudo chown root:storage /Volumes/[name of the drive goes here] (This is an example of what I use - you have to first create the group storage, and add anyone to it that you want to have access to the disk) (and you may need to add switches -Rf to make all subfolders obey the same permissions) I'm Certain ...
Started 2 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-24 18:42:00)
by Angela Zou
Is this really the only option? The partition I set up for Boot Camp is 80 GB, is there any way that I can do this without wipe out the entire partition? 2009 Mac OS X (10.5.8)...
