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When running Microsoft Windows 7 using Boot Camp, Windows 7 may not detect the hard drive of an attached computer that is in Target Disk Mode.
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14 Oct 2009This update addresses intermittent hard drive related pauses reported by a small number of customers.
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Portables , Macbook Pro Last week we reported on a thread at Apple’s Discussion Boards about an issue affecting some 15″ MacBook Pros. Specifically, their hard drives seem to be spinning down and even parking themselves at inappropriate times, like in the middle of a task. It’s understandably frustrating, as that would slow things down considerably and offer unwanted “quality time” with the Marble of Doom . According to CNET , Apple is aware of the issue and working on a fix right now. There’s no word on when it will become available, so affected owners should just hold tight for a few more days
Filed under: Hardware , Macbook Pro There’s a thread on Apple’s Discussion Boards this week regarding trouble with the latest MacBook Pros with 7200RPM drives. Specifically, the machines are clicking (most users report the click as coming from the drive’s location) followed by a beep that’s, as far as anyone can tell, not coming from the speaker, as demonstrated above. It’s quiet in the video, so crank up the volume and listen closely. Finally, its occurrence is unpredictable. No clear answer has been reached yet, but Other World Computing (OWC) shared some relevant information with MacNN : “The issue may be with Seagate’s Momentus 7200.4 G-Force hard drives …
In: IT| Mac Support| Tutorials| iPod| iTunes
26 Jun 2009You can use your iPod as a drive (hard drive or flash drive depending on your iPod) to store and transfer data files on (also known as disk mode). Tip: To transfer music files to iPod, use iTunes. You can’t see the songs iTunes copies to your iPod in the Finder or My Computer/Computer
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25 Jun 2009Cloning your Mac’s hard drive as part of your backup strategy? Then make sure that Spotlight isn’t active on that drive before you start cloning it
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25 Jun 2009If you erase your designated Time Machine backup disk, or if your external hard drive has a sleep function that does not wake for Time Machine backups, Time Machine may alert you that “The backup volume could not be found” and backups may not be made.
You say you have a hard drive full of sensitive data that you’d like to see gone, gone gone? Here’s how (with bonus ultra-violent erasure technique).
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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