Canvio 1TB drive full

My Canvio 1TB drive is saying that it is full. I only have 6.98 GB of data on my computer, so not sure how this can be unless the drive is rewriting every file every time it backsup instead of overwriting files. What do I do now? How can I delete files to make room for backups. FYI the automatic backup function does not work. I have to manually backup or else there is no record of a backup having taken place. I also tried installing the software upgrade and got an error that the installation location could not be found.

To all having drive full after several backups, the solution to this is to view the size of the image drive on the hard drive. There is a redundancy when doing a full image that will cause multiple images to be saved with essentially the same data. The solution is to delete all images and do a totally new image utllizing the PC Backup option in the menu. I find this is the worst fault of the backup software. I have had no such problem with the file backup. Good luck all in fixing this. Sorry to see that Toshiba has not responded to this issue.

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Canvio 1tb drive wont boot into restore

I have a drive that i bought just to be the backup for allmy laptops, because rebuilding and reinstalling is a pain. Well after 1.5 years it came time to use the restore. However to do an image restore you have to boot to it. The drive is recognized as bootable and the bootstrap goes, but after load BZIMAGE i get nothing but a blinking cursor. SO my question is 2 fold,:
1 is there a copy of the bootable files for the canvio drive? (i cant seem to find it on the toshiba site
2 can I just boot to something else (cd, or other bootable media) and run the restore that way?
thanks for helping

I don't know anything about Toshiba's Canvio drives, but I've never heard of booting from an external drive to restore a backup.
Don't they come with NTI Backup Now EZ software? Doesn't the restore begin with boot from a disc (CD or DVD) that you burned?
NTI Backup Now EZ Frequently Asked Questions
-Jerry

Canvio 1TB - USB connector to drive is horrible, falls out on blink of an eye

I have a Canvio 1TB that I just purchased from Office Max and immediately saw that the connector to the drive was going to be an issue. It is horrible. It falls out even when I don't even touch the drive, and I cannot move the drive _at all_ without the cable falling out. Is there a solution for this or is just the design for these connectors bad from the start?

Jose- I'm not sure how to start a new thread here so I'm piggy backing onto your- I have a HDTC605XK3A1 1Tb portable hard drive that has worked exceptionally well until today. Today the USB connection inside the case broke loose and I could no longer connect the Toshiba USB cable to it. I looked at the jack and the flat connector was wonky and sideways and completely loose. I gave the case a slight shake and it fell inside the case completely loose. I popped the back of the case off and the connector was floating around inside the case, the soldered connections have come loose. It's ironic as I bought a second Canvio 1 Tb harddrive last week to back this one up- now I'm thinking of returning it since the box is still sealed- the connection has always been a weak link and never felt very solid. Is anyone aware if Toshiba can/will fix this (of course it's out of warranty), or if there is a reputable 3rd party repair center that can do it? Sort of in a panic as it's got nearly a full load of data a really need.
Jose- inregard to your lights- the blue one should light up when tou're ina USB 3.0 plug; white when you're in a USB 2.0.

HT1452 I have a Toshiba Canvio 1TB external hard drive on my Mac. I've used it for 4-5 months with no problems, but now cannot add to it (I use it mostly for photo storage) to it. I can still access information previously added. Ideas?

I have a Toshiba Canvio 1TB external hard drive on my Mac. I've used it for 4-5 months with no problems, but now cannot add to it (I use it mostly for photo storage) to it. I can still access information previously added. Ideas?

I cannot find this 300GB "Backup" in the Finder, only in the Storage info when I check "About This Mac".
You are probably using Time Machine to backup your MacBook Pro, right? Then the additional 300 GB could be local Time Machine snapshots. Time Machine will write the hourly backups to the free space on your hard disk, if the backup drive is temporarily not connected. You do not see these local backups in the Finder, and MacOS will delete them, when you make a regular backup to Time Machine, or when you need the space for other data.
See Pondini's page for more explanation: What are Local Snapshots? http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
I have restarted my computer, but the information remains the same. How do I reclaim the use of the 300GB? Why is it showing up as "Backups" when it used to indicate "Photos"? Are my photos safe on the external drive?
You have tested the library on the external drive, and so your photos are save there.
The local TimeMachine snapshot probably now contains a backup of the moved library. Try, if connecting your Time Machine drive will reduce the size of your local Time Machine snapshots.

Should I combine two 1Tb drives into one logical 2Tb drive or use one 1Tb drive for system/apps and move /users to the other 1Tb drive? (I'd like ease of b/u too.)

Hello,
I have two 1Tb drives in my Mini, the first is full and the second one empty. (I've been using the 2nd for Time Machine but the full source from dirve 1 soon has Time Machine complaining.) I am contemplating whether to form one 2Tb logical drive from the two 1Tb drives or segregate their use, i.e. use the first 1Tb drive to hold the system and applications while moving the /users directory tree to the second 1Tb drive?
I'm assuming both are straight forward to do accomplish but have nagging doubts about segregating drive usage, will moving the /users directory tree to the second 1Tb drive:
impact apps which might otherwise expect to see particulat fies and directories in specific user related locations on the system drive;
hinder backing up (by having to setup two separate Time Machine activities)?
Finally, is there a better 3rt option?
Thanks,

Thanks and sorry Allan,
The supplementary questions would arise should I NOT chose to combine the separate drives into a larger logical one but to keep one of the two drives for system/apps and the other for users data... I assumed that segregating drive usagel like this might reult in issues with apps which might expect to see some user directories/files on the same drive as the system/apps. similarly, with two physical drives, I'd be looking to managing separate Time Mchines. (I have a few 2Tb pocket drives for backups.)
Final question - if I do combine into a single logical drive (for system, apps, /users ... the whole lot), would I have any problem getting this logical one working from a Time Machine backup? I ask that this backup was taken from the 1Tb physical drive and now I'd be looking to put it back onto a 2Tb logicl drive.
Thanks,

Can I replace a 1TB drive with a 2TB

I own a first generation Time Capsule with a 1 TB drive (6,106.) The light just started flashing amber and the message with Airport Utility is "Internal Disk Needs Repair." Assuming the drive has gone south, can I replace this 1TB drive with a 2TB one, or is there a BIOS restriction.

It is just time.. the TC were designed to run too hot for the power supply to last.
The fan should be running all the time as indeed they do in the new versions. The supply will be on the edge and in fact what you are experiencing maybe power supply.. it depends.. if yours is Gen1 with 1TB hitachi drive I have yet to see a dead drive.. lots of dead supplies.
If you have Gen2 they changed to WD black.. and lots of the drives are dead.. the typical WD fail 3 spin ups and then nothing. Tell me if you have A1254 or A1302.. from the bottom rubber Mat top line.
New Green drives are lower power consumption but due to their design of spinning down whenever possible they have a bigger motor for start up.. it pulls 2A at 12V and the power supply in the early TC cannot sustain it.
So if you replace disk you really need to replace power supply.
I have a lot of suggestions.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/a-deconstruction-of-routers-and-modem s/apple-time-capsule-repair
And even repair kits.
https://sites.google.com/site/lapastenague/time-capsule-power-supply-repair-kits
But the design is fully explained.. so if you want to DIY you can.
I have had several people come to me after upgrading the hard disk and finding it then didn't work.. due to power supply being on the edge and a replacement with external 12v supply fixes it.
But is it economic.. ?? That is the question.. If you have a Gen1 with an hitachi drive it could be worth it. As the drive could still be good.. pull it out and test it.
Otherwise buy a second hand Gen4 with 2TB drive already in it. They sell for around $180 here if you shop well. A Gen4 is cheaper than power supply plus hard disk repair for a Gen1 or Gen2 and you get 50% faster hard disk access with the same drive... (TC are processor bound and later ones have 50% faster processor) and better wireless. Or get a new TC.. which is a big jump in price but comes with full warranty.

Toshiba Canvio Desktop Drive

After installing my Toshiba Canvio 1tb external hard drive Windows won't boot up. If Iunplug the hard drive it's ok. Can anyone help me fix this issue

If autoruns is not yet permanently disabled in your registry, most likely the backup installer is trying to run 'cause those drives don't come empty. Instead stuff is there. 200meg of it ...Your solution is to press SHIFT as you plug in the drive to stop autorun junk from running. Then, if Windows boots, format the drive to get rid of the stuff you don't need.... If you do plan to use it, and it is visible, you can run the setup file. --------------------- This post really doesn't belong in the Thrive forum but someplace else.
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How do I recover files from a Toshiba Canvio Hard Drive?

I have been backing up my computer with a Toshiba Canvio Hard Drive. My hard drive failed and I had to buy a new computer. I would like to save my data to the new computer, but I don't want to do a complete system backup because it would overwrite my new computer's operating system (or would it?). I would like to save individual files to my new computer. Is it possible to do this?

No way. Doing that would never overwrite you OS at anyhow. You can able to restore files from the backup copy, though you will not be able to restore file one by one.
Alternate way
Try professional recovery software if the above methods didn't help you. Download it from here,
http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Please share if you've any further question than this.
Good Luck!!

LaCie 1TB Drive on it's Death Bed?

Hello all,
I've got a LaCie 1TB drive that I've had now for about 4 years… It's got a little space left on it ~36GB. I can copy files off of it fine but I can't copy files to it, nothing. Not even a single .jpg file without getting the following message
"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data could not be read or written.
(Error code -36)"
I've tried with countless files and copying to and from other drives and using other CPUs but this one drive won't allow files to be copied to it. I've used 3 different drive utilities and each one says that the drive is fine. But it's clearly not.
Here are a few things I think I might have to do but just can't…
1: Buy a new 1TB drive and transfer everything then erase and copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
2: Back up 1TB to DVD-R erase then copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
3: Erase the drive and try to recover the deleted data. (Too risky as the data is needed)
4: Erase the drive and start over. (Unbelievable but…)
5: The drive is 4 years old and should die this year, retire it. (???)
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated. Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup. I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Maximilain

desioner wrote:
Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup.
I don't know if there's any particular "life expectancy" difference for RAID 0, but I do know that for every drive you add, you're that much more likely to lose all your data.
I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Right, because it puts little parts of the files on each drive. RAID 0 is all about speed (and living dangerously). When I was using a lot of RAID 0 drives, I only put stuff on them that I felt I could lose. And sometimes I did lose it.
charlie

My mac air says hard drive full and 90% is full of 'other' which I cant work out what 'other' is as i Have transferred most to my external hard drive

My mac air says hard drive full and 90% is full of 'other' which I cant work out what 'other' is as i Have transferred most to my external hard drive.
Do you know how I can tell how large each file is taking up and what my 'other' category could be?
thanks

Initial easy steps to gain disk space:
- Delete all files in the Downloads folder.
Empty the Trash.
- Start iPhoto.
Empty its trash.
Restart.
Backup:
Run a Time Machine (or other) backup since you are about to delete and move files and you may need to recover from any inadvertent mistakes or decisions. You will need one external hard drive for your Time Machine (or other) backup and a second if you plan to offload some files. (See suggestions for where to purchase hard drives at the end of this message.)
For more about backups:
Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Most commonly used backup methods:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
Deleting files:
Then use the free application OmniDiskSweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/more to explore your volume in descending order by size so you can attack the problem from the top down, deleting the largest unwanted files first. Delete with caution and do not delete any system files. Remember to empty the trash after trashing the files.
Additional reference on freeing disk space:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Offloading files:
Consider moving some of the no-often-used large files or directories to an external disk. Use ODS again to find them. This will be at least your second hard drive. Your first one(s) is/are for your Time Machine (or other) backup(s). Do not offload files onto a Time Machine disk.
Format the second drive as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Using OWS to find large files/folders and copy them from the system drive to the external hard drive and delete them from your internal drive.
Then  > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options… > Remove the offload HD name from the exclusions list.
Now both your system disk and your external offload disk will be backed up onto your Time Machine disk.
From: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
To move your iTunes Music folder to another disk or partition:
To change the location of your iTunes Music folder, carefully follow the instructions in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document "iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder."Additional information can be found in iTunes Help.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thexlab.com/105/ 00000849.html
Laptop users may want to consider having two iTunes libraries: a small library of current favorites on their computer, while their complete library resides on an external hard drive. Utilities like iTunes Library Manager enable you to easily have multiple iTunes libraries you can use with your account. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7689/itunes-library-manager
To move your iPhoto Library folder to another disk or partition:
To move the iPhoto Library folder to a new location, employ the instructions in the AppleCare Knowledge Base document from http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506 corresponding to the version of iPhoto you are using. Additional information can be found in iPhoto Help.
Laptop users may want to consider having two iPhoto libraries: a small library of current, favorite photographs on their computer, while their complete library, or archives of older photos are saved on an external hard drive. Utilities such as iPhoto Buddy and iPhoto Library Manager enable you to have multiple iPhoto libraries that you can use with your account.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12175/iphoto-buddy
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7158/iphoto-library-manager
Hardware — Bigger disk/SSD:
OWC sells 120, 240 and 480 GB SSD upgrades for MacBook Airs. A 240 GB upgrade costs $265. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/ . If your Mac is under warranty or AppleCare replacing the SSD will void the warranty.

I've got a late 2009 mac mini with a 320gb hard drive and I want to upgrade it to a 1tb drive or bigger. What HDDs are compatible with my mini?

I've got a late 2009 mac mini with a 320gb hard drive and I want to upgrade it to a 1tb drive or bigger. What HDDs are compatible with my mini?
Because of the price I'm not interested in solid state drives, unless of course you want to send me $1,000.
I've already got external drives but I take my mini back and forth to work and don't want to carry those drives with me.
I'm not interested in buying a laptop. My mini works great so why waste $1,000 or more when I can buy a 1 to 3 TB hdd for under $300 and have exactly what I want. My late 2009 Mac Mini with a large hdd.
I went to Crucial's website and they can't tell me what drives fit my Mac Mini. That's where I got my ram (8GB). I'm ONLY interested in name brand quality HDDs.

The limiting factor in your 2009 mini is the max 9.5mm drive thickness.
One of the largest capacity 2.5" drives that meets this criteria is the HGST (formerly Hitachi) at 1.5GB
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Warning on Gen2 1TB drive failing

I have seen a few posts and now within a couple of weeks have seen the 1TB drive A1302 fail.
The drive is a WD black caviar.. I am sure posting this warning will not help many people.. other than posthumously..
These drives seem to be failing in large numbers now.. they don't all seem to fail in the same way but it is the first time a drive in the TC has become generally faulty. So if the TC goes bad it is likely that both power supply and hard drive are shot.
Store any files you want to keep off the TC today.. now.. do not wait.
The cost of fixing both TC power supply and hard disk makes it uneconomic. Just buy a new one. IMHO!

The failures you are reporting refer to problems with data contained on the drive, where Disk Utility is unable to repair the associated files or directories so that they may be read correctlty. The drive hardware is probably still working fine & not permanently damaged by the corrupted data. In most cases, if you reformat the affected drive (after recovering what files you can) you will then be able to re-use the drive. If Disk Utility is able to reformat the affected drive, the your drive has not been "bricked."
Since you described multiple failures with various drives, it's important to rule out possible electrical problems which can result from damaged/defective USB cables, or under-powered drives. Any AirPort-attached hard drive should have its own power supply, and not depend on the AirPort or a USB hub to provide spin-up power. You should also be aware that Apple has received multiple reports of similar symptoms — corrupted data and directories on USB attached drives attached to AirPort Base Stations.
Since Apple is in the very early stages of recognizing an issue with the file handling firmware embedded in AirPort Exremes (and possibly Time Capsules) you can help the effort to identify & fix this problem by reporting your issue to Apple Wireless Technical Support.
Meanwhile, run Disk Utility frequently on any USB drives used with your AirPort — particularly if you're making frequent changes to the drives' contents. (FYI — DiskWarrior appears able to detect/correct minor disruptions to a drive's contents before Disk Utility is able to spot them.) For the time being, vigilance is probably your best defence …

Moving music to new 1TB drive

I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I have a 500GB and a 250GB external. I'm wanting to move the music from my 250GB to a new 1TB. I want to use the 1TB and the 500GB daisy-chained together and then erase everything from my 250GB and just use that for home recording projects. I'm kind of afraid to attempt this as I don't want to lose the music from the 250. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks in advance.

So my "iTunes" folder is on my mac HD. I just want to move the music from one external to my new 1TB external. So I guess iTunes is pulling stuff from my mac hd, my 500GB and my 250GB drives.
OK, then if it's scattered among a number of folders, here's what you have to do:
iTunes: Moving Your iTunes Music Folder
Again, don't delete the tracks from their old locations until you've confirmed that everything is working correctly from the 1TB drive. And IMPORTANT: do not delete the iTunes folder or the preference files it contains from your boot hard drive; delete ONLY the tracks themselves (i.e. the contents of the old iTunes Music folders).
I'd also strongly advise that before you start moving things around, you make a backup of any content purchased from the iTunes Store or that would otherwise be difficult to replace, just in case something goes wrong.
Regards.

Installing Solaris 10 on X2100 with 1TB drive

I am trying to install the latest Solaris 10 (X86) on an Sun X2100. The installation fires up fine until it tries to set up the hard drive and then it fails with the following error message:
FILE SYSTEM CREATION FAILED
COULD NOT CHECK OR CREATRE SYSTEM CRITICAL FILE SYSTEMS
The installation then stops and I go to the shell. The drive in the machine is a 1TB Western Digital SATA. Has anyone ever run into this problem or know a way to troubleshoot this? I have 10 machines that I need to configure. One would think that Solaris would easily install on a Sun box.
Thanks for any help!

They have an onboard RAID controller but when I looked at the BIOS setting it is not enabled to use RAID. I have 2 1TB drives in the machine and the install throughs the error I mentioned above. It appears to have partitioned the disk and set up the slices though. I know this because I can swap the drives and look at the backup drive after the install fails via format and it looks like it has the correct label on it and it.
Thanks for any help!

"startup drive full" error - help

I have gotten a "startup drive full" error a couple of times while using Microsoft Word. It usually occurs when I am trying to save something. My drives are no where near full. What is causing this? How do I fix it?

One of the reasons (when one exists) for a startup drive full message,
could be if the computer has several temporary files and virtual memory
files on the hard disk drive; this could happen if you have insufficient
installed chip RAM and the computer is using HDD free-space as RAM.
And if you are multi-tasking in Mac OS X, there may be a point where
the drive is fully in-use. The utility "Activity Monitor" could tell you what
is happening in the system at different intervals and perhaps you could
tell what is running in there and using a lot of virtual memory; and also
what that utility says is going on elsewhere at the same time.
You may have to boot the computer from the Installer disc and use
the version of Disk Utility on that (in the Installer's menubar is where
you find options, other than running the installer on that disc) to run
'repair disk.' There also may be some caches and other files on the
drive which are not properly being cleared after quitting applications
or after saving works in progress.
A variety of maintenance tasks can be performed to help the Mac
run better; and maybe these are overdue. I use an easy way out
and do not boot into the single user or other modes to do house-
keeping chores in OS X 10; the software (runs free) I choose to
have do these, on occasion, is called OnyX and is a download
from Titanium Software online. An easy search, to get there and
see the correct download for the OSX version your machine runs.
The OnyX 'automation' selection has several check-boxes and
a few times a year, I run all of the options shown there; otherwise
I only run the default set, and then have the utility automatically
restart itself afterward. There are settings in the OnyX preferences.
Not sure what else may be going on in the computer's hard disk
drive; but to use the boot/install disc's Disk Utility to 'repair disk'
and also to verify or see the status of SMART, may tell you if
the hard disk drive is starting to fail. (Although it could stop work-
ing and not say it was failing; checking anyway, is easy enough.)
If you have a third-party disk utility such as Drive Genius or
maybe DiskWarrior, these may be able to check and repair
some aspects of the hard disk drive's files. Some of these
tools are better at some tasks than others; and so I am not
sure which one(s) are best at specific jobs. Each is a bit
different and so there are times where having more than one
could be very handy... if one knew what they did, and when
to use one over another third-party disk utility. (I don't!)
At some point, it is very handy to have an externally enclosed
FireWire hard disk drive, and be knowledgeable and practiced
in making bootable clones of the computer's hard disk drive
and the contents there in. This can give you great backups
with the ability to clone the complete disk image back as it
was, but on to a repaired or low-level reformatted HDD. I use
a free-running utility to clone, Carbon Copy Cloner.
Hopefully a fix as simple as using the Disk Utility found in
the installer (hold C key on startup with disc in optical drive)
and do not launch the installer, use Disk Utility from menubar;
and 'repair disk' may help. If there is a defect in the Hard Disk
Drive (HDD) a repair may help; or a more invasive approach
may be required, to include other tools in the Disk Utility, which
could totally erase all your stuff plus the OS from that hard drive.
Not sure how much experience you have in any of this; so at
this point...
Good luck & happy computing!

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