Choosing A Hard Drive

Are there any specifications for choosing a new hard drive? Here is the hard drive I am looking at:
Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM Ultra Series Hard Drive
I have a 2GHZ Macbook, first edition.
Thanks!

I don't know because you didn't provide the model number. If it's a WD Scorpio WD2500BEVS then it will work, but that drive is not a 7200 RPM drive. WD doesn't make a large notebook drive that runs at 7200 RPM, so I would assume whatever you are looking at isn't a notebook drive. As I said before a notebook drive will be 2.5" wide and about 9.5 mm high. Read the specifications for whatever product you look at. If it isn't SATA and it's not 2.5" wide it won't work.

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Hello edjhsu,
Unless the drive is in a format that isn't compatible with Time Machine, the files will not be overrwitten. However it is typically a better idea to keep your files and your backup separate, especially since files on the Time Machine drive will not be backed up by Time Machine.
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Cheers,
Allen

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depending on which model of G5 and OS installed will depend on whether a key command will work
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Downloaded Mountain Lion from App Store, but it says by disk is locked and won't let me choose the hard drive for installation

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Your welcome!
You should always have and keep an up to date backup.
Sounds like you need something a little stronger than Disk Utility. At this point I have no way of knowing if Disk Warrior can or will help.
Depends..!
If you do format and install, then Yes it will.
If you reinstall OS X, then No it will not.
Problem is that according to the Disk Utility message, I don't think that you will be able to install either 10.6 or 10.8.
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Help me choose a hard drive

I have an early dual processor 2.0 G5. I am using two Maxtor 500 GB drives in a RAID configuration. I have been experiencing a lot of data loss, for example entire iTunes albums disappearing. Disc utiltiy finds problems every time it runs, thinking the drives are going bad. Might be because even in RAID 0 I only have about 50GB of free space. I want to replace them both with 1TB or 1.5TB. Looking at the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151
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Never let a 465GB drive get below 10%.
Reformat every year.
Run Disk Warrior regularly.
Make sure your memory isn't writing garbage.
I would still stay away from Seagate, unless buying from OWC which updates firmware if necessary.
These are my two favorites for now (can't afford the 300GB WD VelociRaptor).
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
- these are quieter, fast, and cheap $76 ea. I have four of those along with a couple WD Black Caviars.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD1001FALS/
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd-terabyte-1tb,2077-7.html
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http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/3-5-hard-drive-charts/Average-Read-Transfer-P erformance,658.html

Choosing a hard drive enclosure for iBook

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The Rosewill is exactly the one I bought. The shipping was $4.99, more than the enclosure!
It went great.
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You just plug the drive into the enclosure plug, then plug the USB cable (which they supplied) into both the enclosure and your computer. It immediately mounted on my iMac and I got to work (see below).
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Can I choose which hard drives the guest account has access to?

I have a Mac pro with 3 hard drives, the operating system is on one and private documents on another and the third one is a backup time machine device. If I enable a guest account so my housemate can use my mac can I restrict his access to the hard drive with my private documents on it? And if so how can I do this?
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Start with http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172

How to "choose" external hard drive

I have searched several of the internal to external HD discussions but do not know what to do when the external hard dricve does not show up so i can choose it.
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is there a way that I can do this and continue on my video seamlessly
thanks

The reason why I was asking is that when an external drive is attached it should show up on your desktop. Then from FCE you simply navigate to the drive on your desktop to choose it on your scratch disk, not go through disk utilities. It seems to me that something might be wrong with your drive if it is not showing up.
When you connect it, does it show up in Disk Utility? If so, how is the drive formatted?
And last of all, What do you mean "Time Machine used to show up on my desktop"? Time Machine is an application. Do you mean that the external drive with the Time Machine symbol used to show up on your desktop?

Final Cut Pro Chooses The Hard Drive?

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I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive.

I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive. I've followed every possible instruction on every which website. The problem is when I boot to Install disc, I am unable to choose which hard drive I'd like to install the OS on. It says that it is unable to Install and automatically takes me to Restore and suggests that I restore to Time Machine backups. Any and all help is appreciated.

lovinlife5959,
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Internal Hard Drive Backup + External Hard Drive Backup

Hi everyone and thanks for your attention.
My question is about Backup for two different hard disk.
I've got an internal 500 gb hard disk and a 4 tb external hard disk and my computer is a Macbook pro 15 Unibody 10.6.8.
I need daily (or better hourly) back up for the internal and the external. On the internal I've got system and applications, on the external my work project folders.
My solution at the moment are two other hard disk raid mounted as backup drives. They form together 5tb back up space. I'm using time machine, so it manage my internal 500 gb disk and my external 4tb disk together.
Today I had to recover my system from Time Machine. The app is recovering the documents, but I have a doubt. Before starting recovering I had to choose the hard drive where to recover the system. I had to decide between the internal and the external, and I've chosen the internal, because the OS was installed there.
Will Time Machine put the files, that were on the internal drive, in the internal drive and the ones that were on the external on the external?
My complete back up is 2.4 tb so my 500 gb won't surely be enough.
Moreover. I'm assuming that is so much better to divide the back up. One backup system for the internal and one for the external. It seems to me that my version of Time Machine (10.6.8) does not allow to assign different back up drive for different is use drive. Eg. an external drive to use for the internal drive and another external drive for the external drive in use.
What about next Time Machine versions?
Or maybe would be better to use Time Machine for the internal drive with an external drive as back up, and the use an another application such as Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the external drive to another different external drive.
To be more clear, the solution I'd like to have is:
Internal Drive (500 gb) > time machine > External Drive (1tb)
External Drive (4tb) > Carbon Copy Cloner > External Drive (5tb)
Thanks a lot!
Nicola

The best source for those questions, Nicola, is the Pondini Tips Page, and then go to the specific sections of his website which has everything there is to know about Time Machine.

Back-up / Retrieve Files from an external hard drive that doesn't appear in Devices

Someone please help!
I am going to write the "history" from my disk utility repair here so that other's who copy and paste into search may find it:
(PLEASE SCROLL 13 ROWS DOWN)
Verify and Repair volume “Your Hard Drive Name”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Keys out of order
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
The volume could not be repaired.
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Ok. I would really love to reformat this disk, but I have stuff on here from film school that I CAN NOT lose
Question:
How would I go about backing-up the disk if the image doesn't appear under devices? I went to the "Restore" tab/button, but I can not choose the hard drive in the first field. I could have sworn my hard drive was formatted for Mac, but I may have formatted it back to FAT32. I know the disk still functions because when it is powered on, it cycles with/without being connected to my MacPro, but after that, it will only cycle if connected (confirming connection). It does run again when I connect the firewire cable. Here is my equipment:
8-Core MacPro 16GB-Mem RAID
MacOSX 10.6.8 | 2 X 1TB Internal HDD
Aug-2008 15" MacBookPro
(That I used the Maxtor-External with mostly)
DEVICE IN QUESTION
500GB Maxtor One-Touch Plus
FireWire 400 6-pin Connection Bus (2 Ports)
Purchased in Early 2008 from Staples
I can fit the back-up on my 2nd HDD in my MacPro or in my other External:
2 TB G-Technology G-RAID External
1 x eSATA | 2 x FireWire 800 9-pin | 1 x USB 2.0
Self Powered DC-IN
I have had a nightmare searching for answers, so any options you might have would be tremendously helpful. I can't lose the data because I have everything I did during film school on there. That stuff is basically what you pay for when you go to film school, you pay to show what you can do and what equipment you have used. SAVE ME FELLOW APPLE PEOPLE!!!! We COMMAND, as well as CONTROL!
-RaphSai

Get Disk Warrior that will repair the problems without requiring that you reformat the drive - $99.00 on a bootable CD. Will not work on a FAT formatted drive.
You will need to use Drag and Drop to save your files by copying them from the bad drive to a good one.
To reprep the drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

Using Time Machine to back up an iphoto library located on an external hard drive.

I'd like to back up my primary iphoto library that currently exists on an external Simpletech hard-drive. I have a separate WD Passport external hard drive also attached to my iMAC. When I turn on Time Machine, it only seems to allow me to choose one of the two hard-drives to receive the back-up, and automatically excludes the Simpletech where my iphoto library is located from the back-up. Am I missing something?

This is normal. If you wish to back up your Hard Drive with the iPhoto library follow these steps:
Open the time maching preferences in system prferences,
Click options,
Choose the hard drive with your iPhoto library,
Click the - button to remove it frok the list. T
Time machine will now back up all the information on this disk as well as that on your hard drive in the computer to your Time Maching Hard Drive.
Hope this helps!!!

New hard drive ibook g3

I just installed a new, unformatted 40G HD in an Ibook G3 dual USB. With an external drive I am trying to install OS X 10.4 on it. Using the option key at start up I get to the page where I choose the Hard Drive or the Install disk. I choose the install disk, select my language and then agree to the licensing. When I get to the select a destination page, no Hard Drive is shown. What do I need to do to format (or whatever it's called) the drive so I can install OS X?
Thanks
Tom

In order to format the hard drive:
Start up from the Install disc by holding down the c key as the startup chime is ending. Hold down the c key until you see the progress indicator (which looks like a spinning gear).
Select the language and continue. (Do not go further.)
Go to the Utilities menu and open Disk Utility.
Click on the top hard drive icon in the left side panel.
Choose the "Partition" tab in order to format the drive to a single partition.
Click the Options button.
Choose "Apple Partition Map."
Click OK.
Choose to format as one partition.
Name the hard drive by typing the name in the "Name" field.
Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the Volume Format.
Click on the "Partition" button.
Choose Erase tab.
Select the named volume of your hard drive in the left-side panel. (The hard drive icon which appears under the top hard drive icon — the volume you just named.)
Click "Erase."
The hard drive is now ready for the installation of the OS.

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