External drive creates "phantom" drives inside built in HD.
Has this happened to anyone else? My External storage drive (Maxtor 250GB One-touch) has somehow created 3-4 other "phantom" drives in my build in HD. Basically when I download something directly into my External, it sometimes will create a separate HD and store it into my internal HD, eating away my free space on the internal. This wouldn't be a problem, however, I can't seem to locate the "fake" drives ANYWHERE! I can access them when attempting to open a file, but there's no way I can delete the drives themselves. I know this sounds really stupid, but somehow it's happened and about 5-10 GBs of my internal HD is being taken up by these "phantom" drives that I can't seem to locate. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Hi, Adam, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Your post sure does sound strange, but that may only be a product of the way you're describing what you see. Can you identify a particular downloadable file that has behaved this way for you, so I can have a look and download it for myself?
My suspicion is that you're downloading .dmg files, which are disk images. [Read about disk image file formats here.] When you double-click a .dmg file's icon, the file is decompressed into a "virtual disk" that is mounted on your desktop. Double-clicking the icon of that "disk" shows you its contents, just as if it were a floppy disk, CD, hard drive or flash drive. What is really throwing you, however, is the fact that the real disk space occupied by those files on the virtual disk is always on your startup volume, not some other volume such as your external drive. This is true even if the original .dmg file resides on another volume. As the .dmg is expanded, its decompressed contents are written to the startup volume, not to the volume where the .dmg is located.
You can free up that space on your internal drive by "ejecting" the virtual disks that appear on your desktop. And you can then free it up on the external drive by trashing the .dmg files and emptying the Trash. If you try to trash the .dmgs while the virtual disks are still mounted on the desktop, you'll be told they are in use and can't be trashed. You must "eject" the virtual disks first.
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button 4765 0
processor 25153 0
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vboxpci 15059 0
vboxnetflt 17700 0
vboxnetadp 18547 0
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mbcache 9155 1 ext4
jbd2 82948 1 ext4
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cdrom 35191 1 sr_mod
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ata_generic 3434 0
pata_acpi 3579 0
hid_generic 1217 0
usbhid 41250 0
hid 93052 2 hid_generic,usbhid
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libps2 4571 1 atkbd
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ehci_pci 4152 0
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ehci_hcd 64619 1 ehci_pci
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libahci 21772 1 ahci
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In the case of a Mac, it can read/write APM (Apple Partition Map), GUID and FAT (an old MS-DOS scheme) drives. However, it can only read NTFS drives, and NTFS is what Windows typically uses. Most likely, this drive of yours is NTFS. (You can tell for sure by selecting the drive in Disk Utility - not the volume, with the familiar name, the drive, right above it with a name that includes the size - and looking in the info at the bottom of the DU window.)
So, your Mac can't write to that drive at all, even though it can read it. Although there is software that can give your Mac the ability to write to that drive, it will never work with the Mac's built-in backup software (Time Machine), which requires that the backup drive be GUID. That may not be an issue, as TM is far from the only backup software out there. Something like [Carbon Copy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com> or SuperDuper may be able to work with that drive, given software that lets you write to NTFS.
Whether or not you ultimately end up making this drive work for backup of your Mac, note that it is important that you have multiple backups of any data you don't want to lose. So, those images need to be stored in at least one other place (preferably two or more). That given, you may want to repartition that drive with a more Mac-friendly scheme after you've gotten some backups of those images made. (Assuming, of course, that you're no longer working with Windows... if that's not the case, keeping a Windows backup on that drive would probably be wise.)
See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/backups> for more on backup strategies in general. -
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After last system update, my firewire external mobil disk hard drive is no longer recognized. Any solutions?
Why does MacOS go backwards... gets worse over time?Thought you could use this info about getting FireWire to work! I have had no trouble with any update Apple puts out (the Combo update is what I normally choose). Are you running 9.2 like your specs. say? You are in the Tiger forum, so I'll assume you haven't updated your Macs specs.
First, you should always Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before and after any update; I would do that now. If you installed your update with FireWire plugged in, your Mac may not recognize it anymore.
Try resetting your FireWire ports by disconnecting all FW devices, shut down your Mac and unplug it from AC power (wall socket) for 30 minutes. plug it back in and try FW.
If that did'nt work, download the combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try. Yours may be the 10.4.5 Combo update. Others reading, download the Combo that applies to your system.
If that still did'nt get it Zap the PRAM. While restarting Mac hold down the following key combo Command-Option-P-R. Keep holding those keys down till you hear the second start-up chime, then release.
For those of you with Macs that are not PowerBooks or iBooks, a bad internal battery can cause FireWire to not be recognized, so make sure it's good!
Good Luck!
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Hi,
I'm going to be purchasing a Mac Book Pro once leopard is launched and I'm wanting to get an external hard drive to back up using Time Machine. Now, I'm wanting to set this up through a wireless router so that a can make my backups without having to remember to connect every so often.
Does anybody know if Time Machine works via NAS/Ethernet as the Tech Spec of Time Machine just mentions USB and Firewire? I presume it will work, as it would seem a little daft if it doesn't.
Following on from that, does anybody have any recommendations for external NAS/ethernet hard drives? I was wanting something from 250GB to 500GB. I have seen this one -
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4J9D&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=ext ernalhard+driveethernet&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=50473
And this one -
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128482
Any help is very much appreciated!Yes, networked drives, servers, etc., will work as a Time Machine target -- all it needs is a folder it can write to. I'll leave the drive recommendation to someone else.
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Time Machine only shows the current copy of the file I am trying to restore. There is none of the time machine backup histories shown. I am running OSX 10.7.5. I see the backup files on my external Time Machine hard drive in the Backups.backupdb folder.
Time Machine does show the history of my Macintosh HD, but when I try to navigate to the folder I wish to restore the backup history disappears. I've been searching for answers and I have not found one that works for me.Time Machine only shows the current copy of the file I am trying to restore. There is none of the time machine backup histories shown. I am running OSX 10.7.5. I see the backup files on my external Time Machine hard drive in the Backups.backupdb folder.
Time Machine does show the history of my Macintosh HD, but when I try to navigate to the folder I wish to restore the backup history disappears. I've been searching for answers and I have not found one that works for me. -
I want to Connect my Mac Mini as a Slave to a Mac pro Server while at the same time using the Mac mini's thunderbolt ports peripherals ( ie monitor, Sound Card, Hard drives) Creating a poor man's new mac Pro. Can this be Done?
Well, I really would love the new unreleased mac pro however , I'm not sure of the expected cost , Everyone speculates from $3,000 to $8,000, in which I may have to wait a while to purchase.
To the point .... I want fully functional thunderbolt ports to be on the current mac pro's .... wonder if anyone had workarounds yet?... or could I chain the the current mac pro to a mac mini to make that happen?
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