Hard Drive Purchases In Canda

Does anyone know of where I can find a replacement hard drive for my Macbook online in Canada? I want to upgrade, but I was looking through the drives at FutureShop.com and none of them seemed to fit my laptop.
Thanks!

Hi ATGDIR,
Yes, there is none on that site that compatible with your macbook requirement.
It should be sata interface, 2.5" / notebook form factor.
Why not try United States online store, and try to choose one with cheaper shipping cost to Canada.
Good Luck.

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Next Hard Drive Purchase...

Hi All,
I've just completed a build and am thinking another hard drive purchase or two is my next best step.
I have a ASUS Saberooth, i7 950, GTX 470, 12GB 1600mhz RAM, Coolermaster HAF 942, a 10,000 rpm 300 GB Velociraptor (Boot Drive), and 2 X 1TB Samsung F3 Drives in a RAID 0.
My question is:
Should I just buy 2 more 1 TB samsungs to put my video output and preview files on?
If so, should I run these in a separate RAID 0, or is my motherboard without a RAID controller good enough to support this?
In addition to being my OS drive and swap file location, is the Velociraptor a place for anything else?
I've looked at the hard drive setup guide, and don't believe it addresses all of my questions, so I'd appreciate any help.
As well, I currently have the CS4 collection and I notice that the only slow down I have is when 2 HD Video tracks overlap... is this something that would be fixed with CS5 and the mercury engine... or would more hard drives in a more robust RAID 0 help out?
Thank you!

The Mini has good speed, but as brody said, the hard drive restricts its performance in some areas.
But I would suggest trying the system for yourself at a local Apple Store (presuming you have one nearby).
I would think someone at the apple store would be willing to install the demo version for you to try.
I would download the demo installer (for Mac) on your windows pc at home and bring it with you (on flash drive or burned to cd/dvd). The demo installer is freely downloaded on adobe's site.

New Hard Drive - purchased iTunes are gone

Recently i had to have my hard drive replaced.. the guys from Best Buy's Geek Squad managed to salvage "my documents," which contained my iTunes music folder. When i transferred all the data to my new hard drive, the only music files that were on there were the ones i had transferred directly from cd.. all of my purchased iTunes are GONE.
Is there a way to get them back? I'm missing about 800 songs!! ..and there's NO WAY i'm paying for them all over again.
Someone PLEASE help!!
Thanks.
Nicole.

If you have the My Music Folder, they should be there in your play list. Are you saying that these songs are not there? I thought that all songs get put into this folder. I would suggest looking again under compilations, etc. Secondly, there are some things that can be done to recover these songs from your iPod, but I don't have any experience in this and have no idea how to recommend that. You might try a Google for some help with this. Finally, buy a second HDD to back up your current HDD. It is absolutely critical. Best of luck!

Hard Drive not detected during installation

Hello everyone,
I am brand new to this Mac Forum, and I am hoping you can assist a colleague of mine who has a Hardware issue with his Mac.
It is a Power Mac G4 and one day he started having issues booting into the MacOS, but after several re-boots it would be okay, and then it didn't want to know at all, so he asked me to take a look at it.
My knowledge of Mac's is fairly basic, but I am familiarish with the Hardware, so I tried installing the Drive on another I.D.E. Cable and channel, re-seated the Memory, but it made no difference. So I assumed it was a dead Hard Drive?
However, he purchased a 120Gb WD (previous one being an 80Gb I.B.M.Deskstar), and I went around to his office to install it - same problem?!
Basically the installation gets as far as agreeing to the Licence Agreement, then we get the dialogue box where you select the destination for the Hard Drive, but there's nothing in there.
My guess is a faulty Motherboard, yet the CD Drive is still detected, obviously, for the boot to take place from the installation disk!?
Is there any BIOS I can access to make sure the Mac is detecting the Hard Drive properly?
Please help if you can, it would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Nathan.

Hello again,
Thanks very much for your replies.
My colleague would be very reluctant to purchase a Controller Card for his Mac, particularly whilst I still have strong suspicious about the Motherboard.
I did follow the link in Rodney Cullings reply, but that isn't quite the issue.
It is a brand new Hard Drive, purchased from Jigsaw, and therefore I would assume unformattted; however we cannot use the Disk Utility to format it because there is no Hard Drive detected in the "Select a destination drive" in the first place!
Hence my question about the B.I.O.S., because in a situation like this on a P.C., the first thing I'd do (if Windows hadn't detected the Hard Drive) is check the B.I.O.S., because if it isn't in there, it's either Jumpers - which I've already tried - or a dead Hard Drive.
I have installed the newer drive in a P.C., and the B.I.O.S. did actually detect it.
So, any other ideas please people?
Many thanks for those supplied so far.
Nathan.
P.S. Am I posting this to the correct Forum?

Please help... External Hard Drive not mounting

Hello, Please help me if you can:
I have all of my data backed up onto a Seagate External Hard Drive, purchased just a few months ago. I just got a new laptop (MacBook Air) and need to get my data off of my hard drive, but it isn't showing up on my Desktop or Finder. It shows up in Disk Utility, but when I ask it to "repair" it says:
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The volume could not be verified completely.
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."
The problem started after I added some data to it - I accidentally unplugged the Drive without Ejecting first. The next time I plugged it in it allowed me to view my files but not add anything else to the Drive, and now when I plug it in it doesn't even appear. I am running Lion.
I would be happy to back up the files as it says, but as it doesn't show up anywhere I can't find the files to access. Can anyone help me find a way to get the files off of the disk, or fix the disk so that it is readable?

Hi, Brian, and welcome to the Discussions!
You might perhaps launch System Profiler (from Applications/Utilities) and see if the device is listed there under the FireWire heading in Hardware Overview.
Can you hear the LaCie spin up when powered on?
You might download the free trial version of Data Rescue II and launch it to see if it recognizes the drive. This software often does when DW or Disk Utility won't. If it does, run a scan with it to see if the data on the volume is viewable.
You can test the FireWire port with another Firewire device, or by hooking up to another Mac via a FW cable and trying to boot into FW Target Disk Mode. Visibly check the port at the Mac end first to insure that there are no bent pins at the connector (so you won't damage another device).
You can try resetting a "dead" FireWire port by shutting down, unplugging the external FireWire devices, and disconnecting the Mac's power cord for thirty minutes or so. Before doing this, run Disk Utility's Repair Permissions process on the startup volume first, to see if that corrects it.
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Installing snow leopard on new hard drive - disc not seen or found

I can't provide too many details right now as my hard drive is out, and I'm trying to reinstall an operating system.
Problem: Installed a new hard drive purchased from reputable repair store. Last installation disc I have is OS X Snow Leopard. When I get to the point to choose where to install it, it is not seeing the new hard drive. I've double checked that the wires/bar connecting the actual hard drive are snug. Could there be another problem? Something to do with Lion? I've read several forums, but to no avail....
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If the repair store installed the drive, I'd take it back and let them make it work. Take your Snow Leopard DVD also.

Problems sharing external hard drives with Lion

I have 2 external hard drives connected to my imac. I had no problem sharing and accessing my external drives on other computers (pc & mac). Recently I just upgraded my mac os to Lion and since I am having problems accessing my external drives on my PC (windows 7).
On my PC in the shared folder I can see the external drive folders but I am getting an error code when I try to open them. I have no problem accessing my imac folders on my PC, just my external drive folders.
I would like some help because it would be nice to access them wirelessly on my PC without having to disconnect them from my iMac.
Rome.

My external hard drive was formatted in the FAT32 format--my iBook had no trouble reading or writing on this drive, and neither did my family's Dell deskop.
If I recall correctly, the FAT32 format cannot store files larger than 4GB. Also, you will have to partition the drive. My 160GB drive was split into 4 parts, each about 30GB in size. This is another limitation of the FAT32 format.
Formatting my drive was such a pain--and time consuming--that I didn't bother to format the remaining 30 or so gigabytes.
I've reformatted my drive to be HFS and will likely do some work with our home network so that our Dell will be able to send files to my machine & then to the external hard drive.
Programs exist for Windows machines to allow them to read a HFS (Mac-formatted) volume. If you want to be able to use all space possible on the hard drive, purchasing such a program may be your best option.

External Hard drives with ibook.

okay,
I have a 14" ibook G4.
I also have 2 Windows PC's (1 Atlon 3.6GHZ, 4GB ram (for gaming) & a P4 2.8GHZ (for everyday use)) and i was wondering if i could get an EXTERNAL harddrive that will work for all my computers. I dont know anything about External hard drives. So i just need to know before. If there isnt one that works with both, what would be the best for my ibook. Thank you very much

My external hard drive was formatted in the FAT32 format--my iBook had no trouble reading or writing on this drive, and neither did my family's Dell deskop.
If I recall correctly, the FAT32 format cannot store files larger than 4GB. Also, you will have to partition the drive. My 160GB drive was split into 4 parts, each about 30GB in size. This is another limitation of the FAT32 format.
Formatting my drive was such a pain--and time consuming--that I didn't bother to format the remaining 30 or so gigabytes.
I've reformatted my drive to be HFS and will likely do some work with our home network so that our Dell will be able to send files to my machine & then to the external hard drive.
Programs exist for Windows machines to allow them to read a HFS (Mac-formatted) volume. If you want to be able to use all space possible on the hard drive, purchasing such a program may be your best option.

HELP!! Problems using external hard drive

I have moved my iTunes music library from my internal hard drive on my laptop to a new external hard drive in order to free up space on my laptop. The problem I now experience is that when my external hard drive is conected and turned on, my computer will not recognize my iPod. When I turn the external hard drive off, my computer will then recognize my iPod. I can use one or the other but I can't use both at the same time. Because of this problem I can't access my iTunes music library with my iPod in order to update my iPod with new music that has been added to the music library on the external hard drive.
Is it that I need a Firewire conection possibly? If so, is there any way around that? Any help would be appreciated!
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Change the drive letter for the external drive.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

Mac Pro Hard Drive

I installed a new 1 TB hard drive (purchased from the Apple store). When I boot up the computer I get a message "the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer". Any suggestions for fixing the problem?

Hmm, I got two (stupid?) questions about this. First did you initialize the disk. Second, why would you ever buy an over priced hard drive from Apple?

Is there a Hard Drive Size Limitation when using Tiger?

Im going to be setting up a backup server that users can copy their working files to, so Im going to be installing 2 300gb hard drives on a G4 running tiger. I just want to be sure that there is not some hard drive size limitation with tiger.
Please let me know!!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
The size limitation is operating system independent. It has to do with the ATA bus on older machines which is discussed in more detail on this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
If you have a G4 tower that is older than the resolving of that limitation, you can add a PCI ATA card which supports larger hard drives, many of which are discussed in more detail on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
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Potentially dying hard drive, would the warranty cover its replacement?

hi, i have an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro (8gb ram, 750gb Toshiba 5.4k hard drive) purchased in september.
lately its been dropping its main partitions regularly and screwing up disk permissions so in my paranoia i checked the S.M.A.R.T Status of the drive (System information declared it as Verified, and i sighed it off as one of the downsides of OS X) but not long after that i started getting major league beachballing.
verified my permissions and still it refused to go away, making even the most menial of tasks ie opening iTunes or a new tab in Chrome take an eternity.
so suspecting it was an issue with the drive i did a clean install on the drive (still got the beachballing on a new system... very suspicious) after that i then swapped it out with a 320gb i had from a previous laptop, suffices to say i was suprised by the vast increase in speed both in boot time and program access times though i did suspect it was more due to the fact i hadn't reinstalled my programs to it.
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basically every time i get beachballing i seem to get notified of an I/O error. lo and behold in the kernel log i get reports of i/o errors from my main drive. this makes me think that this drive is on its way out the door.
would my years warranty cover the replacement of it?

i would run the AHT test myself but my system came with Lion on it and my internet connection requires me to log in through a web page first before i can do anything rendering the internet test unuseable
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Best external hard drive for backing up iMac?

I have a 20" Intel iMac with 500 GB hard drive purchased 1/07. I would like to buy an external hard drive for backup purposes and have been researching what to buy.
The best backup program for this purpose appears to be Super Duper, but I am having a difficult time trying to determine which hard drive to buy. In reading user comments I notice that none of the major hard drive manufacturers is exempt from severe criticism by some of their customers. I read many complaints of premature failures, lousy technical support, etc.
Can anybody recommend an externmal hard drive setup that will give satisfactory results? By the way, I am still operating with Tiger OS and have no plans to upgrade to Leopard in the foreseeable future.
Bob

Yes, ignore the software that comes with the drives, SuperDuper! will have to be downloaded from the Shirtpocket site, it costs about $28.00 but is well worth it.
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I recently purchase macbook air with OS 10.10.2. I want to use my Seagate external backup plus hard drive for time machine back up. How to partition my 1TB Seagate back up plus hard drive for use with mac and windows pc?

Hi All,
I recently purchased 13" Macbook Air with OS 10.10.2. I want to use my 1TB Seagate backup plus external hard drive as time machine and my windows 7 pc. Please suggest a method. Thanks in advance for your reply.

I strongly recommend having an external drive dedicated solely for TimeMachine. You could partition the drive but if something goes wrong you risk losing the data on both partitions. Should you decide to go ahead with splitting the drive for two different uses you’ll need to partition the drive either using the Mac’s built in Disk Utility program or Windows utility. I believe the built in Windows disk utility program will destroy the current partition and erase the data that’s on it - I use a third party Windows disk utility program for partitioning and it allows for non-destructive partitioning but warns to back up data first just in case. Apple’s Disk Utility can do non-destructive partitions but I don’t recall every trying to do a non-destructive partition on a disk originally formatted for Windows using it. Again - back up that data just in case.
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Can I purchase Mountain Lion and make a flash drive bootable? I do not want to install it on my Macbook Pro. I have Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro now, and due to my hard drive needing repair I need to boot off of another source, like my flash drive.

Can I purchase Mountain Lion and make a flash drive bootable? I do not want to install it on my Macbook Pro. I have Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro now, and due to my hard drive needing repair, I need to boot off of another source, like my flash drive. I am in Paris and my Snow Leopard DVD is in Texas.

Mac OS X has a built-in disk diagnostic and repair program called fsck or file system consistency check. Here’s how to verify and repair your startup disk with fsck. As soon as you hear the startup tone, press and hold Command-S on the keyboard. Keep holding down those keys until you see a black screen with white lettering. This is called “booting into Single User Mode.” As the Mac boots in this mode, the screen reports each step of the process. The line should end in root#. Right after the root# prompt, enter the following: /sbin/fsck -fy
If repairing the disk in single user mode fails, it means one of two things. Either your hard drive itself is failing (a hardware failure), or the directory damage on your hard drive is beyond the capability of the built-in repair procedures in OS X.

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