Picking a Hard Drive

The Hard drive in my Powerbook has recently died. Since it was out of warranty i have decided to change the hard drive my self and and having already replace my iMac G5 i decided to give it a try. Now i have managed to remove he old hard drive from the power book and now all I need is to know what kind of hard drive I should pick.

You basically need to choose speed and size. Speed you want 5400rpm (the norm) or the faster 7200rpm, which also costs more. Size, whatever you need up to 160GB (5400rpm) or 100GB (7200rpm).
OWC at http://www.macsales.com has a good selection, and does Newegg at http://www.newegg.com . You want a 2.5" notebook drive that supports the ATA or Parallel ATA connection. A serial ATA or SATA connection will not work in the Powerbook. At OWC's web site, they are pretty specific on the two different connections.

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I have an old 2008 Mac Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 that just quit on me. When I boot up, I get to the apple logo and then the screen turns white and stays that way until I power off my machine. I have a few hard drives with operating systems installed and a boot partition. When I hold option on start up, I'm able to pick a hard drive to boot from, but I get the same problem. This leads me to believe that the issue lies with my computer, not the disks.
I've also tried booting in safe mode and get the same problem.
So I'm looking at purchasing one of these bad boys:
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So here's my question:
I have an early 2013 Macbook Pro running Yosemite 10.10 that I want to use to boot my Mac Pro internal hard drives from. Is it possible to do so? I figure I can access it through pressing the option key during start up.
Thanks!
Jon

I'm sorry, but that won't work because your MP only has Firewire ports and no Thunderbolt ports while your new MBP has Thunderbolt ports but no Firewire ports. Therefore, you cannot connect the two together except using Ethernet or Wi-Fi from which neither can be booted. If you use the device from Amazon, then you need to remove one of the drives to insert in it. Then you could boot from it provided the drive is actually bootable in the other machine. Snow Leopard is not capable of booting a 2013 MBP.

Solid-state hard drive questions....

Hi, I'm going to get a new Macbook Pro soon to replace my archaic 17" wobbley screened Powerbook and I'm having some dilemmas about picking the hard drive. So heres a few solid-state questions I was hoping you could answer:
How much faster is solid state than disk (disc?), for example I run Flash and Photoshop alot. If a go for 8gb of ram and 3.somthing processor, will there be a noticeable difference in the speed of these apps opening/running if the hard drive is solid state?
and...
If I go for normal hard disk now, is it possible to upgrade the hard drive at a later date (doing it myself or through Apple) to a solid one?
It's an extra 600 quid that I could be spending on crisps, so is it worth the money?

While I can't comment on the speed I can comment on changing the internal drive. In short it's a 10-15 minute process. My recommendation would be to start with a traditional HD and see if it's performance is adequate before considering an upgrade. If not as mentioned the upgrade is extremely easy. In fact here is a video that shows it.

Disk Utily - Problem with Hard Drive Erase

I have just upgraded my 12" PowerBook G4 Aluminium with a 80GB Hitachi Travelstar 5K100. I cannot get the disk to Erase (and hence format) in Disk Utilty.
I booted from the Mac OS X Panther Disc One and ran the Disk Utilty. The new drive is visible in the left pane. I selected it, clicked on the Erase tab, selected MAC OS Extended (journaled), clicked Erase, and then Erase again (from the "are you sure?" Dialogue box). A progress bar then appears in the bottom right hand corner with the caption "Partitioning" to the left of it, and about 2mm of blue showing as progress. It does not, however, make any further progress, no matter how long I leave it. I understand, from what I have read, that the erase process is normally quite rapid?
I have tried the Erase routine several times now, each time with the result described above. The caption "partitioning" seems strange, as I am not trying to partition the drive.
I have spent hours trawling the web looking for a solution to this problem, but without success. I am extremely frustrated by the situation, especially as the physical replacement was actually pretty straight-forward.
Has anyone come across this problem before? If so, what's the diagnosis and is there a resolution?
PowerBook G4 12" Aluminium Mac OS X (10.3) 867MHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD

Hi Gerry:
When erasing (formatting/initializing, take your pick) a hard drive for the first time, Disk Utility will show one entry for the hard drive in the column on the left. (This entry typically includes the manufacturer and/or model information.) During the initialization process, Disk Utility will by default create one partition (formatted volume) utilizing 100 per cent of the available capacity.
1. Select the hard drive to be erased.
2. Go to the Erase tab, select the Volume Format (by default it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), and give the volume a name.
3. Click on Erase. The captioning first states that it is partitioning the drive, and the progress indicator holds at a couple of millimeters for anywhere from a few seconds to a minute. It should then change to "Formatting", and the progress bar will complete within a few more seconds.
I just erased a 400GB external firewire drive and the whole process took less than a minute. If it gets stuck on "Partitioning" and it never says "Formatting", then I'd suspect the hard drive. Some defect on the drive is preventing Disk Utility from creating the partition.
You could try using the Partition tab instead of the Erase tab; try to make two equal partitions, and if it's successful, delete the partitions and try to make one. Kappy, who's one of the veterans around here, always suggests using the Partition tab for initializing a new disk. Maybe he knows something we don't.
Andrew

Can't access/mount hard drive, Permission denied message in Disk Utility.

Hello,
Need some help here. I was upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5. I got an error message when I tried to upgrade from the DVD. My hard drive had an exclamation mark by it and I was told I would need to erase it in order to install. When I tried quitting the installer, I had to go through startup disk to pick my Hard drive, which showed it had 10.4 installed. When I tried restarting, it would only boot off of the DVD. I checked startup disk again, but my hard drive was now not visible. I have a tower with a back-up system on it. When I picked it, it started up fine. I went under disk utility and the hard drive is listed, but is ghosted/grayed out. Repair & Verify Disk permissions are ghosted back as well.When I try to repair or verify disk, it says it can't it gives me the disk number and sector number and Permission Denied. I poked around on disk utility for info, and it looks like it doesn't have a mount point anymore and under permissions, it says that they are not enabled. So, apparently the access privileges have been erased & I don't know how to mount my disk again. I'm assuming I need some sort of commmand line in Terminal to restore my priveleges or get it to auto-mount. I do not want to erase my drive to upgrade. All my applications are on that drive. Please help!
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See if Niel's User Tip can help you: I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access .

Can i restrict apple mail client from downloading all emails...and allow it to pick a start date for gmail mail to sync? i am flooded with old emails, thousands on them ...eating hard drive space of my macbook pro and un necessary overhead

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The genius bar technicians can check your MBP for possible hardware problems and specific software issues that you may have. The diagnosis will be free. Any extensive repairs will not be free.
If you have minor software problems, you essentially will have to deal with them yourself. Examine these two comprehensive documents for possible problem definition and solutions. If you encounter problems that you are unable to cope with, start a new discussion and there will be persons willing to assist you in solving them.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
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Itunes is not picking up the library on my external hard drive although I have mapped the drive in preferences? Can anyone help please? Thank you.

Hi,
I have been rebuilding our iTunes library on a external hard drive, no problems to start with. The pc crashed the other day and I lost some of the files.
I can see the music files on the external hard drive, but I haven't been able to get iTunes to pick them up as being the library despite following the instructions to map the drive under 'preferences' in iTunes. I have added new songs, these are being saved in the folder on the external hard drive and are showing in the library pane on iTunes, any suggestions how I can get the other files to show in the library? Would be very grateful for any help! Thank you.

The fix for the exclamation marks is: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders
The proper way to use backups is to restore the photos to their original location, but you probably don't want to do that as you said your old hard disk was almost full. Thus, the solution given above will solve the problem.

Just installed new hard drive yet it's not picking it up.

A few days ago I couldn't figure out why my MacBook wouldn't get past the white start up screen. I found that it was caused because my hard drive was dead. I went out and picked up a new hard drive. I just installed it. No problems getting it installed. But I've put in my os cd to install it on my new hard drive. It starts up, goes to the walkthough for installation, yet again it won't recognize that I've installed a new drive. It's just like before and not finding it. What could be causing this??

Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, 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. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. 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 Options 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.
When the formatting is completed quit DU to return to the installer. You may now install OS X.

I have just bought an iMac, and when I had my PC I had all my mp3 music on external hard drive and used to stream using software called ps3 server and tveristy which used to pick up on my Roberts radio via network wi fi hiw do I get iMac to do it

I have just bought an iMac, and when I had my PC I had all my mp3 music on external hard drive and used to stream using software called ps3 server and tveristy which used to pick up on my Roberts radio via network wi fii and on my iPad via AirPlay. How can I do the same with iMac as this software isn't compatible

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External Hard Drive disconnects when I pick it up from idle.

It started doing this recently. I'm guessing its a power issue, I recently had my logic board replaced but I narrowed down the symtom.
When I connect my external hard drive, it works fine. No problem, I pick it up, move it all around, jiggle the wire, nothing.
But when it is idle, then I suddenly pick it up, it suddenly disconects ONLY from idle.
I used different wires, even replaced the HD case, gives me all the same problem.
It never did it before, it only started happening in the past 2 months.
I have to DJ with this laptop and hard drive so I cant be continuing to have this issue.

Sounds like a good plan, you can never be to safe and having a second External HD is safer than one.
The only thing that I would do different, is setup the 3T as my TimeMachine Backup and then erase and move my Photos, Videos and perhaps even iTunes Media to the 1T. That way you will have room to backup both the Internal Hard Drive and the 1T External Hard Drive to the 3T using TimeMachine.
Take your time, study and use the > Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions if you get stuck or aren't sure how to make the move.
Also see > iPhoto: How to move the Library folder to a new location
iMovie ’08: Storing or moving your video library to an external hard disk
and > iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder

Apple Hard Drive not working after picking it up for a new LCD screen

I recently picked picked up my repaired MacBook Pro ( replacing LCD screen). It was weird because they didn't test it in front of me or anything, They just handed it to me. When I got back home, i turned it on. It shows the Apple logo and the loading screen. Once the loading screen was full , it would turn off automaticallyy. It turns out my hard drive failed. Even though my my LCD screen was damaged, everything else on the mac was working fine. this is also my second hard drive , which i purchased in August ( 90 day warranty up) . I feel like this is an Apple issue and they should give me a free hard drive. Is this possible.
The hard drive was fine before they started to repair it.

williowill wrote:
The hard drive was fine before they started to repair it.
take it back

Need help picking the correct hard drive upgrade for my MBP

I need help picking the correct/best hard drive upgrade for my MBP. It is the 15" 2GHz Core Duo. Came with a spacious 90GB drive.
Suggestions and recommendations very appreciated.

It will take almost any 2.5 inch sata drive.
Take a look at www.newegg.com and www.macsales.com to see what's out there and how much it costs.
Toshiba have a 320gb 2,.5 inch drive in the works, but it's not quite out yet and will be expensive.
I'll start you off..
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Laptop-Hard-Dr ives

I am losing a hard drive on another computer so I have downloaded all music to my ipod nano, when I sync the nano to my new computer and new itunes software it won't pick up the music from the old computer what do I do to successfully sync?

I am losing a hard drive on an old computer so I performed a sync of all music from the old computer to my ipod nano. Now when I sync my ipod nano to my new computer/Itunes all music will not upload to new computer/software. What am I doing wrong?

I’ve never needed to do that and am fairly new to using itunes but try doing this. Go to, “Store,” in the itunes menu and select, “Authorize this computer.” Enter apple id and see if that works. I heard that method is used to transfer purchased media to a new computer but I don’t know if it works for regular stored media. Please let me know if that works.

Doesn't pick up new hard drive when installing ML

Hi
I am currently replacing the hard drive in my brothers 2009 MacBook Pro. I've successfully swapped the old hard drive out for the new one (after ensuring I had a current time machine backup) and have followed online instructions to create a bootable DVD with ML on it.
However, when I start it up with the DVD in and holding down the option key, it brings up the option of restoring from a time machine backup or a fresh install etc, I sect fresh install but when it reaches the stage for me to select which volume I want the new install on the new hard drive doesn't show up!
I've tried taking it apart again to ensure the connections are fitted to the new drive correctly but the same thing happens when I try again.
Can anyone help me please?

You're going the long way around
Clone the old drive to a new. 2 clicks and 40 mins and you're done
Nothing to install no complications

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