Solid state hard drive space problem

hello to all,
my friend owns the macbook air, we bought the one with the 64GB solid state hard drive.... we checked all the folders within the user folder (application, library, music etc.) and they total a 12GB or so of space! but it says the hard drive is full and he has 1GB left..... what might be the problem???

You may wish to try this application: Omni Disk Sweeper
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/
It'll scan the HD for you and give a break down as to where things are and hopefully assist in resolving the issue.
At least then you can determine if the number it returns equals the number you expected. Also, is your friend syncing a local copy of his iDisk? Or a FileVault user?

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Hi, I am trying to install an Intel 520 series 480GB SSD into my late 2008 MacBook Pro. I am running OS X 10.8.3. I used Super Duper to make a bootable copy of my primary disk and installed the intel drive correctly. When I boot from my external drive, I am queried about a hard drive I need to "initialize" which opens Disk Utility when I click it. It appears the drive is completely recognized by the system. I am trying to partition the new internal drive into a single partition in the GUID Partition Table so that I can use Super Duper to transfer my HD contents back.
The problem I encounter at this step is an error message that says "Partition failed - Partition failed with the error: Couldn't Open Device."
Does anybody have thoughts about what might be causing this or what I can do to fix it? The hard drive is brand new out the box, so I believe it should be working appropriately. Thank you!

Never mind, the hard drive magically initiated after several restarts. Almost like it needed to be primed like a pump. Now this darn negotiated link speed issue....

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Heres the Lowdown,
I have a Desktop that has a 250 G Solid state hard drive , and a secondary 750 G Hard drive.
My OS is installed on the solid state , and also a lot of my audio software which needs to also be on the same disk drive as the operating system ;
Problem is I've run out of room and continually get DISK FULL error messages , which stop me from doing any real time audio tracking and recording.
I've backed up all files to an airport drive ( I'm a bit paranoid about losing vital info) .
Is there a way to reinstall the OS onto the second larger drive and just transfer the remaining software across
Will I have to reinstall all previous versions of software if I do this?
Will The processing slow down if the OS is run on the Standard drive rather than the Solid State drive ?
Last time I tried to clear some space on the OS drive I accidentally deleted vital information, so I wanna make sure I do this properly.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Carbon Copy Cloner (1 Month Demo with full capabilities). Because CCC also has the ability to transfer your Recovery Partition
SuperDuper (Free for a full clone). Recovery partition will not be transferred
Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility -> Restore (from SSD to 750 hard disk). Recovery partition will not be transferred.
Or install the OS on the 750 hard disk (with will install a recovery partition), then use migration assistant to move your files over. Or you could then use one of the above utilities to overwrite the just installed OS without messing with the recovery partition.

Can I put a solid state hard drive in my older MacBook Pro?

Can this Macbook pro 2.2GHz MacBook Pro (MC723LL/A) be upgraded to a solid state hard drive?

Yes. Visit OWC for suitable SSDs from their 3G collection. Also, you may look into their DataDoubler that lets you remove the optical drive and install the HDD in that space. They also will have some installation tutorials.

T400s solid state hard drive already full

I have a newly-purchased t400s with a 120gb solid state hard drive. The drive is already almost full, and I have only uploaded about 35gb of data from my old computer. How is this possible? Are there specific programs that are eating up my storage space? Thanks.
Moderator edit: Added detail to subject.

Is it a Lenovo-provided installation or your own clean install?
How long have you had it? is it doing those ridiculous R&R automatic backups to itself?
What's the partitioning layout shown in disk management? Service partition? Recovery partition?
From the above you can tell I have no idea what's going on...
Z.
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Recounting My Successful Experience Upgrading My Solid State Hard Drive

I just successfully upgraded my solid state hard drive from
60 gigabytes to 256 ; the machine is a Lenovo T400s - while the upgrade is
still fairly fresh, I thought I’d share my experience – maybe someone else will
benefit – most of what I’m about to relay was provided by Zoltanthegypsy and
GMAC-R60 – I thank them again for their advice - but I will try to add some
additional thoughts based on my experience – for the most part I was able to
use the tools provided by Lenovo – my original hard drive had 3 partitions, S
(system), C ( windows + my programs & data), & Q ( Lenovo stuff like
backup and restore, the factory copy, etc.) :
Create a “factory state” copy of the machine to
DVD or CD soon after purchase – I say soon after purchase because it appears that
a minimum amount of hard disk space is required – my 60 gig was almost full and
I got a message that there wasn’t enough space – I can still make the copy but
I’ll have to move some things off temporarily – this step isn’t really related
to the upgrade but it is a good idea – Start/Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools and you’ll see
the option – and as Zoltanthegypsy has pointed out you will most likely not be
able to do this from the new hard drive after the restore operation covered
below – I haven’t proven this out but I do know that my Q space on the new
drive is smaller than before – something was lost and it’s most likely the
factory state – and so keep the old hard drive long enough to make that factory
state copy to DVD or CD.
The next step was a full backup to a Lenovo
external hard drive – it came with one partition - the external that I got from
Lenovo has a small keypad and is password enabled – this fact will come into
play further on – as GMAC-R60 noted a pop-up will appear giving the option to
create rescue media – you want to select this option so that the external will be
bootable.
When the backup is complete you want to swap hard
drives making sure to first unplug & remove the battery .
There may be other ways to do this next step but
here’s what I did – I powered on the machine and let it go through what
appeared to be a BIOS routine – note that my external was attached to the
laptop but it wasn’t activated by keying in the password – after the BIOS
routine was finished I activated the external by typing in the password and then
did a Control/Alt/Delete – the machine restarted and booted from the external –
with hindsight I probably could have connected & activated the external
before powering on but the instructions that came with the external suggested
something different which didn’t work for me .
I was now able to go into rescue and recovery
and do a complete restore to the new drive – but to my surprise the extra space
that I bought with the new drive ended up all in the Q partition – and Windows
Disk Management didn’t enable me to reallocate the space to C.
And so I purchased Disk Director 11 Home by
Acronis – a $50.00 investment in a tool that I’ll probably never use again but
I’m now able to use an $800 solid state drive rather than trying to recoup some
money via Ebay -– within minutes I was able to reclaim the space and I now have
enough C space to last the lifetime of the laptop – especially since all
pictures go on a stick & my demographic isn’t into video games .
One useful piece of information that I got from
a user on the Acronis forum was that all of the Lenovo tools like rescue and
recovery, etc. are available for download from the Lenovo website – and so if worse
came to worse I could have deleted that Q partition, stretched C using Windows
Disk Management , and then downloaded the Lenovo tools into C.
One thing I’d like to learn to do would be to
perform all the steps outlined above but without using the Lenovo tools – using
Windows 7 tools instead but not having a Windows CD , i.e. how do you boot

It went something like this:
(On the stock drive)
Plugged in a blank USB HDD, and a blank USB flash drive.
- HDD formatted in NTFS, flash drive in FAT16.
Ran the recovery media creator.
- Created bootable media on flash drive, and put the recovery image on the HDD.
Once done, shutdown, removed the battery, swapped the drive for a 500GB Scorpio Black (freshly NTFS quick-formatted). USB HDD and flash drive were still attached.
Booted, and used F12 to select the flash drive for booting.
It booted into the Windows Recovery Environment and I chose the Lenovo restore factory image option at the bottom of the list.
From there on out, I just clicked through the wizard, and it restored.
Upon finishing, I unplugged all of the external media, and had it restart. It then booted into OOBE as expected.
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This opened the Windows 8 file explorer window and Windows recognises the drive. So I was able to create a catalogue there and save.
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Installed a cloned a 500g solid state hard drive but unable to boot. Can only hear drive spinning quietly, no chime to launch OS. Total darkness. Can anyone help? thanks in advance!

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Hi Retired Engineer,
Yes, you're right. It is the Seagate Momentus XT and it does not spin. That was just a layman's term for computer illiterate like myself. After hours of inspection & a prayer, I discovered by pulling the 4 GB memory chips out I put in, replacing the 1.5 GB back in for the memory which I upgraded 3 years ago. Chime! It works! So it is the 4 GB memory causing the problem. But why? Does that mean my Macbook Pro does not support with more memory? The fan noise is now gone which I suspect it was caused the other overheating Seagate hard drive & eventually causing the crash. However, the top bar temp indicator shows 174˙F @ 000rpm. Does that also mean the fan on the left is not working? (the right fan on the board works). Do they work simutaneously? Or left fan is just a back up?
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I seriously considering replacing my "C" drive with a SSD. I've upgraded to 8 G memory, replaced the video card to a Galaxy GT 610. I'm still running MS Vista Home Premium. i'm looking to upgrade to MS 8.1 and office 365. I want a faster boot time and current OS. I DONOT play "Games".
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I am partial to Samsung SSD's. I have installed one in my HP 810-135qe. Here is an EVO 840 - 250 GB:
http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MZ-7TE250BW
You can use Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone your HDD to the SSD.
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Will my Pavilion dv5224nr notebook support a solid state hard drive?

I am currently running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2005 (Reporting Version 2002); I have 1 GB RAM installed on my Pavilion dv5000; Model dv5224nr.
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I would like to install a 120 GB Solid State Hard Drive,
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Your laptop will only support a SSD drive through a 1.8" or 2.5" USB external hard drive enclosure. You cannot put one inside the laptop itself so your setup would be intresting if planning on putting a OS on a SSD. They are great for extra storage and you could still run windows off of a external but I do not suggest it as it's not worth the problems windows will most likely give you.
First thing is to get that 1GB upgraded to at least 4GB for any version of windows - these days all apps are memory hogs and 1GB is making your machine push it's limits while not being fast or burning hot. Vista is a good choice for OS and I wouldn't attempt Windows 7 on the dv5000 series due to the specs.
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I want to change screenshot location from my Solid State hard drive with OSX on it, to my 2nd storage hard drive, how do I do this?
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I am replacing my existing SATA hard drive to a Solid State hard drive and want to image the drive, is this possible?

I am replacing my existing 320 GB SATA hard drive that clicks and makes weird noises to a Solid State hard drive and want to image the drive, is this possible? I then want to replace the DVD with a secondary large drive for storage.
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Put the Old drive in an external notebook drive enclosure. Install the SSD in your computer. Boot from your Old drive's Recovery HD:
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
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     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
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     5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
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Set the new Startup Disk to the SSD and restart the computer.
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I have a 2007 20" iMac. Can I get a solid state hard drive installed? Can the Apple store do it? How long? What cost?

Sure-glad to help you. You will not lose any data by changing synching to MacBook Pro from imac. You have set up Time Machine, right? that's how you'd do your backup, so I was told, and how I do my backup on my mac. You should be able to set a password for it. Save it. Your stuff should be saved there. So if you want to make your MacBook Pro your primary computer, I suppose, back up your stuff with Time machine, turn off Time machine on the iMac, turn it on on the new MacBook Pro, select the hard drive in your Time Capsule, enter your password, and do a backup from there. It might work, and it might take a while, but it should go. As for clogging the hard drive, I can't say. Depends how much stuff you have, and the hard drive's capacity. As for moving syncing from your iMac to your macbook pro, should be the same. Your phone uses iTunes to sync and so that data should be in the cloud. You can move your iTunes Library to your new Macbook pro
you should be able to sync your phone on your new MacBook Pro. Don't know if you can move the older backups yet-maybe try someone else, anyways,
This handy article from Apple explains how
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support''
don't forget to de-authorize your iMac if you don't want to play purchased stuff there
and re-authorize your new macBook Pro
time machine is an application, and should be found in the Applications folder. it is built in to OS X, so there is nothing else to buy. double click on it, get it going, choose the Hard drive in your Time capsule/Airport as your backup Time Machine and go for it. You should see a circle with an arrow on the top right hand of your screen (the Desktop), next to the bluetooth icon, and just after the wifi and eject key (looks sorta like a clock face). This will do automatic backups of your stuff.

I just put a solid state hard drive in my mac book pro and used super duper to copy the hard drive and move the data over to thew new ssd, but most of my music isn't in iTunes when I turned it on? How do I get my music to show up in my new drive?

I just put a solid state hard drive in my mac book pro and used super duper to copy the hard drive and move the data over to thew new ssd, but most of my music isn't in iTunes when I turned it on? How do I get my music to show up in my new drive?

Many thanks lllaass,
The Touch Copy third party software for PC's is the way to go it seems and although the demo is free, if you have over 100 songs then it costs £15 to buy the software which seems not a lot to pay for peace of mind. and restoring your iTunes library back to how it was.
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http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php?gclid=CODH8dK46bsCFUbKtAod8 VcAQg

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