Tech: zen touch - what's its internal hard disk make/mode

sure would like to know, just for kicks, and possibly to study the manufacturer's specs on shock resistance, transfer speeds, etc...
rumouredly, there's some seagate ,8" dri've, but what's the model ?

It's a Hitachi Travelstar. I think there's only one or two models of this size, so it should be easy to spot.

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Mac OSX wont reognise my internal hard disk drive

I have a problem where for some reason when I start up my Macbook Pro (intel core duo) it does not detect the internal hard disk drive at all. I have run a hardware test and it shows no problems whatsoever. I have tried resetting the PRAM etc and to no avail. Yesterday the system hung and I tried to force quit and it wouldn't do anything so eventually I held down the power key and when it tried to reboot this is the problem I was faced with (it would boot up with the "no entry" sign). I accepted complete defeat and went to completely re-install OSX however it doesn't even show the internal hard drive when I wait for it to give me install destinations. I had tried seeing the hard drive through disk utility however it only shows the install DVD and that's it in the sidebar. I resigned myself further to thinking either the logic board or the HDD had packed in all and I took it round to my brother in law to see if there is anything he could do without opening the machine (he is Oxford educated and writes programmes etc so is very knowledgable), now this is the part that has miffed us both, he started it up using a Linux disc and once running, Linux see's the hard drive with no problems. He has been able to access the HDD with absolutely no problems under Linux both reading and writing to it. I even took my Mac Mini round and he booted them both up in Linux and completely copied Mac OSX from the mini to the macbook pro but still when I try booting up its as if the HDD isn't even there. Why can Linux see the drive and not Mac OSX? Please don't be affraid to get very technical in your answers as they may mean nothing to me but will probably all make sense to my brother in Law. Any sugestions at all would be greatly accepted.

Dear mcdkev,
You guys may have made a big error cloning the Mini HD into the MBP. They both have very different drivers and hardware settings and their OS X versions are customized to fit the hardware. That is why each mac comes with it's own version of OS X and their backup disks. That's a reason why it did not work.
Ok, so now that you do not have any of the original info on the MBP try the following:
Use linux to scan the disk surface & repair any problems.
Reformat the drive as DOS or FAT 32. (I wouldn't go into any linux specific format unless you can "Apple" format it, which I don't think linux has that option.)
Now, the MBP should be able to see it's drive...
boot from the OS X DVD , from the Utilities menu choose Disk Utilities, partition the drive as GUI file system (in case the linux format made the drive a "system boot record", you do not want that... )
Then format the drive as "OS X Extended Journaled"
Now go back to install and install your original basic set of OS X (the factory default).
*If nothing works, please do take your MBP to the Apple store or to a certified tech before you do more damage to the drive and it becomes unusable ...*

Upgrade internal hard disk on ibook G4

Hello,
I am interested in upgrading the internal hard disk of my ibook G4 from 40GB to something better. Is there an Apple service centre in bangalore, India which will do the upgrade? what manufacturer/model# of HDD will be suitable for my 2005 ibook G4?
Can I run Aperture/Adobe photoshop on the same as in will the system be suitable for that application? I have 1.5 GB ram and an external display attached to the laptop.
thanks
-kamal

The words you quoted are supposed to usually mean they
have "service" or access to someone who would be able
to repair or upgrade a computer within Apple specs; those
are usually authorized to do the work, but not Apple.
Some companies doing that kind of work, who don't have
a staff repair service, may collect those for repair and an
other company may pick them up for off-site service.
In some areas, with more than one company listed in the
page resource I cited, some of them are product specialists
and know the line of portable computer very well, so they
would be able to do most things and check it thoroughly.
But those who do not really work on the computer in their
store or attached service (having none) should be checked
into more carefully to discover what they do/where it's done.
The post linked to in your earlier inquiry, where someone
replied to you there with three links to web pages of info,
is worth considering; in that these kinds of jobs can be
tedious and take a great attention to detail with care to not
damage the fine wires and parts inside these portables.
And a skilled tech, with that kind of information, may be
able to replace an iBook's hard disk drive; but some who
only work on Windows OS & PC hardware may be lacking.
Especially when it comes to moving the contents of the
existing drive (or just migrating existing user accounts, etc)
from the old hard drive into a new system installed on the
new replacement hard disk drive.
Some areas of the world are harder to find the resource to
get a job done correctly; when an old iBook portable I had
for a time needed a reed-switch and cable replaced to fix
a display defect when the lid was opened/closed, I ended
up sending the iBook from AK to SC. (Across the continent.)
No body did the work in my area, or if they really did, charged
more than twice what I paid including shipping it both ways.
More than 5,000 miles. Since then, sold, the iBook still works.
Unfortunately sometimes good qualified service is where
you find it after some effort of looking; where I live by some
comparison, has almost no people; just great natural beauty.
Hopefully someone or another you contact can refer you to
a reasonably fine shop of careful people who are qualified.
You may have to ask around, and perhaps expect the iBook
to be transported miles to some other facility for that job.
PS: are there any indications of an "apple user group" of
interested owners who have, use and meet to discuss their
shared community of those interests, in your area? If so,
sometimes people who get together like that know more.
Good luck & happy computing!

ITunes showing Album Covers of external hard disk i/o internal hard disk

Greetings from Malaysia again. Searched through the Discussion Group, but couldn't find anything there. Thus, hope to get your assistance on this matter.
I have some music stored in the internal hard disk of my G4 iBook. However, recently I decided to have all my music stored in an EXTERNAL hard disk, ie in addition to what's in the iBook, to sync with my iPod. Both have the artwork or album covers. The issue is when I boot up ONLY the iBook, even without the external hard disk on, iTunes (Version 8.1) is showing the Artwork/Album Covers (and list of music) of the EXTERNAL hard disk instead of what's in the iBook. I've even tried the "Option key/Choose Library", but to no avail. I've even tried changing the location, after starting up iTunes in the Preference settings, but still the same story.
Is there any way to have iTunes reflect the correct Artwork/Album Covers (and list of music) when I have the external hard disk connected, as well as otherwise?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards.

Moved the existing library. Created a new one, and moved all the songs to the new library. Subsequently, when using the "Option" key to select the library, it ended up as what I wanted, ie iTunes showing the album covers for the songs/album in the respective library - ie external hard disk, and internal in the notebook.

Ssd internal hard disk compatible for a macbook2010

Hy everyone!i need help to choose a new hard disk for my Mac book pro 2010!
I was wondering which ssd 2.5 inch internal hard disk brand is compatible for it?
I would go with a crucial or samsung,but i really don't know what i should notice before choosing.

stefanobernardini,
I put a Samsung 840 PRO SSD in my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro. It’s been working flawlessly for me so far. Other people here have good things to say about the SSDs made by Crucial and by OWC, but the 840 PRO is the only one which I have experience with, so I’ll restrict my recommendations to it.

Can I possible to use dual boot(windows 7 in internal hard disk and windows 8 in external hard disk)?

i want to create dual boot(2 OS in 1 laptop) in my laptop but my internal hard disk reach maximum(3) logical partition so my genuine windows 7 os is not allow me to create new logical partition and install win8 pro. i planed to purchase
one external hard disk and connect with my laptop and install win8 in external hard disk and use both win8 and 7. This is possible? If possible how to i create? please give me step by step instruction.

This is a developers forum for the presentation manager windows forms classes and api's
Try what has now a new name again user community forums, formerly answer forums.
http://answers.microsoft.com
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Cor

What's the maximum hard disk size for the MBP?

Sorry the title might sound like a dumb question, but I was wondering if my MBP Core Duo, is future proof regarding the internal hard disk. Will it recognise any capacity, or stuck at a certain level?
Also what are the largest Apple supported internal drives currently available? Any recommendations?

That's kind of a gray area, but I think you may be right. Here are the conditions under which Apple can refuse service:
This warranty does not apply: (a) to damage caused by use with non-Apple products; (b) to damage caused by accident, abuse, misuse, flood, fire, earthquake or other external causes; (c) to damage caused by operating the product outside the permitted or intended uses described by Apple; (d) to damage caused by service (including upgrades and expansions) performed by anyone who is not a representative of Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider; (e) to a product or part that has been modified to significantly alter functionality or capability without the written permission of Apple; (f) to consumable parts, such as batteries, unless damage has occurred due to a defect in materials or workmanship; or (g) if any Apple serial number has been removed or defaced.
So if something breaks that's unrelated to your HDD upgrade, I think Apple still has to service it as long as you didn't break it while performing the ugprade. At least that's my interpretation.

Dual G5 hangs while booting from internal hard-disk

Hi,
When I switched my Dual G5 (2x2.5GHz around 15 months old, 1.5GB ram, 160GB hard disk, OS 10.4.6) on yesterday, it wouldn't boot from the internal hard disk. The spinning "wheel" (under the Apple logo) didn't show up and after a couple (5? 10?) of minutes the fans started making more noise than they ever did. I tried again with the same result.
It did boot from CD though and the disk was accessible. Disk Utility didn't report a problem and the hardware test neither. Subsequent rebooting from the internal hard disk failed again.
Then I reinstalled 10.4 (with archive & install), but with the same result. Then I got a Firewire drive from the computer support department, formatted it, installed 10.4 and copied (nearly) the entire internal hard disk's content to it. I was able to work normally from that disk.
Then I booted again from the 10.4 installation disk, formatted the internal drive, reinstalled 10.4 and then it did boot from the internal drive. I migrated all my files and now everything is working again (although a few things might have gone missing). And I lost nearly a day of work.
I conclude from this that it wasn't the disk, but that somehow an essential part of the boot software got damaged.
My question: how did this happen? What could have caused it? Is there someone with a similar experience (i.e., failure to boot from disk while the disk is still ok)? Is there any way to prevent it from happening again?

we have g5s the same as you. the few times we've ever had an issue with them refusing to boot up have been solved by running diskwarrior. it's an utter 'must have'.
it's a harsh fact that drives (and the operating system that sits on them) do fail from time to time. careful housekeeping (repairing permissions regularly, running disk utility repair and/or diskwarrior) will help to prevent any major problems.
if you have an issue that can't be fixed by doing these things (and we just had one with a file sharing problem) the best course of action is a full reinstall.
we keep a fw800 drive with the latest installers of every application we use handy in each room for this purpose. it's time consuming to stay on top of but worth it when it all goes pear-shaped.

Internal hard disk really slow to write new files

Hi
I've had some problems with my mac lately;
it was running really slowly so I ran tech tool deluxe and it detected a bad surface sector.
I wasn't sure how to fix this so I copied everything from my internal hard disk onto 2 external hard disks.
Then I deleted all documents, files and most apps from the internal hard drive and zeroed out all free space using disk utility. (Which took four days).
Finally I did a re-install of leopard and ran tech tool deluxe again, which came back with no problems.
However, now I'm trying to copy all the files back onto hard disk it's taking a very long time e.g. iTunes files totaling 31.41GB would take 14hours
Trying to move the same iTunes files to the other external hard disk takes 25 minutes.
Any help would be appreciated

Then I deleted all documents, files and most apps from the internal hard drive and zeroed out all free space using disk utility. (Which took four days).
It should not take four days to zero out free space. And it should not take 14 hours to write 30GB of data from a directly connected external drive. There is probably a problem with the part of the drive that was not deleted and zeroed; in the system installation. Or the problem could be in the disk directory structure.
The only way to fix it is to erase the entire drive. You should not need to zero out data, although doing so would do no harm and should take no longer than a few hours (depends on size of drive). Then reinstall a fresh copy of Mac OS X. After going through the updates and installing your apps, restore your personal data from those external drives.
If the drive is still acting slow, you may have a hardware problem with the drive.

INTERNAL HARD DISK SPECIFICATION

WHAT IS THE PHYSICAL SPECIFICATION (SIZE) OF INTERNAL HARD DISK I NEED TO BUY FOR MY HP PAVILION DV6 2141EE LAPTOP .I NEED TO REPALCE IT HELP ME PLEASE..
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Hi
As per the Specifications your unit came with internal Hard Drive 500 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 7200 rpm also attaching the manual link for your part number and reference. Check page Maintenance and Service Guide 4–13.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01860375
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"Ghost" System folder on internal hard disk.

I have a mid-2010 iMac with a 120 SSD (used for the operating system, primary applications and documents) and a 1 TB internal hard disk for seldom-used applications, documents and movies. Although everything works reasonably well, the Hard Disk keeps creating a System folder on the internal Hard Disk with a Library folder, which in turn holds some Caches. If I delete this System folder on the Hard Disk by way of Cocktail, the computer simply creates it again. Is this normal?

Hey Allan...
I assure you, these audio related cards are very much
completely real and assuredly non-mythical!
They are:
A MOTU PCI-424 card, which is a proprietary card for running multitrack MOTU audio interfaces.
A Universal Audio UAD-1 card, which is a piggy-backing DSP card that runs audio plug-ins.
This is the main computer in a recording studio that I
run. My initial plan was to have two separate internal
drives that are identical, so that if one drive were to
die, I could immediately reboot from the other system
and have almost no down time.
I was asking about this on an audio related board and
someone made the point that having multiple instances
of system software might be causing a problem.
As a workaround, I think instead I will load an extra
internal SATA drive and just keep it in a box, waiting
where I can just pop it in if the system drive fails.
I've tried everything and the PCI cards don't show up
under system "A", if the drive with system "B" is also
mounted. I don't know if there's any tricky workaround
to this... mounting drives in a different order maybe?
I'm not heavily tech-savvy, so I think the easiest option
is just having a separate replacement drive rather than
using one of the drives that is always mounted.
Let me know if you think of anything though...
Best,
Fred

Is there provision to add second internal Hard disk to 17-e117dx

Hi,
Please can you let me know, if there is provision to add second internal hard disk to HP Pavilion 17-e117dx.
If yes, a) are there any requirments or the specifications of Hard disk (any make or model); b) what other hardware will be required and where I can get it from and c) lastly will doing so make my HP laptop warranty void
HP Pavilion
Product: F9J38UA#ABA
Model: 17-e117dx
Thanks
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Not in the way you probably envision. Here is the Service Manual:
Manual
See Page 50. Unlike the Envy 17 and Pavilion dv7, the Pavilion 17 has only one hard drive bay. The only way to add a second hard drive is to remove the DVD (optical drive) and insert a DVD bay hard drive adapter. The Manual shows how to remove the DVD drive and you can buy the adapter at amazon.com or from jacobsparts.com. Note it is a 9.5 mm thick drive, not a 12.7 mm. Both types are available. I do not recommend the DVD drive adapter solution because you lose the use of the optical drive and also because the optical drive interface is usually not as fast as the main hard drive interface. Still fast enough for simple storage and you can run a video from it but you would not want to edit video from that drive, for example.
https://www.jacobsparts.com/items/HDDBAY-02/
If you do decide to go the DVD adapter route I would buy a large capacity 5400 rpm SATA 2.5 inch wide and 9.5 mm thick hard drive. No sense in buying a more expensive high performance drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178006
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Problem installating Snow Leopard on old Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo. After creating partition on internal hard disk (Extended Journaled), installation starts but stops at half of the progress bar. Screen asking Restart appears.

Hello:
I have tried installing Snow Leopard via the installation disc on a Macbook Pro (2007) with an Intel Core 2 Duo, but I the installation has failed more than 5 times.
I have first formatted and partitioned the internal hard disk with Mac Os Extended Journal format.
Once the installation starts, it starts without a problem unti lthe progress bar gest until half completed then a screen asking for a Computer Restart shows up.
It asks to press the power button for some time until it the computer shuts down and then, press again to turn it on.
Once turned on, the installation disc gets readed, the installation screen appears again and asks again to start the whole installation process form the beginning.

Then you have a Hardware Problem.
Your system is Crashing part way through the install and Re-Booting because of the crash.
Could be the drive itself or it could be some other hardware part in your system. Like the RAM.
To check if it is the internal drive connect an External drive to the system by USB and do the install on that external. If the install completes then it more then likely the drive is bad. If it crashes again then it is more then likely some other piece of hardware in your system.

How do I move music files from the startup disc to iTunes in the other internal hard disk os 10.5.8?

How do I move music files from the startup disc to iTunes in the other internal hard disk os 10.5.8?
The music I want to move was in iTunes but is now just files. I had to reinstall a new iTunes and lost all my old music.
Thank you!

That article is about using your iPod as an external hard drive, to move files from one computer to another computer. It is not related to your question.
You can't use iTunes to move song files from iPod to computer, except for songs you purchased from the iTunes Store (and you can also re-download purchases). However, there are third-party methods and utilities that can move song files from iPod to computer. If you do a Google search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links.
Once the song files are on your current computer, add them to that computer's iTunes library by dragging the files (or folder containing the files) to the iTunes window. After confirming everything is there (and fixing the data issue you mentioned) you can sync the iPod. You may want to do a Restore on the iPod, if it might have a data corruption issue, which will erase the iPod's hard drive, re-install the latest software, and set it to defautl settings.

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