Two hard drives on MB Pro 15"

Is it possible to have install both normal hard drive and flash drive on a Macbook Pro 15" (non retina)?

ONLY on the non-Retina!
But you'll have to give up the Superdrive and put the HDD in its stead. The SSD with the startup volume would go where the HDD currently resides. OWC (aka OtherWorldComputing.com ) has a number of adapter kits for this.

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How to support two hard drives on macbook pro

I have a 2012 13" Macbook Pro with a 750GB HD and i have a bootcamp partion on it.
I want to put an SSD HD (http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MZ-7PD256BW) but i also wanto to keep my old HD and so i bought a caddy to replace the optical drive and use the SSD as the main HD and the old HD as a secondary HD.
Can i still keep my bootcamp partion on the old HD and just remove the OS from it and set it up on the SSD?

No, the Boot Camp partition MUST stay on the boot drive - in your case the SSD.
Very wise of you, however, to put the SSD in the HD bay instead of the optibay. That's where your Mac 'expects' to find the boot drive and where it should be installed: doing otherwise can cause problems with your system.
Sorry that I wasn't able to give you the answer that you probably wanted!
Clinton

Using two hard drives with Boot Camp?

Hi,
I have two hard drives in my mac pro. They both show up on the mac side but when I use windows only the one shows up. Is there a way to have access to the second hard drive using windows?

You need to install a product like MacDrive. This will enable Mac OS Extended format support for Windows. Be aware that if you do something like this all of your Mac files and OS will be vulnerable to Windows "issues" such as viruses and spyware etc. It is NOT recommended.

New Hard Drive in MacBook Pro Early 2011, can't reinstall Mountain Lion.

My computer started having issues for some reason, it would just restart randomly about every 5-30 minutes. Disk Utility said that the drive needed to be reformatted, so I went into Recovery mode and erased the Hard Drive and then tried to reinstall it and it crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to install it.
I will say this though, my computer has two hard drives instead of 1. I took out the optical drive and replaced it with a hard drive. For some reason the bootable drive was the optical, so I tried installing it on the main system drive. Well, I can't get Mountain Lion to install on either drive so I went and got a new one, but that one is having problems as well.
I took the computer into Simply Mac and left it with them to get an estimate on a trade in value and to see if they could Mountain Lion to install. Well they did something, because they got it installed, but my computer is still restarting quite often. I want to install it on the system drive (new hard drive) and then have the other drive for memory storage.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ANSWERS OR HELPS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ABSWER. I'll try my best to give you guys all the information you.
15.4 inch Early 2011 MacBook Pro
2.2 GHz Quad Core i7
16 gig Ram
SSHD 1 TB Hard Drive as main drive
5400 RPM 1 TH Hard Drive as optical drive
1 gig dedicated AMD RADEON (7850?)Graphics

What I am primarily interested in right now is how do I install Mountain Lion on the new Hard Drive. I don't have an Optical Drive in the computer because I put in another Hard Drive for more space in the computer.
I can't boot from an External Disc Drive, I can from a bootable USB drive, but it crashes everytime.
Even downloading from the Internet Recovery doesn't work. When it gets nearer to the end of the download, it says that there is 8000 more hours of download time, and then shortly after that it crashes back to the Main Recovery Screen. It won't install it on the new Hard Drive, this is what it does on the USB stick of Mountain Lion.
Can anyone help me?

Do I still need two hard drives for video editing today?

I have heard time and time again that editors should use two hard drives when editing in Final Cut Pro, it was even written in part of the Final Cut Pro 7 user manual. One was used for the system and Final Cut Pro software and the other was used for storing video.
Is this still true with the newer SSDs available today? Since they do not use a rotating disk, can't my video and Final Cut Pro X work to maximum performance? Or is it still a bad idea to have your video and software on the same drive?
I would be curious to what some have to say and thank you in advance for your help.

Will it work on one drive ?.. in short Yes. Will it work well when I start doing multiclips with lost of angles and a separate track all being ingressed from HDV and wav? .. I suspect not so well .. You see the bottom line is that you are correct in so far as SSD's have no moving parts but the input/out speed (I/O) is not all that fantastic. Multiple video streams when doing multicam (for example) will cause a huge data quantity needed at fast speeds to be shipped back and forth .. SSD's are fast at boot up but after that the there is not all that between them and ESATAII internal drives (I have four ESATAII in my Mac Pro)..
Best practice advice is to have a fast separate drive, preferably connected via Thunderbolt or FW800. The whole thing just works more efficiently and - better. All in all I would say yes if you can afford it and are going to be doing lots of editing which gets more advanced you will not regret the second drive investment.
Jim

Two hard drive configuration help Windows 7 + Mac

Hi everyone,
So I'm planning on upgrading my early 2011 Macbook Pro 15 by adding an SSD at the expense of the optical drive. Basically, what I would like to do is to replace the current HDD with the new SSD and replace the optical drive with the HDD mounted onto an optical caddy.
In summary:
SSD (main HDD bay) - Mac OS Mountain Lion and Windows 7 + a few Mac/Windows applications
HDD (optical bay) - Mac OS and Windows data files and programs
This is possible? If so, how would I go about doing this?
Cheers!

Hi, I have a 13" mac pro (mid 2012) with a 500GB Apple hard drive. I removed the optical drive and installed a drive adapter with a new SSD (500GB). So to confirm, I have: SSD (optical bay), and HD (main bay). I also wanted Windows via bootcamp on my machine and of course I wanted both it and my Mac OS (Mavericks) on the new SSD (to benefit from the faster drive). Installation of Mavericks on the SSD was no problem, but Bootcamp/Windows installation constantly stalls at a black screen with flashing white cursor in the top left corner.
The breakthrough came when I tried removing the original Apple hard drive from the main bay. With only the SSD (running Mavericks) present in the opti-bay I was able to complete the installation of Windows/Bootcamp on my SSD. Great right?
Yes and no. It's great to have both OSs running on a snappy SSD, but when I re-install the Apple HD in the main bay Windows once again stalls at the black screen with the flashing white cursor in the top left corner.
I thought the problem might be that the computer was getting confused by having two disks each with two OSs (even though holding the Option key from start up brought me to the Boot menu where I was able to choose my OS of choice). So I wiped the Apple HD clean, essentially making it a storage hard drive, no OSs on it. Still wouldn't start up Windows (stalling at the black screen with flashing white cursor). BTW Mavericks will boot from the boot menu, just not Windows. So james1607 it's definitely possible to install Mac OS and Windows on the same SSD but so far my experience says the 2nd drive just confuses the computer re: starting up Windows.
Removing the Apple HD from the main bay solves the issue, but that's very unsatisfying. I want to use my Apple HD as extra storage in my computer not have it gather dust on my bookshelf.
Obviously the Mac Pro is getting confused by having two hard drives present (when trying to start Windows). But why? Anyone out there with similar problem? Solutions? Thanks in advance!

How can I split a backup on two hard drives with Time Machine ?

Back-up of my Imac with time machine is 1,3 TB. I have two 1 TB external hard drives but even if I had both as available in Time machine, it seems it doesn't allow to split the backup between the two hard drives. Any way to resolve this without buying another hard drive with more space?
Thanks in advance

You cannot directly split a backup. Your only option would be to open the TimeMachine preferences from System Prefs. and add things to the exclusion list for one of the backups. Then, when you go to do the other backup you would reverse the process and add everything else to the exclusion list and remove the things you had on there in the first place.
Seems fairly intensive though when you could just go and buy a 2 or 3TB external drive and do it all in one...Black Friday is coming up
Regards,

Computer is balky random freezes across apps. Two hard drive cleans later (their scan reveals no hard drive problems) photo shop won't work at all, magic touch mouse inoperable and their diagnoses is corrupted data? Anybody heard of this?

Computer is balky random freezes across apps. Two hard drive cleans later (their scan reveals no hard drive problems) photo shop won't work at all, magic touch mouse inoperable and their diagnoses is corrupted data? Anybody heard of this?

Well, yes, data does get corrupted sometimes.
The trick is finding what data.
By 'cleaned' are you therefor meaning that the drive has been erased and the system re-installed?
Because that's the quickest way to deal with such a situation.
Back up the system first of course,
Add back 3rd party apps one at a time in case one of them is causing the problem.

HT1386 Ever since I had to replace my PC hard drive, my outlook contacts and calendar no longer sync. It acts like it's syncing, but it isn't. I now have two hard drives - c and g, but I'm pretty sure the Outlook data is still on c. Any other ideas?

Hello - I just had to replace the hard drive on my pc, and now my Outlook calendar and contacts won't sync to my iphone 5s. I ended up getting two hard drives (C and G), so I'm afraid that might have something to do with it - although I'm pretty sure Outlook files still live in the normal place on C. Itunes sync acts as if it's working, but nothing changes on my phone. Any ideas? Thanks!!

"2MEM/1/4: DIMM3/J14"
Replace the memory in the DIMM 3 slot.
If you are running Mac OS X 10.5 you can use this program to test your G5's memory:
http://www.kelleycomputing.net/Rember/
It will subject your RAM to a more thorough test than Apple Hardware Test.

I have two hard drives on my mac 10.5.8 power pc and hear the clickking sounds of the first hard drive and think that it may be dying, can I install everything on the other hard drive also and wait for the first drvie to die before i use the other drives

I have two hard drives on my mac 10.5.8 power pc and hear the clickking sounds of the first hard drive and think that it may be dying, can I install everything on the other hard drive also and wait for the first drive to die before i use the other drives? Or, what is the best way to handle this?

I do not know what you are waiting for.
I'd make a backup of your important stuff before cloning the entire disk.
Carbon Copy Cloner will copy your startup drive to an external firewire drive. You can boot from the external drive to verify that you have a good clone. When you upgrade your existing startup drive, you can at any time boot from your external drive and go back to your existing system.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

Two hard drives

I have two hard drives. One is meant to be a backup drive. The problem is that my catalogue is getting half the pictures from one drive and half from the other. How can I make it get all files from one drive? I am using LR4.

Move the files from the backup disk to the main disk. I recommend doing this using the OS Move command or dragging and ropping rather than Lr as it has a habit of loosing the files if the application happens to crash during the move. Also, the OS will leave a copy of the original on the backup until you manually delete it. After moving the files (really a copy) you can use the method described in following tutorial to relink to them in Lightroom http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm (see section titled 'Updating Folder Location'.

Two hard drives connected to Airport Extreme. How to include one of them in TimeMachine Backup and use other disc as Time Machine backup disc?

Hi,
the title says it all. I've got an airport extreme and two hard drives connected to it. My idea was to use one as my additional storage (say DISC STORAGE) and the other one as my backup drive (say DISC BACKUP). I would like to backup my mac AND DISC STORAGE together to DISC BACKUP using time machine. My mac has 256 GB HDD, DISC STORAGE is 1 TB big, DISC BACKUP 2 TB. So there are no space issues.
Problem: DISC STORAGE is not included in Time Machine's backup to DISC BACKUP. At the moment, only the mac is backed up to DISC BACKUP.
Does anybody know if and how I can include DISC STORAGE in the backup process?
By the way, DISC STORAGE is not listed in the "exclude from backup" list in Time Machine.
Thanks!
Arne

Unforrtunately, Time Machine cannot backup from a network drive to another drive. Time Machine will only backup a Mac and a drive that is directly attached to the Mac, via USB or FireWire.
You will need to use an application like Carbon Copy Cloner or SupoerDuper to be able to backup from DISC BACKUP to DISC STORAGE.

Two Hard Drives on my computer - one totally full the other totally empty - how do I manage this - windows 8

Hi I have two hard drives on my computer running Windows 8. One is called OS (C:) and has 10.2GB free of 186GB, the other is Data (D:) and has 258GB of 258GB free.
I have just tried to update to Windows 8.1 and have had an error message saying there is not enough space on the OS drive to update as it needs 20GB.
What do I do about this? how do I get to use the 258GB of free space on the Data drive?
I'd be grateful for an answer!

Hi,
In addition to the above information,
If your operating system is Windows 2008 and higher(Server) or Windows Vista and higher(Client).
Then you can use the native tool Disk Management to solve your requirement.
For opening Disk Management, Right click -> Computer -> Select Manage -> As result Computer Management console opens -> In the left pane under storage select Disk Management.
In the Disk Management, for extending your C: drive,
- Since your partition layout as, C: drive | D: drive.
- After shrinking D: drive, the layout will be C: drive | D: drive | Unallocated space.
- Since the unallocated space is not contiguous, when you right-click C: drive the "Extend Volume" option will be greyed out.
- So to solve your requirement, you have to backup the data on D: drive -> Delete D: drive -> right-click on the c drive and select "Extend Volume" -> enter the size you want to add
- Finally you can create a new D: drive from the remaining unallocated space and restore the backup data.
Checkout the below thread on similar discussion,
how
to increase space in c drive
Regards,
Gopi
JiJi Technologies

Backing up two hard drives

I was using Time Machine to back up the hard drive on my desk top and to back up an external hard drive that contains all of my video work. I erased the hard drive containing the backups and excluded all other hard drives except for the hard drive on the desk top (Hard Drive A) and the one with my video stuffs (Hard Drive B). Before, A & B would show up on the external containing the backups. But now, it looks like only A is showing up. I did a rough calculation and it looks like the initial backup included both hard drives. Why aren't the two hard drives showing up separately?

They should, but it depends on how you get into TM and whether you can navigate once you're there.
See #E3 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

Migration two hard drives

I tried migrating to my new macbook from a g4 tower with two hard drives. When I hook the fire wire up it only sees the non startup disk and will not see the startup disk on the g4 all my music and photos are on the startup disk which is what I wish to migrate. How do I get the macbook to see the startup disk on the g4?

That's really not an iTunes question, so this probably isn't the best place to ask.
Answering quickly, though, Fireware Target Disk Mode only will show the drive that the Master on the ATA bus, regardless of which drive is set as the boot. So if your boot drive is a Slave, it won't show; you'll have to switch the drives around on the ATA bus.
For further assistance, please take this up in the appropriate PowerMac G4 forum.
Regards.

Two hard drives on MB Pro 15"

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