formatting external hard drive to imac I recently bought a new iMac and am trying to use a Seagate Ultra Touch 2T external hard drive to use with Time Machine. After spending more than an hour on the phone with Apple Care, it was determined that the Seagate external hard drive was read ...
Erase hard drive This is a late 2012 imac running OS Catalina. It boots but doesn't do much else. I want to initialize the hard drive so I can recycle it to a school that teaches how to work on computers. When I use disk utility to erase the disk, I get this message. I have r...
Imac update to El Capitan was successful in order to use Malwarebytes but the pkg is not recognizing the OS I put the Malwarebytes pkg on a thumb drive from my laptop and tried to install Malwarebytes to my old Imac which I just upgraded to El Capitan as required. For some reason its n...
WD My Passport drive crashes 2015 iMac I have been using the 2TB drive with no issues for a couple of years, when yesterday I found that the drive crashes the computer immediately upon restart or plugging it in... Normally I would say, "oh well, bad drive"...but I plugged it in to...
All OS X boot hard drives (not Solid State Disks) should be futher erased with the Security Option: Zero All Data or move the slider one spot to the right, this has a effect of wiping all data off the drive and also eliminates bad sector issues that can prevent a drive from formatting...
External hard drive disk error Hello. After installing Catalina from Sierra operating system onto my desktop iMac, noticing issues with all (4) Lacie Porsche External Hard drives - Format: Mac os Extended (Journaled). They do mount and when opened everything works fine, however, in disk utilit...
I have my iTunes folder on another hard drive. When I reformat, I'll open iTunes and change the path to the folder on the other hard drive. I'll then close iTunes and then hold the "option" key. A window asking me to specify the path appears and once I specify, all of the ...
I'm waiting for my new iMac to arrive and plan to use the backup from the afore mentioned external to migrate. How can I ensure there won't be a problem? 3 years ago 672 3 Time machine won't work to install a back-up on new disk drive in old laptop I had a fatal hard-...