Connecting to a 27 iMac 2020 computer. iMac Lynda, this might help. It's another thread on this same subject from 2017. WD External Drive is Read Only? - Apple Community Dec 31, 2022 4:36 PM in response to Randall_2023 Yes, that was what I as using. I ran First aid and it said...
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...
What you need to reformat Macbook Pro (this post) Back up your Macbook hard drive with Time Machine Create an OS X Mavericks boot drive Create an OS X Yosemite boot drive Create a MacOS Sierra boot drive Erase Macbook Pro hard drive securely Reinstall OS X Mavericks with boot drive Reins...
Please kindly advise what I shall do next in terms of : which hard drive, or image, to select to erase which file system I shall choose for formatting (APFS or Mac OS Extended [Journaled]) ? My iMac info is: iMac, renina 4k, 21.5-inch, late 2015 macOS Catalina ver 10.15 1.02 TB ...
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 ar...
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...
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...