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Hard drive is important piece of the pie. Clean old installed modules and apps from specific locationsįile System Repair needs to be run from different boot drive or DVD.

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As such, Mac OS X’s RAM, virtual memoryĪnd caches can become full and fragmented.

Multiple apps, opened and closed regularly/ daily

Unix was built for apps to start up and run for months or even years.

Skip external drives and unnecessary folders Leopard tip: iChat messages are “Mail” now, not “Documents” Lets you edit Startup Items *and* Plug-ins, including QuickTime, Internet, Sounds, FontsĬhoose only those data types that you search, disable the restĭoesn’t change indexing, but does change results Google what you don’t know before removing

Prep your Mac - and yourself - for the day when disaster *does* strike.

You probably don’t use everything on your Mac.

The more stuff you have on your Mac, the more space it takes up.

Goal is to keep a machine running safe and sound so you can get your work done.

Not focused on pushing your Mac to its limits.

Preventative steps to take before problems hit.

I think it can scour for files on drives with totally borked directories.Running Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean with Dave Hamilton (by the way, please get a survey form before we start) I have only needed it once, (had a physically failing drive, did the freezer trick, and since I figured I had one pass at it at best, used DR II to grab the most important user files) but it did the trick. I've had much less need for DiskWarrior since that point, but that way, DW and Disk Utility will be able to repair any future directory problems should they crop up, and it's not hardware-related.Īnother good program to keep around if you've got mission-critical data that's worth money is Data Rescue II.

Since the advent of journaling in OS 10.3, the file system has been pretty robust - journaling basically is the OS telling itself what it's about to do, and what it just did when writing files to disk, in case of a screw-up, like a power failure, or a corrupt file. If the data is not important (if it's just a backup) then just reformat it HFS+ (Journaled).

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Yeah, if the data on the drive is important, copy in to a PC for safe-keeping, then re-format the drive from the Mac. Posted by scalefree at 5:01 PM on April 25, 2009 TestDisk & Drive Genius 2 are two that I know of that can handle FAT32, although I believe Drive Genius at least needs an extra disk to dump your files to. There are programs that recover FAT32 drives under OSX Disk Warrior is not one of them. As others have pointed out your drive is probably formatted as FAT32. If you're unlucky the drive is corrupted & you need to do a recovery on it.

Close the terminal window & plug the disk in, it should automount & you're all fixed.

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You'll be prompted for the admin password enter it & hit return. Make sure you don't type the name of your system drive or you'll wipe your whole computer clean.

If your external drive is disconnected but there's still an entry for it you need to delete that entry with the following command: sudo rm -rf " drivename"substituting the name of the disk for drivename. To clear them out (with the drive disconnected) open up a terminal window & type the following: cd /Volumes lsYou should get back a listing of all mounted drives one for the internal hard drive & one for each connected external disk.

If you're lucky the problem is that the mount point just has some folders & files written over it. There are two possibilities, one good & one bad. I've had similar problems with my MacBook & multiple USB drives. Please help! posted by veryhappyheidi to Technology (16 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite

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(One forum said you can click and force it to manually mount the drive, but I can't figure out how to do that.) I also installed Disk Warrior, which recognizes the hard drive, but says "The directory cannot be rebuilt, the file system is unsupported." There are bullets under that that say " This disk is not a Macintosh disk This disk does not appear on the desktop This disk is 465.75GB in size."Įvery similar problem I've read about (including this one) turns out to be either hardware or fixable by Disk Warrior. I'm 99.9% sure that all the hardware is fine- it still works on the PC, and lights and spins when I plug it in- and when I go into the System Profiler, the USB says that my external hard drive is attached. When I plugged it back in, the hard drive would not pop up on the desktop. I don't remember ever formatting it, it just worked on both as soon as I plugged it in.Ī few days back, the hard drive accidentally unplugged from my mac (aka, I did not eject it).

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I have an WD 500gig My Book external hard drive that I use on both my macbook pro (running Mac OS X 10.4.11) and PC. Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to macs, but would consider myself a competent user.