Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Very expensive for me. because i need more than 5 TB > On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:43 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > > Well, let me do a little searching around. Btw, apple iCloud has various > storage plans available, but they can start getting expensive. I pay $3 > monthly for 128 GB of online storage.

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-23 Thread Eric Oyen
Well, let me do a little searching around. Btw, apple iCloud has various storage plans available, but they can start getting expensive. I pay $3 monthly for 128 GB of online storage. I think they have plans up to a terabyte or so, but I haven’t looked recently. > On Oct 23, 2018, at 4:33 AM,

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-23 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi: I decided to subscribe on the amazon unlemeted storage, but it’s over, it’s not available write now. am so ssad. > On Oct 22, 2018, at 4:03 PM, Matt wrote: > > Have you looked at backblaze? > > Its $5.00 for unlimited storage a month. > > On 10/22/2018 7:44 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: >>

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-22 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Ok, ok, but as i was asking, will it just check my data on different hard drives and compare them or what? > On Oct 22, 2018, at 4:03 PM, Matt wrote: > > Have you looked at backblaze? > > Its $5.00 for unlimited storage a month. > > On 10/22/2018 7:44 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: >> Aha, but

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-22 Thread Matt
Have you looked at backblaze? Its $5.00 for unlimited storage a month. On 10/22/2018 7:44 AM, Ramy Moustafa wrote: Aha, but how will i deal with chinees interface? \ \also, is it like DRopbox, which it will compare my data and the old data? am looking now for a good backup apps or websites

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-22 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Aha, but how will i deal with chinees interface? \ \also, is it like DRopbox, which it will compare my data and the old data? am looking now for a good backup apps or websites that can do this thing. It’s so frustrated to copy all my data again and again, all i need is somehting that will look

RE: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-22 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger. Ouch. That sucks and if your drive is that full, getting an online backup solution that is cheap won’t be easy. However, you might want to check out these guys (note, the site where you sign up would be in Chinese

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-22 Thread Eric Oyen
Ouch. That sucks and if your drive is that full, getting an online backup solution that is cheap won’t be easy. However, you might want to check out these guys (note, the site where you sign up would be in Chinese, but the procedure is quite detailed):

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
WIsh everything will be ok soon thanks so much for helping > On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:22 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Formatting it to MacOS Extended (Journealed) is the best if you're only going > to be using it with a Mac. Sometimes, there are just hardware

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-21 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Formatting it to MacOS Extended (Journealed) is the best if you're only going to be using it with a Mac. Sometimes, there are just hardware problems in the mass manufacturing of things. I don't think that you did anything wrong, it's just an unlucky fluke. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi tim: Hope it will be the 2nd :D will gona copy all my data. but strange that this HD is very new, i bought it just from 3 weeks. but before formatting,i formatted it extended journaled, is it good, or i must choose another kind of formatting? thanks in advance > On Oct 21, 2018, at 5:04

Re: Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-21 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, This can be caused by either hardware failure of the drive itself, or corrupted formatting that causes bad sectors on the drive. In the first case, you are usually out of luck and cannot recover data, other than bits and pieces. In the second case, do as they say. Get yourself a second

Urgent help please, my External Hd is in danger.

2018-10-21 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi all my friends: I got a new Seegate HD. after 2 or 3 weeks. when opening my mac, i got a message that my Seegate Hd can not be scaned, i will not be able to save or copy on it, but still can access my data. it asked me to take a backup from it very soon. and reformat My HD. i went to disk

Re: Regarding download speeds from external HD and other stuff with new MBP

2015-05-22 Thread Shaf
You really shouldn't be booting from an external drive unless you really have to. Download speeds probably have something to do with your external HD speed. Regarding freezing, I don't know but it could be a corrupted sector on your external drive. On 5/22/2015 11:40 PM, KJSC radio wrote

Regarding download speeds from external HD and other stuff with new MBP

2015-05-22 Thread KJSC radio
doing that. 3. If anyone are familiar with nicecast and DJay, I’m having a problem both on internal and on the external HD of when I start broadcasting without DJay pro opened it sends the data through but when I stop broadcasting, and open up Djay and hit start broadcast again, it will not even

Re: how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-07 Thread jeff `greene
...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have a 2 gb external hd which is now one big partition, its mac os x extended journal format. I want to preserve part of it for data storage and use a 250gb part for carbon opy cloner. What is the best way to go about this? thanks, Greetings, Anouk

Re: how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
than the current size. Then apply the change. Now, you’ll have dead space on your external HD. Press the Add Partition button and you can have this new partition use up the unallocated space on the HD. Thus, two partitions, and no need to copy data off the HD and totally reformat the drive

how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-06 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I have a 2 gb external hd which is now one big partition, its mac os x extended journal format. I want to preserve part of it for data storage and use a 250gb part for carbon opy cloner. What is the best way to go about this? thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received

Booting from an External HD

2012-10-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, guys! Right arrow twice worked perfectly. NIc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HD but never to my external HD. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my external HD's connectivity or I'm just missing it each time, so want to try and make sure I'm doing the right thing. And, yes, just to be clear, I do have a bootable duplicate of my Mac on its very own partition on my

Re: Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
USB HD connected to my Mac, and it is the only external device I have connected, which arrow keys and how many times must I press them after I have held down the option key at start up? So far I keep managing to boot to the recovery partition or to my Macintosh HD but never to my external HD

Re: Booting from an External HD

2012-10-20 Thread Tim Kilburn
to boot to the recovery partition or to my Macintosh HD but never to my external HD. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my external HD's connectivity or I'm just missing it each time, so want to try and make sure I'm doing the right thing. And, yes, just to be clear, I do have

Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my external drive, it was fairly simple. I just held down the option key as I turned on my macbook, waited about 15 seconds, released the option key, pressed right arrow and enter. Now that I have done a clean install of

Re: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Yep. Try pressing the left arrow rather than the right one. Works all the time. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello

RE: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
Jr Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:38 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Booting from an external HD in lion Yep. Try pressing the left arrow rather than the right one. Works all the time. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user

Re: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
The right arrow will boot in to the lion recovery, try the left arrow instead, that's what I use and it works. On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my external drive, it was fairly simple. I just held down

RE: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Booting from an external HD in lion The right arrow will boot in to the lion recovery, try the left arrow instead, that's what I use and it works. On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to make a hole in vmware, by simply sharing the root of the drive on the mac side. Go to fusion and then into settings, sharing. There, you can designate a folder or any drive for that matter, to become

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-30 Thread anouk radix
Bedankt, thanks for that tip. I thought it might work this way but for some reason did not udnerstand the two way process of sharing folders. Greetings, Anouk, Op 30-8-2011 21:44, Paul Erkens schreef: Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to

RE: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, According to the following link, you can write to NTFS volumes under Mac OS X after you install a driver: http://www.all-about-apple.com/read-and-write-to-a-ntfs-formatted-windows-drive-in-mac-os-x.html This article was written prior to Lion, so I don't know if Lion changed anything.

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-29 Thread Vaughn Bennison
Hi, I have been using Tuxera NTFS (don't know if I've spelled it correctly), but it doesn't yet appear to work under lion. I think they're working on it though. Vaughn. On 29/08/2011, at 8:50 PM, Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, According to the following link, you can write to NTFS volumes under

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, when it is formatted in ExFAT you are able to read and write in Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows 7. All the best Jürgen Am 28.08.2011 um 04:25 schrieb erik burggraaf: Mac OS can read NTFS, but it can't write to them. If you want full access to the drive it needs to be FAT32, although, I've

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread anouk radix
Cool! I will have to test asap if writing to ntfs really works from mac osx, that would be nice indeed. I wont be able to encrypt the disk then but it does not really have much sensitive data on it anyway. Greetings, Anouk, Op 28-8-2011 22:55, Jürgen Fleger schreef: Hi, when it is formatted

RE: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Miller
] On Behalf Of anouk radix Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:50 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion Cool! I will have to test asap if writing to ntfs really works from mac osx, that would be nice indeed. I wont be able to encrypt the disk then but it does

reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread anouk radix
Hi everyone, I have a 1.5tb external drive that has been formatted into ntfs and is 1/4 full with ebooks audiobooks radiodramatv series music etc etc. However when my mac arrives I am planning to go over to that entirely and only use windows for training courses. But, can lion read ntfs

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread james walton
You can read it but not write to it On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:21 PM, anouk radix radix.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have a 1.5tb external drive that has been formatted into ntfs and is 1/4 full with ebooks audiobooks radiodramatv series music etc etc. However when my mac arrives I am

Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread erik burggraaf
Mac OS can read NTFS, but it can't write to them. If you want full access to the drive it needs to be FAT32, although, I've got a 2TB external formatted FAT32 here so I can share it between mac and windows, and I'm not very happy with the performance. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony

external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread anouk radix
Hi Erik, eventually I want to convert the disk to extended journal encrypted but i guess I would have to format it for that and loose al the data so that will have to wait. Do you have any idea if it is possible topatch such a drive into vmware fusion so that I can then read it in windows Op

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread erik burggraaf
No, as far as I know, windows won't read any extended file systems, although I seem to remember playing with some sketchy driver packages that would let you read an ext1 or ext2 linux formatted drive on windows XP. You might try googling but I don't remember having any luck when I was playing

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread anouk radix
Hi, Yeah I know windows cant doit natively but I thought there might be possible something through vmware and virtual windows because vmware has drivers for a lot of stuff and is itself a mac application, or throug sharing folders but now I seem to remember that that only works from vmware

External HD

2010-08-07 Thread AndyBaracco
i just realized that I posted this inquiry to the wrong list. it happens when you have been up since 4:15 AM. i am considering buying a mac. I have a Seagate 1 TB external USB HD that is about 3 quarters full of audio books, music, etc. it is formatted NTFS. Could i use this HD on a Mac, and

Re: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Justin Kauflin
The Mac can read NTFS partitions, but out of the box, it can't write to them. With that said, it'd probably best if you were able to reformat the disc to the Mac format. In my opinion, go head and get another 1TB drive, as they just keep getting cheaper and cheaper, and have that Mac

Re: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Was going to suggest the same thing, since storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, even though there are ways that you could get a mac to both read and write to NTFS formatted drives. On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: The Mac can read NTFS partitions, but out of the box, it

RE: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External HD Was going to suggest the same thing, since storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, even though there are ways that you could get a mac to both read and write to NTFS formatted drives. On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: The Mac can